What are cookies?

“Cookies” are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.

They allow the website to recognize your device and remember if you have been to the website before.

Cookies are very common web technology – most websites use Cookies and have done for years. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, as well as providing information to the owners of websites.

Cookies are used to measure which parts of the website people visit and to customize your experience. Cookies also provide information that helps us monito and improve the website’s performance.

To find out more about Cookies, including how to see what Cookies have been set on your computer and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Refusing or withdrawing consent to the use of Cookies

If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’, ‘tool’, or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies, including strictly necessary Cookies (see below), you may not be able to access or use all or parts of the functionalities of the Party City websites.

If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Party City websites from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.

First and Third-party Cookies

“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Party City and that Party City places on your device. “Third-party Cookies” are Cookies that another party places on your device through the Party City website. Party City may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.

First-party Cookies

We use Cookies to enhance the performance of our website and personalize your online Party City experience.

Cookies help us to collect information on how people use our website and which pages they visit. They enable us to monitor the number of visitors and to analyze website usage patterns and trends.

We collect this information anonymously, so it does not identify anyone as an individual and no personal information is stored in our Cookies. We always use Cookie data in a responsible way.

Our aim is to continually improve the Party City online experience. Cookies help to make our website work better and more efficiently. However, you can stop Cookies from being downloaded to your device from Party City at any time by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. Most browsers will tell you how to change your browser settings to notify you when a Cookie is being set or updated, or to restrict or block certain types or all Cookies. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information or by visiting: www.allaboutcookies.org.

We use the following types of Cookies:

Persistent Cookies: We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Party City websites. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Party City websites. Persistent Cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically. Examples of persistent Cookies we use include: