As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Functionality cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our services. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and access DesignDot information.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies are important for our website to get statistics, estimate audience size, gain insight into the use of our website and to help improve the services we provide to our users. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Third Parties Cookies

Third Parties We also work with third parties that provide services we use for promoting and maintaining our services. Some of these allow us to test and ensure that our services are performing well. Others measure the impact and performance of our advertising, or allow us to track referrals from our affiliates. Please read our partner's privacy policies (linked below) to ensure that you're comfortable with how they use cookies. We have also provided links to opt out of their services if you like and wherever applicable on about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Double Click

Overflow uses Google DoubleClick to measure the effectiveness of its online marketing campaigns.
How Google uses cookies in advertising
Opt-out of Double-click cookies

Facebook

Facebook provides certain site functionality, help us to place advertising on Facebook, and help us to track the performance of advertisements that we place on Facebook.
How Google uses cookies in advertising
Opt-out of Double-click cookies
Google Privacy Policy
How to Opt-out

Google Analytics

From time to time DesignDot services, including mobile apps, use Google Analytics. This is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate use of those services and compile a report for us.
Google Privacy Policy
How to Opt-out