Cookie policy
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed and stored on your device (such as a computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit our website. Each cookie contains a small amount of data that is transferred to your browser and may later be read by our servers or, in some cases, by third-party servers.
Cookies serve various purposes:
• Identification and recognition: They allow our website to recognize your browser or device during future visits.
• Session management: They enable essential functions such as keeping you logged in, managing your shopping cart, and ensuring secure navigation.
• Preference storage: They can store user preferences (e.g., language settings, region, or login data) to personalize your browsing experience.
• Analytics and performance: They help us understand how visitors interact with our website (e.g., which pages are visited most often, how much time is spent on the site), allowing us to improve functionality and user experience.
• Advertising and marketing: Certain cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements tailored to your interests and to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
Cookies may be set directly by us (“first-party cookies”) or by third-party providers whose services we integrate into our website (“third-party cookies”), such as analytics providers, payment processors, or social media platforms.
There are different types of cookies depending on their duration:
• Session cookies: Temporary cookies that are deleted automatically once you close your browser. They are often used to manage sessions (e.g., keeping you logged in).
• Persistent cookies: These remain stored on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually. They allow our website to recognize your device on subsequent visits.
Please note that cookies do not cause any harm to your device, cannot access files or programs stored on it, and cannot transmit viruses.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use different categories of cookies on our website. Each category serves a distinct purpose. Depending on your consent preferences, some categories may be deactivated, while others are strictly necessary and cannot be disabled.
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the proper operation of our website. Without them, core services such as page navigation, adding items to the shopping cart, secure login, and checkout cannot function. Because of their essential nature, these cookies are always active and cannot be deactivated through the cookie settings panel.
Examples: session cookies, security/authentication cookies, cart cookies.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies enable our website to remember your preferences and settings, such as your chosen language, region, display options, or login details. They improve the usability and personalization of your browsing experience.
Disabling these cookies may result in certain features not working as intended.
Performance & Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to analyze how visitors use our website. For example, they help us measure page views, time spent on the site, navigation paths, and interaction with content. The data collected is aggregated and anonymized, meaning it does not personally identify you.
We use this information solely to improve the design, functionality, and performance of our services.
Examples: Google Analytics, Squarespace Analytics.
Marketing & Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. They help us and our advertising partners (e.g., Google Ads, Meta/Facebook, Instagram) deliver personalized ads relevant to your interests, limit the number of times an ad is displayed, and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
These cookies may collect information about your browsing behavior across multiple websites and may be combined with data from other sources.
You can manage your cookie preferences, including granting or withdrawing consent for Functional, Analytics, and Marketing cookies, at any time through our Cookie Settings panel.
3. Consent to Cookies
When you first visit our website, a cookie banner will appear informing you about the use of cookies. At that time, you may choose to:
• Accept all cookies (including functional, analytics, and marketing cookies),
• Reject all non-essential cookies, or
• Customize your cookie preferences through the cookie settings panel.
The use of essential cookies is based on our legitimate interest in providing a secure and functional website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
The use of all non-essential cookies (functional, analytics, and marketing) requires your prior consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
Your choices will be stored in a consent management system to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
You may withdraw or modify your consent at any time by accessing the cookie settings panel available on our website footer, or by adjusting your browser settings to delete or block cookies. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Please note: If you reject or disable non-essential cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly, and your user experience may be limited.
4. Managing Cookie Settings
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by accessing the Cookie Settings link located at the bottom of our website. This allows you to withdraw or modify your consent for non-essential cookies (functional, analytics, and marketing).
In addition to our cookie settings tool, you can configure your browser to block, restrict, or delete cookies. Please note that if you block or delete certain cookies, essential website features (such as shopping cart, login, or language settings) may not function properly.
Below you will find links to instructions for managing cookies in commonly used browsers:
For other browsers, please consult the official support documentation of the browser provider.
You can also opt out of certain third-party cookies used for online advertising by visiting:
• Network Advertising Initiative (US)
5. Storage Period
Cookies used on our website are stored on your device for varying periods of time:
• Session Cookies
These cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. They are used to maintain session integrity, such as keeping items in your shopping cart or remembering your login during a single visit.
• Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain stored on your device until they reach their predefined expiration date or are manually deleted by you through your browser settings. Persistent cookies allow us to recognize your browser across multiple sessions, remember your preferences (such as language or region), and improve your user experience.
The exact storage period may vary depending on the type of cookie and its purpose:
• Essential cookies: stored only as long as necessary to provide the requested service.
• Functional and preference cookies: may last for several months to remember your settings.
• Performance and analytics cookies: typically remain active for up to 24 months, unless deleted earlier.
• Marketing and advertising cookies: may persist for up to 24 months or as defined by the third-party provider.
After expiration, cookies are automatically removed from your device.
6. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to the cookies we set directly, certain cookies are placed by trusted third-party providers. These cookies enable functionalities such as analytics, advertising, payment processing, and social media integration.
Examples of third-party providers include (but are not limited to):
• Analytics Services (e.g., Google Analytics, Matomo):
Used to collect anonymized or pseudonymized information about how users interact with our website (e.g., page views, traffic sources, browsing behavior). This helps us improve our content and services.
• Advertising and Marketing Partners (e.g., Google Ads, Meta/Facebook Pixel):
Used to display personalized ads, track conversions, and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
• Payment Service Providers (e.g., Stripe, PayPal):
May place cookies necessary to process secure online payments and prevent fraud.
• Social Media Platforms (e.g., Instagram, YouTube, X/Twitter):
When you interact with embedded content or share buttons, these platforms may set cookies to track user activity or link it to your account on their service.
The use of third-party cookies means that data may be transferred to providers located outside the European Union/EEA. In such cases, we ensure that appropriate safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses) are in place to protect your personal data in accordance with Articles 44–49 GDPR.
Further details about third-party providers, their cookies, and the data processing involved can be found in our [Privacy Policy].
You may withdraw or change your consent to third-party cookies at any time via the Cookie Settings link at the bottom of our website.