This Cookie Policy explains how Coastora uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with coastora.shop.

It describes what cookies are, why they may be used, the main categories of cookies that may operate on the website, how you can manage your preferences, and how cookie-related information may be handled.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

Summary

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on a visitor's browser, computer, mobile device, or other internet-connected device.

Cookies can help a website:

• Function correctly
• Remember user preferences
• Maintain shopping cart activity
• Support checkout
• Recognize returning browsers or sessions
• Improve security
• Measure website performance
• Understand visitor interactions
• Support permitted advertising or marketing activities

Some cookies are necessary for basic website functions, while others may be optional.

2. Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, our website may use similar technologies, including:

• Local storage
• Browser storage
• Pixels
• Tags
• Scripts
• Device identifiers
• Session technologies
• Other comparable website technologies

For simplicity, this policy generally refers to these technologies together as "cookies" or "similar technologies."

3. Why Coastora Uses Cookies

Cookies may be used on coastora.shop for legitimate website and business purposes, including:

• Operating the website
• Supporting shopping cart functionality
• Supporting checkout
• Maintaining user sessions
• Remembering preferences
• Improving website security
• Preventing fraud
• Diagnosing technical problems
• Measuring website performance
• Understanding visitor behavior
• Improving customer experience
• Supporting analytics
• Supporting permitted marketing and advertising activities

The exact cookies present may depend on the website configuration and services active at the time of your visit.

4. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are used where necessary to provide core website functionality.

These cookies may support functions such as:

• Website navigation
• Shopping cart operation
• Checkout
• Secure sessions
• Fraud prevention
• Payment-related functionality
• Account access, if available
• Website security
• Network management

Because these cookies are necessary for the website to function properly, they may not always be subject to optional consent controls.

Disabling essential cookies through your browser may cause parts of the website to stop functioning correctly.

5. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may help improve the convenience and usability of the website.

They may be used to remember:

• Language preferences
• Display preferences
• Region or location preferences
• Previously selected options
• Shopping-related preferences
• Other website settings

These cookies may help provide a more consistent experience when you return to the website.

6. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies may be used to understand how visitors interact with coastora.shop.

These cookies may help us understand:

• Which pages are visited
• How visitors navigate the website
• How long visitors remain on certain pages
• Where visitors came from
• Which devices or browsers are used
• Whether certain pages or features are functioning properly
• General website traffic patterns

Analytics information may be used to improve website performance, usability, product presentation, and customer experience.

Where required by applicable law, non-essential analytics cookies should operate according to applicable visitor consent choices.

7. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Where enabled, advertising or marketing cookies may be used to support activities such as:

• Measuring advertising effectiveness
• Understanding whether an advertisement led to a website visit
• Measuring conversions
• Limiting repetitive advertising
• Understanding product interest
• Supporting relevant advertising
• Creating aggregated advertising performance reports

These cookies may be placed by Coastora or by third-party service providers where such services are implemented.

Where applicable law requires consent or an opt-out mechanism, these technologies should be used in accordance with the visitor's applicable choices.

8. Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies

Cookies and related technologies may be used to help:

• Identify suspicious activity
• Protect checkout
• Prevent fraudulent transactions
• Protect customer accounts
• Detect unauthorized website activity
• Maintain website security
• Reduce abuse

Security-related cookies may be necessary to protect both customers and Coastora.

9. Shopping Cart and Checkout Cookies

Our website may use cookies necessary to maintain shopping and checkout functionality.

These cookies may help:

• Keep products in your cart
• Remember quantities
• Maintain checkout sessions
• Process order steps correctly
• Prevent duplicate actions
• Maintain transaction security

If these cookies are blocked, shopping cart or checkout functions may not work as intended.

10. Payment-Related Technologies

Payment processing may involve cookies or similar technologies used by payment providers or checkout services.

These technologies may be used for:

• Secure payment processing
• Payment authorization
• Fraud prevention
• Authentication
• Transaction security
• Checkout functionality

Payment providers may process information according to their own privacy and cookie practices.

Coastora does not control all cookies used independently by third-party payment providers.

11. Express Checkout and Digital Wallets

Where available, our website may support payment methods such as:

• Shop Pay
• PayPal
• Google Pay
• Apple Pay
• Venmo

These providers may use their own cookies, scripts, or similar technologies to enable:

• Authentication
• Secure checkout
• Fraud prevention
• Payment processing
• Account recognition

Their use of cookies and personal information may be governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.

12. Shipping and Order Functionality

Cookies or related technologies may also support functions connected with:

• Order confirmation
• Order status
• Shipping status
• Checkout preferences
• Delivery information
• Customer session continuity

Shipping carriers themselves may use their own technologies when you visit their independent tracking websites.

13. First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are cookies placed by or for the website you are visiting.

On coastora.shop, first-party cookies may help with:

• Website operation
• Shopping cart functions
• Preferences
• Security
• Session continuity
• Performance

14. Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies may be placed by external service providers whose technologies are used on the website.

Depending on the services active on coastora.shop, third parties may provide services such as:

• Payment processing
• Analytics
• Advertising
• Fraud prevention
• Website performance
• Customer support
• Embedded functionality

Third parties may process information according to their own terms and privacy practices.

15. Session Cookies

Session cookies generally remain active only during your current browsing session.

They may be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

Session cookies may help with:

• Cart functionality
• Checkout
• Website navigation
• Authentication
• Security
• Temporary preferences

16. Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies may remain on your device after your browsing session ends.

They may be used to remember:

• Preferences
• Recognition settings
• Analytics information
• Marketing preferences
• Other permitted website settings

The duration of a persistent cookie depends on its specific purpose and configuration.

17. Cookie Duration

Different cookies may remain active for different periods.

Some may expire:

• At the end of a browser session
• After several minutes or hours
• After several days
• After several months
• After a longer predefined period

The specific duration may depend on the cookie's purpose, provider, and current website configuration.

18. Consent to Non-Essential Cookies

Where applicable law requires consent before certain non-essential cookies are used, visitors should be provided with an appropriate method to make a choice.

Depending on the website configuration, this may include options to:

• Accept applicable cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Adjust cookie preferences
• Change previously selected preferences

Essential cookies may continue to operate where necessary for website functionality.

19. Cookie Preferences

Where cookie preference controls are available on coastora.shop, you may use them to manage applicable categories of non-essential cookies.

Your choices may include enabling or disabling certain categories.

Some cookies may remain active because they are necessary to:

• Operate the website
• Secure the website
• Maintain checkout
• Prevent fraud
• Provide requested services

20. Browser Cookie Controls

Most web browsers allow users to manage cookies through browser settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View stored cookies
• Delete cookies
• Block all cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Allow cookies only for specific websites
• Receive alerts before cookies are placed
• Clear cookies when the browser closes

The exact controls vary by browser and device.

21. Effects of Blocking Cookies

If you disable or block cookies, some parts of coastora.shop may not work correctly.

Possible effects may include:

• Shopping cart items not being remembered
• Checkout interruptions
• Preferences not being saved
• Login issues, if account functionality is available
• Payment functionality problems
• Reduced website personalization
• Difficulty maintaining a secure session

Essential cookies may be required for certain core website functions.

22. Device-Level Privacy Controls

Some devices and operating systems provide privacy settings that may affect:

• Tracking
• Advertising identifiers
• Location information
• Cross-app activity
• Browser storage
• Cookie behavior

You may review your device settings for additional privacy controls.

23. Browser-Based Privacy Signals

Certain browsers or browser extensions may transmit privacy preference signals.

Where applicable law requires recognition of a legally valid browser-based opt-out signal, Coastora should process such signals in accordance with applicable requirements and the capabilities of the services used on the website.

24. Do Not Track

Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" setting.

There is not a single universally implemented technical standard governing all Do Not Track signals.

Where legally required browser-based privacy preference mechanisms apply, they should be handled in accordance with applicable law.

25. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the cookie or technology used, information collected may include:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Session identifiers
• Cookie identifiers
• Pages visited
• Referring website
• Date and time of access
• Shopping interactions
• Checkout interactions
• Approximate location derived from IP address
• Advertising or analytics identifiers, where applicable

Not every cookie collects all of these categories.

26. How Cookie Information Is Used

Information collected through cookies may be used to:

• Operate the website
• Process shopping sessions
• Maintain checkout
• Improve security
• Prevent fraud
• Understand website performance
• Diagnose errors
• Measure engagement
• Improve customer experience
• Analyze website traffic
• Support permitted advertising
• Meet legal or security requirements

27. Cookie Information and Personal Data

Some cookie information may qualify as personal information under applicable privacy laws when it can identify, relate to, or reasonably be linked with an individual or device.

Where cookie information is considered personal information, we process it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable law.

28. Sharing Cookie Information

Cookie-related information may be shared with service providers where reasonably necessary to provide services such as:

• Hosting
• Payment processing
• Analytics
• Security
• Fraud prevention
• Advertising
• Customer support
• Website functionality

The categories of providers used may change as the website's technical configuration changes.

29. Third-Party Service Providers

Third-party providers may place or access cookies where their services are integrated into our website.

These providers may process cookie-related information according to their own:

• Privacy policies
• Cookie policies
• Terms of service
• Security practices

Coastora does not control independent third-party websites or technologies outside our website environment.

30. External Websites

If you follow a link from coastora.shop to another website, that external website may use its own cookies.

Examples may include:

• Payment-provider websites
• Carrier tracking websites
• Social media platforms
• External customer service systems

This Cookie Policy does not control cookies placed by independent websites you visit separately.

31. Analytics Information

Where analytics services are used, they may help us understand aggregate or device-level website activity.

This may include:

• Page views
• Sessions
• Referral sources
• Device categories
• General geographic information
• Conversion activity
• Interaction patterns

Analytics information may be used to improve the website and shopping experience.

32. Marketing Measurement

Where advertising measurement technologies are enabled, they may help determine whether advertising campaigns result in:

• Website visits
• Product views
• Cart activity
• Completed purchases
• Other permitted conversion events

Where required, such technologies should operate according to applicable consent or opt-out preferences.

33. No Requirement to Accept Non-Essential Cookies

Where applicable law provides a right to reject non-essential cookies, declining them should not prevent you from accessing basic website information.

However, some optional functions or personalized experiences may be reduced.

Essential functions may still require necessary cookies.

34. Withdrawal or Change of Consent

Where your use of non-essential cookies is based on consent, you may be able to withdraw or change that consent using the website's cookie preference controls.

Changing your preference does not necessarily remove cookies already stored on your device.

You may also need to delete previously stored cookies through your browser settings.

35. Cookie Preferences Across Devices

Cookie choices are often stored at the browser or device level.

If you:

• Use another browser
• Use another device
• Clear browser storage
• Use private browsing
• Reset website data

you may need to set your cookie preferences again.

36. Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence and applicable law, you may have privacy rights regarding information collected through cookies and similar technologies.

These rights may include:

• Access
• Correction
• Deletion
• Opt-out rights
• Information about data use
• Other applicable privacy rights

For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.

37. California Privacy Rights

Where applicable California privacy law applies, California residents may have rights regarding certain forms of:

• Personal information collection
• Targeted advertising
• Sharing
• Sale
• Sensitive personal information
• Browser-based opt-out signals

You may contact us at contact@coastora.shop regarding an applicable privacy request.

38. Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional rights concerning cookies and online tracking technologies.

Depending on applicable law, these may include rights to opt out of certain:

• Targeted advertising
• Sales of personal information
• Sharing of personal information
• Profiling activities

Applicable requests may be submitted to contact@coastora.shop.

39. Children's Privacy

Our website is intended for general online retail shopping and is not specifically directed toward children.

We do not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.

If you believe that information relating to a child has been collected improperly, please contact us.

40. Data Security

We take reasonable measures designed to protect information associated with website activity against:

• Unauthorized access
• Misuse
• Unauthorized disclosure
• Loss
• Alteration

However, no internet-based system or cookie technology can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

41. Data Retention

Cookie-related information may be retained for different periods depending on:

• The type of cookie
• Its technical purpose
• The service provider
• Legal requirements
• Security requirements
• Analytics needs
• Consent status

Information should not be retained longer than reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose, subject to legal and technical requirements.

42. Cookies and Account Security

If customer account functionality is available, cookies may be used to help maintain secure access and session continuity.

Customers should:

• Protect passwords
• Avoid sharing login credentials
• Use secure devices
• Sign out on shared devices where applicable

43. Cookies and Fraud Prevention

Cookies and similar technologies may help identify unusual or unauthorized activity.

This may include reviewing:

• Device information
• Session identifiers
• IP addresses
• Checkout behavior
• Transaction patterns

Such processing may be used to protect customers and the website from fraud.

44. Cookies and Customer Support

Website technologies may also help support customer service functions.

For example, they may help maintain website sessions or connect website activity with support functionality where such features are implemented.

Any personal information used for customer support is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

45. Relationship With Our Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy provides broader information about:

• Personal information we collect
• How information is used
• How information is shared
• Data retention
• Data security
• Customer privacy rights
• Contact procedures

This Cookie Policy focuses specifically on cookies and similar website technologies.

46. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in:

• Website functionality
• Cookie technologies
• Service providers
• Privacy practices
• Legal requirements
• Consent mechanisms
• Security practices

When changes are made, the revised version will be published on coastora.shop with an updated "Last Updated" date.