Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, and how to manage your cookie preferences.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, improve efficiency, and provide reporting information.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes, including:

  • Operating our Website: Ensuring the shopping cart functions and that you can log into your account.

  • Analyzing Performance: Understanding how visitors use our site, which helps us improve the structure and content of our product and workshop pages.

  • Personalization: Remembering your preferences (like language or region).

  • Advertising: Delivering advertisements that are relevant to you.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Our Site utilizes different categories of cookies:

A. Essential (Strictly Necessary) Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms (e.g., placing a product in your shopping cart).

  • Purpose: Enable core functionality like security, network management, and accessibility.

  • Example: Cookies used by Woocommerce to process checkout.

B. Analytical/Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site, including how our workshop pages are viewed. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular.

  • Third Parties: Google Analytics, YouTube

  • Purpose: Site performance analysis, tracking traffic sources.

C. Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages (e.g., video embeds for workshop previews, chat functionality).

  • Example: Cookies that remember your login details for a future visit.

D. Targeting/Advertising Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners, such as Facebook, Google Ads. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

  • Purpose: Marketing and retargeting based on products or workshops viewed.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may use various third-parties to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

  • Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, YouTube

5. Your Cookie Choices and Management

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:

A. The Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our Site, you will see a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage your preferences for Analytical and Targeting cookies.

B. Browser Settings

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Site, but your access to some functionality and areas of our Site may be restricted (e.g., the shopping cart may not work correctly).

6. More Information

For more information about how we process your personal data, please visit our Privacy Policy page.