Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?

Cookies are small text or data files stored by a browser on a computer, phone, tablet, or other device. They can help a website recognize a browser, remember preferences, maintain a session, preserve a shopping cart, prevent abuse, or understand how visitors use pages.

Similar technologies may include:

• Local storage and session storage
• Pixels, tags, scripts, and web beacons
• Device, browser, session, or transaction identifiers
• Server logs and security-event records
• Software-development-kit or embedded-service identifiers where applicable

Some technologies disappear when the browser closes, while others remain for a defined period or until deleted.

Why We Use These Technologies

Cookies and similar technologies may be used to:

• Load pages, secure forms, maintain sessions, and operate account features
• Remember cart contents, checkout state, login status, and user preferences
• Process payments and reduce fraudulent or abusive activity
• Measure traffic, page use, technical performance, and campaign effectiveness
• Diagnose errors, outages, compatibility problems, and security events
• Display third-party content or features requested by the visitor
• Improve site structure, products, content, usability, and conversion paths

Types of Cookies That May Be Used

Examples That May Appear

The exact names, purposes, providers, and lifetimes may change as services are updated. Depending on the page and configuration, cookies or identifiers may include:

• WordPress: login, session, administrator, editor, and preference cookies
• WooCommerce: cart contents, cart hash, customer session, checkout state, and recently viewed product information
• Google Analytics: identifiers such as _ga and property-specific _ga_* cookies
• Stripe or PayPal: payment, transaction, session, device, fraud-prevention, and security identifiers
• Security and caching tools: challenge, rate-limit, bot-detection, cache, and session-integrity identifiers
• Cookie preference tools: records of consent, rejection, or category choices where such controls are enabled

This list is illustrative rather than a guarantee that every listed technology is active on every page or affiliated domain.

Third-Party Cookies and Services

Some cookies or similar technologies are provided by third parties whose services are used for analytics, payments, hosting, security, embedded content, email delivery, ecommerce, or other site functions.

Those providers may process information under their own privacy policies and may combine information collected through their services with information they obtain elsewhere, subject to their terms and the visitor’s settings.

Web Vine Marketing does not control a third party’s browser storage, retention period, policy changes, or processing outside the Website. Visitors should review the applicable provider’s privacy and cookie information when using a third-party feature.

Session and Persistent Cookies

Session cookies generally expire when the browser or active session ends. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period, until replaced, or until the visitor deletes them.

Duration varies according to purpose, configuration, browser rules, provider settings, consent state, and technical requirements. Security and transaction records may also be retained separately from browser cookies when reasonably necessary for fraud prevention, dispute handling, compliance, and system integrity.

How to Control Cookies

You can control cookies through browser settings and, where displayed, the Website’s cookie preference control. Browser controls commonly allow you to block, limit, delete, or receive alerts about cookies.

• Rejecting optional cookies may reduce analytics or personalization.
• Blocking necessary cookies can prevent login, checkout, cart, security, or account features from working.
• Deleting cookies may remove remembered settings and sign you out.
• Browser settings are device- and browser-specific and may need to be repeated.
• Private browsing or browser extensions may alter cookie behavior.

Google provides a Google Analytics browser opt-out tool. Browser vendors also publish instructions within their privacy, settings, or help menus.

Do Not Track and Privacy Preference Signals

Browsers may send “Do Not Track” or other privacy preference signals. Because there is not one universally adopted response standard for every signal and jurisdiction, handling may depend on applicable law, the signal received, site configuration, and the technologies in use.

Where legally required and technically supported, Web Vine Marketing will process recognized opt-out preference signals in accordance with applicable law.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated when technologies, service providers, Website features, legal requirements, or business practices change. The “Last Updated” date identifies the most recent revision.

Visitors should review this page periodically, especially after changes to checkout, analytics, account, security, or embedded-content features.