§8 Cookies – general information

The Website uses various Cookies, for example to allow the safe and easy use of the Website. Where Cookies are used, the Controller might have access to information regarding the activities carried out by users while visiting the Website (e.g. their times of visit, traffic on the Website and interest expressed/shown in regard to specific content or advertisements) and information directly related to the user, e.g. information on their location. As a general rule, information collected by means of Cookies does not constitute Personal Data, however, in combination with other information held by the Controller or external Websites, it may become a part of Personal Data.

§9 Types of Cookies used on the Website

  1. Types of Cookies in terms of storage permanence:
    1. Session cookies – these are files placed on the user’s device and read by the Website from there during a single session of a given device. Once the web browser is closed, the cookies are deleted from the device.
    2. Persistent cookies – these are files placed on the user’s device and read by the Website from there for as long as they are not deleted, either manually or automatically after a specified period.
  2. Types of Cookies in terms to their purpose:
    1. Essential – These Cookies are necessary for the Website to function correctly. For this reason, they cannot be disabled.
    2. Analytics – These Cookies allow the Controller to monitor Website traffic, including the number of visits, and verify the choices made by users. Thanks to analytics Cookies it is possible to build an anonymized statistics database to help develop and improve the Website.
    3. Marketing – These Cookies are used to display advertisements and customise them according to user preferences. Customisation takes place by analysing the behaviour of individual users on the Website; depending on the Cookie provider, the analysis may also include information on the behaviour on other sites.
    4. Functional – These Cookies serve to retain information on choices made on the Website in regard to its function, e.g. the preferred language of the page, the layout of the content and the region in which the user is located.
  3. Types of Cookies by owner:
    1. Internal cookies – these are files placed on the user’s device by the Website’s ICT system and read by it from there.
    2. External cookies – these are files placed on the user’s device by the ICT systems of External Websites and read by them from there. Such External scripts able to place Cookies on the User’s device have been deliberately introduced to the Website through the scripts and services made available and installed on the Website. The External Websites in question are:

Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States, through:

  • Google Ads (marketing cookies running and evaluating advertising campaigns);
  • Google Analytics (statistical files that study user behaviour). For more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631?hl=en&ref_topic=1008008;
  • reCAPTCHA (cookies necessary to ensure website security, for example to prevent spam commenting);
  • YouTube, whose widgets are embedded on the website and which allow a specific video to be played, of which Google is informed for the purposes of analysis, optimisation and the correct function of YouTube and the widget, as well as of ad personalisation. If the user is logged into a Google account while using the Website, videos that have been played will be linked to the activity log of that account. For more information, please see: https://policies.google.com/privacy and www.youtube.com/t/terms.
  • Google Maps, whose widgets are embedded on the website to display a map and to make it possible to calculate a route to a given point on the map. More information: https://www.google.com/intl/eng_eng/help/terms_maps/
  • Google Translate plug-in, which allows the website to be translated into selected languages.
  • More information about Google LLC: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl.
  • Some of the cookies used in the store are: cookieyes-consent, woocommerce_items_in_cart, woocommerce_cart_hash, wp_woocommerce_session_*, shop_per_page, woodmart_wishlist_count, sbjs_migrations, sbjs_current_add, sbjs_first_add, sbjs_current, sbjs_first, sbjs_udata, sbjs_session, wishlist_cleared_time, woodmart_recently_viewed_products

§10 Cookie Management

  1. All cookies indicated, except for essential cookies, require the user’s consent before they are used. The user makes a choice with regard to the cookies used (the only exception are the essential cookies), and cookies remain blocked until explicit consent is given, by accepting them and confirming via a button. The user can change cookie settings for the Controller’s Website at any time by withdrawing consent or objecting to the use of non-essential cookies.
  2. Cookie settings can also be changed directly in the web browser used. At the browser level, the user can manage cookies by requesting that information is displayed each time a cookie is placed on the device or by blocking their automatic storage. The user can configure these options in several ways, according to the browser used. For more information, please see below:
    1. Microsoft Edge https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
    2. Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
    3. Opera https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/Mozilla
    4. Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
    5. Safari https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-sfri11471/mac
  3. If cookies are restricted, some of the Website’s functionalities may not work properly.