COOKIE POLICY

Last updated: June 15, 2025

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the site owners. Cookies help us to remember your preferences, improve your Browse experience, and collect analytical data.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes, including:

  • Ensuring the proper functioning of our website.
  • Remembering your preferences and settings.
  • Analyzing how you use our website to improve its design and content.
  • Processing your e-commerce orders and managing your user account.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Our website uses the following types of cookies:

3.1. Strictly Necessary Cookies (Technical Cookies)

These cookies are essential for the website to function correctly. They enable core functionalities such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping carts or logging into secure areas, cannot be provided. These cookies do not require your consent.

  • Examples for Drupal 10 (general): Session cookies (e.g., for user authentication, maintaining shopping cart state), security cookies.
  • Purpose: User authentication, load balancing, e-commerce functionalities (e.g., adding items to cart, checkout process).

3.2. Analytical/Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they encounter error messages. They help us understand and improve how the website performs. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

  • Provider: Google Analytics (Google LLC)
  • Purpose: Website traffic analysis, understanding user behavior, performance monitoring.
  • Data collected: Anonymous IP addresses, pages visited, time spent on site, browser type, operating system.
  • Retention: [e.g., 26 months, or as configured in Google Analytics]

3.3. Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, like watching a video or commenting on a blog.

  • Examples for Drupal 10: Language preference cookies, user interface customization cookies.
  • Purpose: Remembering user settings and preferences to enhance the user experience.

3.4. Marketing/Targeting Cookies (if applicable, though less likely based on description)

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission.

  • (If applicable) Provider: [e.g., Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, if used]
  • Purpose: Targeted advertising, conversion tracking.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies for reporting usage statistics of the service, delivering advertisements on and through the service, and so on.

  • Stripe: As our payment processor, Stripe uses cookies to ensure the security of transactions and to prevent fraud. Their cookie policy is available on their website. We do not directly collect or store payment card details on our site.
  • Google Analytics: (as detailed above)
  • (Any other third-party services like social media embeds, external video players, etc.): [Name of service]

Please note that we have no control over third-party cookies. You should check the respective privacy policies of these third-party services for more information about their cookie practices.

5. How to Control Your Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit our site. You can also change your preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" or "Manage Cookies" link, usually located in the website footer.

Additionally, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our website.

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, you can contact us:

  • By email: info@marinascateni.com