Cookie Policy
1. Introduction
At Cara Jewellers, we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website, www.carajewellers.com (“our site”). Cookies help us distinguish you from other users, providing a seamless browsing experience and enabling us to improve our site’s functionality.
2. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files consisting of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or device, provided you agree. These cookies contain information transferred to your device’s hard drive
3. Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential Cookies
These cookies are crucial for the proper functioning of our site. They allow you to:
- Purchase products successfully.
- Navigate to the correct pages.
- Save personal preferences for future visits. Some essential cookies are necessary for fulfilling our contract with you. Others are placed based on our legitimate interest in ensuring the website operates efficiently and remembers certain basic information.
- Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us recognize and count visitors, as well as track how they move around our site. These cookies also allow us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences and products you viewed or searched for, allowing us to customize the site and offer targeted promotions.
- Speed up your searches and improve page load times.
- Recognize you when you return to our site.
- Record page response times, visit lengths, and methods of navigating away from the page.
- Ensure users find what they are looking for easily.
- Make your browsing experience more convenient, such as by storing items in an electronic shopping basket between visits.
4. Purpose of Cookies
Some cookies are used based on our legitimate interest in improving user experience by ensuring relevant content is displayed and the site operates according to your preferences. When you register or complete an online form, cookies will remember your details for both the current and future visits, as long as the cookie is not deleted in the interim
5. Data Retention & Expiry
Different types of cookies have different lifespans:
- Session Cookies: These expire once you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set period unless manually deleted. The retention period varies depending on the type of cookie and its intended function.
6. Third-Party Cookies
Please note that our advertisers and other third parties may also use cookies on our site, over which we have no control. Our site may use cookies from third-party services such as:
- Google Analytics – To track website performance and user interactions.
- Facebook Pixel – For marketing and advertisement tracking.
- Other marketing and analytical tools – To improve user experience and offer tailored content.
For more information about how these third parties use cookies, please refer to their respective privacy policies.
7. Managing Cookies
You can block analytical cookies and others by adjusting the settings on your browser to refuse the setting of some or all cookies. However, if you block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
8. Compliance with GDPR & Other Regulations
We comply with applicable data protection laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), ensuring transparency and user control over cookie preferences. If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the right to:
- Withdraw consent at any time.
- Request access to personal data stored through cookies.
- Request deletion of stored cookie-related data.
9. Consent for Non-Essential Cookies
We typically use only functional and analytical cookies. In cases where we use cookies beyond these categories, we will first ask for your consent before placing them on your device