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Thank you for your interest in this Cookie Policy and welcome to Hoasties Coffee and our website and shop located at www.hoastiescoffee.com (our “website”). Our website uses cookies to remember your preferences and help you obtain the right information. Cookies also allow us to understand how our website is being used.
Our website is operated and maintained by Hoasties Coffee LLC of 120 Sanctuary Rd, Huntsville, Texas, USA (“Hoasties Coffee”, “we”, “us”, “our”). If you want to contact us or if you have any questions, you can reach us by email using info@hoastiescoffee.com with "Data Protection" in the subject line.
WHY DO WE HAVE A COOKIE POLICY?
This Cookie Policy sits in line with our obligations set out in the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) and the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”). In accordance with them, we need to inform you about the cookies we use and obtain your consent when using certain types of cookies, namely functional, performance, analytical, and advertising cookies (“Optional Cookies”).
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your device's hard drive by a website. Each time you return to the same website, your browser retrieves and sends the relevant cookie(s) to the website’s server. Cookies can be divided into the following two broad categories:
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Essential or necessary cookies: These cookies are essential or necessary to ensure that a website works properly and is secure so that you can navigate a website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain features of a website would not function, and thus you would not be able to use certain services.
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Optional Cookies: These cookies are non-essential for the website to function and require your consent. When it comes to optional cookies, the following distinctions are made:
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Functional cookies, sometimes called convenience cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember the options a user has made and other personalization options you have selected when browsing.
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Analysis and performance cookies, which are used to monitor and improve the function and service of a website. Those can track down problems when using a website, facilitate online surveys, record visitor numbers, and provide analytics metrics.
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Advertising cookies or targeting cookies: They are used to deliver customized advertising to the user.
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THE COOKIES WE USE
We utilize the below-mentioned cookies to provide users with an improved user experience.
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Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google. Google Analytics uses a specific form of cookie, which is stored on your device and enables an analysis of your use of our website. The cookies set by Google Analytics for measurement are different for each visitor (i.e. there is not a single Google Analytics cookie ID that is used on all sites using Google Analytics). The information about your use of our website generated by the cookie is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google uses this information on our behalf to analyze your use of this website in order to compile reports on website activities and provide additional services related to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other data.
In the configuration of Google Analytics, we ensured that Google receives this data as a processor and is therefore not allowed to use this data for its own purposes.
In relation to the data transfer into the USA Google’s processing agreement for Google Analytics, can be read here. You can disable tracking by Google Analytics with future effect by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser following this link.
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Shopify Analytics
We use Shopify Analytics by Shopify. Shopify Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your device, to help the website analyze how users use our website. The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place, and frequency of your website visit, including your IP address, is transmitted to Shopify and stored there. In this case, your IP address will already be shortened by Shopify and thus anonymized.
Shopify will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Shopify may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Shopify's behalf. The use of this service is based on your consent. More details here.
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Pixel Cookies and Tags
We use so-called Pixel Cookies and Tags (“Pixel Cookies”). A Pixel Cookie is an advertising tool and typically consists of a JavaScript code snippet that allows us to understand and track visitors' activity on our website. For this purpose, Pixel Cookies collect and process information about visitors of our website and the device used (so-called event data).
Event data collected through Pixel Cookies is used for targeting our advertisements and improving ad delivery and personalized advertising. For this purpose, the event data collected on our website by means of Pixel Cookies is transmitted to the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie and, in part, also stored on your device. However, this only happens with your consent, and we and the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie are considered joint controllers. Nonetheless, for the subsequent processing of the transmitted event data, the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie is the sole controller.
For more information about how the relevant operator of the Pixel Cookie processes personal data, including the legal basis on which they rely on and how you can exercise your rights, please refer to the following Privacy Policies: Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
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In your browser:
You can manage your cookie preferences using the following links for some of the most popular internet browsers:
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Cookie preference pop-up:
We also offer a cookie preference pop-up when you first visit our website. This pop-up is a consent tool and allows you to specify your preference about cookies. You can accept or reject them or access this Cookie Policy before giving your consent to cookies or rejecting them.
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Opt out:
In addition, if you do not wish to participate in advertising personalization or retargeting/tracking you can object to behavioral advertising at the following websites:
HELP AND COMPLAINTS
If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us by email using info@hoastiescoffee.com with "Data Protection" in the subject line.
CHANGES
The first version of this policy was issued on Friday, December 13th, 2024, and is the current version. Any prior versions are invalid, and if we make changes to this policy, we will revise the effective date.