Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website sends to your web browser and stores on your device when you visit our site. It's used to remember certain information about you, such as your preferences or login details, so we can provide you with a better user experience.

Why do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies for several reasons:

• To enable us to recognize you when you return to our website and personalize the content displayed to you
• To gather information on how users interact with our site and improve its performance
• To remember your preferences, such as language or currency selection

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for our website to function properly. They include:

• Session IDs: These ensure that multiple requests from the same browser session come from a single user identity.
• Authentication tokens: These verify your login credentials when you log in.

These cookies do not require consent, as they're essential for providing the services we offer on our website.

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary and deleted once you close your web browser. They help us to:

• Remember items added to your shopping basket
• Keep track of which pages you've visited while navigating our site

Since these cookies are deleted when you exit your browser, they're considered non-intrusive and don't require explicit consent.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device until a certain expiration date or time. We use them for:

• Storing preferences such as language selection
• Remembering login credentials (only if explicitly requested)

You can manage these cookies through our preference center, which we'll describe later in this policy.

Functional Cookies

We also employ functional cookies to enhance your browsing experience on our site, including features like cart saving and remembering items you've searched for. These help us:

• Remember the contents of your shopping basket
• Save time by pre-filling fields with data from a previous session

To opt-out or adjust these settings, please visit our preference center.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We gather certain types of information to monitor how users interact with our site using analytics tools. The primary purpose is to:

• Track page views
• Monitor user engagement metrics (e.g., bounce rates)
• Understand navigation paths

While we're not responsible for third-party cookie management, you can learn more about individual providers' policies on their websites.

Preference and Language Settings

We offer several ways for users to set preferences that affect our website's functionality:

• Selecting languages
• Defining currency or units of measurement
• Choosing data display formats

These choices help us tailor the content displayed according to your personal settings. We also provide a preference center where you can manage these settings directly.

Login/Session Continuity

We implement secure login mechanisms that utilize session cookies for persistence between requests during a single browser session. These are essential for ensuring seamless navigation and functionality on our site.

If you choose the option of remembering login credentials, we use persistent cookies to save your username and password information locally in your web browser.

Device Recognition

Some analytics services may involve collecting device identifiers or IP addresses as part of their collection processes. This helps us better understand how users access our website from various devices. For more details on these practices, please refer to the specific providers' websites.

Security-Related Cookies

To improve security and reduce potential vulnerabilities:

• Secure token cookies: These help verify authenticity during user logins.
• CSRF tokens: They provide protection against cross-site request forgery attacks by verifying that requests come from your account session.

These measures enhance overall safety on our website without compromising the functionality we offer to users.

Browser Storage Technologies

Modern web browsers often allow you to store data locally using a range of APIs, including local storage and indexed DBs. Some websites use this capability for storing information such as login credentials or shopping cart contents when cookies are not available (more on these cases below).

However, our main method of tracking your session state is via server-side authentication and access tokens stored in session cookies.

Third-Party Integrations

We may integrate various third-party services to improve functionality or performance. These can range from analytics platforms like Google Analytics to marketing tools for retargeting ads based on browsing behavior:

• Please note that these companies are responsible for their own cookie policies, which they should outline clearly within the scope of GDPR.
• For an exhaustive list of integrated parties and related data collection practices, we suggest consulting their respective websites.

Marketing or Communication Preferences

On our site, users have the ability to opt-out from tracking by adjusting preferences:

• Blocking marketing communications
• Unsubscribing from promotional emails

Keep in mind that managing these preferences will also affect any cookie-related functionality provided through such integrations mentioned earlier (for example Google Analytics).

Cookie Consent Management

We respect your decision regarding cookies and do not use mechanisms designed to bypass consent. You can manage our site's usage of cookies by adjusting browser settings or using built-in features like Incognito mode, as discussed below.

For those requiring it, we also provide an opt-out mechanism directly on our website through a dedicated preference center where you can control the types of cookies accepted and declined:

• Clear preferences button: This resets your current cookie consent settings to default.
• Accept all cookies: Allows us to store any type of cookie for optimal user experience.
• Custom Cookie Control Panel

Browser Controls

Each web browser has built-in tools that allow users to manage their experience with cookies, such as clearing or deleting them when desired:

• Internet Explorer: Tools/Options > Privacy
• Google Chrome: Settings > Advanced (scroll down)
• Safari: Preferences > Security

Keep in mind these steps may vary depending on your operating system and browser versions used.

Impact When Cookies are Disabled

Cookies play a vital role in how we operate our site. Some key areas affected by disabling cookies include:

• Shopping experience: We save items added to your basket using session cookies.
• Authentication: Remembering login details relies heavily on persistent storage within these files (depending on whether the user selected 'remember me').
• Personalization: Customizing content for specific users often depends on their saved preferences stored in cookies.

Disabling or removing all types of our site's cookies will likely limit your interaction with various features designed to personalize and enhance the browsing experience.