Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which types our store uses, and how you can manage or withdraw your preferences at any time. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which describes in more detail how we handle personal data.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer, phone, or other device when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies let us recognize your device on return visits, remember your preferences, and understand how our store is being used so that we can keep improving it.
Similar technologies, such as pixels, local storage, and tags, may be used alongside cookies for the same general purposes. For simplicity, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as "cookies" in this policy.
2. Cookies We Use
We use different categories of cookies depending on their purpose. Some are essential for the store to function, while others are only placed with your permission.
- Strictly necessary cookies: These are required for our store to work correctly and cannot be switched off. They support core functions such as keeping items in your shopping cart, letting you log in to your account, remembering items in progress at checkout, and protecting the site against fraud and abuse. Because they are essential to providing the service you request, these cookies do not require your consent.
- Functional cookies: These remember choices you make so we can tailor your experience, such as your preferred language or region. They make your visit more convenient but are not strictly necessary for the store to operate.
- Analytics cookies: These help us understand how visitors interact with our website, for example which pages are visited most often, so we can measure and improve performance. Analytics cookies are set only with your consent.
- Marketing cookies: These are used to make advertising more relevant to you and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Marketing cookies are set only with your consent.
3. Your Consent and How to Change It
The first time you visit our website, a cookie banner asks for your consent before any non-essential cookies (functional, analytics, or marketing) are set on your device. Strictly necessary cookies are excluded from this consent requirement because the store cannot function properly without them.
You are in control of your preferences at all times. You can review, change, or withdraw your consent whenever you like through the cookie settings available on our site. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any use of cookies that took place before you withdrew it.
4. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
In addition to the choices offered through our cookie banner and settings, most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their own settings. You can typically choose to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies, or delete cookies that have already been stored on your device. Please note that if you block or delete cookies, some parts of our store, such as the shopping cart or checkout, may not work as intended.
Because the steps for managing cookies differ from browser to browser, we recommend checking the help section of your specific browser for detailed instructions.
5. How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Cookies fall into two categories based on how long they last:
- Session cookies: these are temporary and are automatically deleted once you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: these remain on your device after you close your browser, until they either expire or you delete them manually.
6. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us at contact@paracasa.store.