Cookie Policy

Cookie use in our online stores.

Catholics With Attitude's online retailing functions are performed on our behalf by Spreadshirt.

For the reason of improving Spreadshirt’s online service, the commonly-named system of ‘Cookies’ are used. Cookies are text files, which are stored on a users computer when they visit a website. Cookies are used either once or over a longer period of time to use a user’s recurring attitudes within the Spreadshirt site to their benefit – in terms of personalising the Spreadshirt online experience and its functions and tools towards individual user’s needs. The text files contain no address data (i.e. user’s names and E-Mail data) or other personal information. Spreadshirt will not link data found in these text files with other data sources. Cookies serve to further our analysis of web-page usage and enables us to make our service more user-friendly; more effective and safer.

In terms of the data collected within its online service, Spreadshirt works together with Omniture, Inc., 550 East Timpanogos Circle, Orem, Utah 84097 (Omniture). Omniture use cookies and web-beacons (small graphics implanted into websites that make log-file recording and analysis possible). The acquisition and processing of data is purely for statistical purposes and serve for the improvement of Spreadshirt’s online service. Only data that is not linked to the original user is collected and used.

User profiles (using false pseudonyms) may be provided for the purpose of advertisement to marketing-studies or for organising the meeting of demand within our online service, should the user not object. Users can opt-out of their information being used at any time by deactivating this function within their Spreadshirt user account, or by requesting deactivation via email ([email protected]). The user-profile will in no circumstances, be linked with the data regarding the ‘pseudonym’.

Use of Cookies in other areas.

In other areas of our web site up, such as our corporate site, we, from time to time use ‘Google Analytics’ – an analysis service given by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA (Google). 

Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’. The information given by the cookies regarding the usage of shops is not personal and is sent to, and stored by a Google server in the USA. Google uses this information on behalf of the shop-owner in order to evaluate the visits to the shop; to create activity reports and compile further information connected to the usage of the shop and internet services. Google will transmit this information to third parties as far as statutory or lawful or with the prior consent of the user. Google will in no circumstances, link this information with other data they hold.

Deactivation of Cookies

Users can set their web browser to halt the storage of the data files known as Cookies. In some cases this can lead to certain services and website functions to become unusable.

User Rights to Access to Personal Information

Visitors and users of Spreadshirt’s web page can request (free of charge) access to any information held about them and its origin; any recipients of their data and the reason for the storage of such data. Please email [email protected] for more details.