Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on our website, the choices you have regarding their use, and how you can manage your preferences at any time. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains in more detail how we collect, use, and protect your personal data.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites function properly, to improve your browsing experience, and to provide information to the website owner. Cookies may be set directly by us ("first-party cookies") or by third-party services we work with, such as analytics or advertising providers ("third-party cookies").
In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, or local storage, which work in a comparable way and are covered by this policy under the general term "cookies."
2. Categories of Cookies We Use
Depending on their purpose, the cookies used on our store fall into the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for our store to operate correctly. They enable core functions such as maintaining your shopping cart, allowing secure login, remembering items you have added to checkout, and protecting the site against fraud and abuse. Because they are essential to the functioning of the service, these cookies do not require your consent and cannot be switched off through our cookie settings.
- Functional cookies: these cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as your preferred language, region, or currency, in order to provide a more personalized and convenient shopping experience.
- Analytics cookies: these cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our store, for example which pages are viewed most often and how visitors navigate through the site. This information helps us improve the performance, usability, and content of our store. Analytics cookies are only set with your prior consent.
- Marketing cookies: these cookies are used to display advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Marketing cookies are only set with your prior consent.
3. Your Consent and How to Manage It
When you visit our website for the first time, a cookie banner will ask for your consent before any non-essential cookies (functional, analytics, or marketing) are placed on your device. Strictly necessary cookies are excluded from this requirement, as explained above.
You are free to accept or decline non-essential cookies, and you may change or withdraw your consent at any time by returning to the cookie settings on our website. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before the withdrawal.
In addition to the controls we provide, most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings menu. 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 choose to block or delete strictly necessary cookies, some parts of our store, such as the shopping cart or checkout, may not function correctly.
4. How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Cookies remain on your device for different lengths of time depending on their type:
- Session cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser, until they either expire or are manually deleted by you through your browser settings.
5. Changes 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.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies on our store, please contact us at contact@fredombox.shop.