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Soft Targets and Crowded Places (ST-CP)
Mass Shooting Prevention and Research Library (MSPRL)
Cookie Policy
Soft Targets and Crowded Places (ST-CP) makes only a very minimal use of cookies. For informational purposes and for compatibility and regulatory reasons we do have an detailed Cookies Policy as follows:
This page applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States.
1. Introduction: Soft Targets and Crowded Places (ST-CP), (hereinafter: “the Website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies can also be placed by third parties who we engage.
2. What Are Cookies? A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of a website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein is returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What Are Scripts? A script is a piece of program code that is used to make a website function properly and/or interactively. This code is executed on the server or on your device.
4. What is a Web Beacon? A Web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies:
5.1 Functional and Technical Cookies: Functional and technical cookies are necessary to ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional and technical cookies, it can be easier for you to visit a website. For instance, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting a website. Likewise, in the case of orders placed or shopping, items remain in your bag or cart until you have paid for them. Functional and technical cookies are sometimes placed without your consent.
5.2 Statistics Cookies: Websites use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for users. With these statistics cookies websites get insights in the usage of their websites.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking Cookies: Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.4 Social Media Buttons: Many websites (including ours) have included buttons for Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), and dozens of other social media networks. These buttons work using pieces of code originating from the social media networks themselves. This code places cookies. Use of these social media network buttons allow certain information to be stored and processed so things like showing personalized advertisements is possible (this website does not allow advertising).
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your personal data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible.
6. Placed Cookies This website may place the following cookies:
—WordPress (Functional)
—Kadence Blocks (Functional)
—GoDaddy (Functional)
—Simple Membership (Functional)
—Facebook (Functional and Marketing/Tracking)
—X (Formerly Twitter) (Functional and Marketing/Tracking)
7. Consent: You have the right to opt-out and/or to object to the use of all non-functional cookies. To do either or both you would contact us. You can also disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that some website functions may no longer work properly.
8. Your Rights With Respect to Personal Data: You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
—You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you.
—You may object to the processing.
—You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
—You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant.
—You may request to restrict the processing of the data.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.
9. Enabling/Disabling and Deleting Cookies: You can use your Internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the applicable browser instructions.
10. Contact Details: For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy, please contact us.