This Cookie Policy explains how Virelaev uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website, browse our products, create an account, add items to your cart, place an order, or use our checkout and payment services.
By using our website, you acknowledge that we may use cookies and similar technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the website remember certain information, such as your shopping cart, login session, preferences, and checkout progress.
Cookies may be set directly by our website or by trusted third-party service providers that help us operate our store, process payments, prevent fraud, improve website performance, or provide customer support.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We may use the following types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for our website to work properly. They help support basic store functions such as:
- Keeping items in your shopping cart
- Processing checkout
- Managing account login sessions
- Remembering checkout progress
- Supporting payment security
- Helping prevent fraud and unauthorized activity
- Protecting the website from abuse or technical issues
These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website and cannot be disabled through our website settings.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help improve your shopping experience by remembering certain preferences, such as region, currency, language, saved settings, or other choices you make while browsing our website.
Analytics Cookies
If enabled, analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited, how customers navigate the store, and how we can improve the shopping experience.
These cookies may collect information such as device type, browser type, pages viewed, general usage activity, and approximate location data.
Marketing Cookies
If enabled, marketing cookies may be used to help us measure advertising performance, understand customer interests, or show more relevant advertisements.
These cookies may be set by third-party advertising or marketing platforms, where applicable.
3. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies or similar technologies may be placed by third-party service providers that help us operate our business. These may include:
- WooCommerce / WordPress for shopping cart, checkout, account, and website functionality
- Stripe for secure payment processing, fraud prevention, payment verification, and transaction security
- PayPal for payment processing, payment account services, fraud prevention, and transaction security
- Shipping, security, analytics, email, or customer support providers, where applicable
These third-party providers may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
4. Payment and Security Cookies
When you make a purchase, our payment partners, including Stripe and PayPal, may use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies to help:
- Process your payment securely
- Verify payment information
- Detect and prevent fraud
- Protect against unauthorized transactions
- Support risk management and dispute prevention
- Maintain the security of payment services
We do not store your full credit card details on our website.
5. How You Can Manage Cookies
You can manage or block cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device
- Delete existing cookies
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Set cookie preferences for specific websites
Please note that if you block strictly necessary cookies, some parts of our website may not work properly. This may affect shopping cart functions, checkout, account login, payment processing, and order completion.
If we provide a cookie preference tool or cookie banner on our website, you may also use it to manage your cookie choices.
6. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” settings. Because there is no consistent industry standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to all Do Not Track requests.
You can still manage cookies through your browser settings.
7. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, technology, legal requirements, or business operations.
Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us:
Email: support@virelaev.shop
