Cookie Policy

Effective Date: July 30, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Castle Emerald ("we", "our", or "us") uses cookies and similar technologies on emerald-castle.net. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, remember your preferences, improve performance, analyze visitor behavior, and support features such as shopping carts and checkout processes.

2. Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and analytics tools. For simplicity, this policy refers to all such technologies as "cookies."

3. Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

operate and secure our website;
provide shopping cart and checkout functionality;
remember user preferences;
process and protect transactions;
analyze website performance and visitor behavior;
improve content, navigation, and user experience;
measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns;
support advertising and remarketing activities where permitted by law.

4. Categories of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function and cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tools.

They support:

website security;
shopping cart functionality;
checkout and payment processing;
fraud prevention;
privacy preference storage;
basic website operations.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They may collect information such as:

pages viewed;
time spent on pages;
navigation paths;
device and browser information;
interactions with content.

This information helps us improve website performance and user experience.

Functional Cookies

These cookies remember choices you make and help personalize your experience.

Examples include:

language preferences;
regional settings;
saved preferences;
accessibility settings.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies help us understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and may be used to support remarketing and advertising activities.

Where required by law, these cookies are only placed after obtaining your consent.

5. Cookie Consent

When required by applicable law, we obtain your consent before placing analytics, marketing, or other non-essential cookies on your device.

Our cookie banner allows visitors to:

Accept All Cookies;
Reject Non-Essential Cookies;
Customize Cookie Preferences.

You may change your preferences at any time.

6. Third-Party Services

We use third-party service providers that may place cookies or process information collected through cookies.

These providers may include:

Service	Purpose
Shopify	Store functionality, cart, checkout, security
Google Analytics	Website analytics and performance measurement
Google Search Console	Website performance and search visibility monitoring
Google Ads	Advertising measurement and remarketing
Microsoft Clarity	User behavior analytics and session insights
PayPal	Payment processing
Pinterest	Link to our Pinterest profile (no cookies set by us — see note below)
Email marketing provider (to be confirmed)	Subscriber management and campaign analytics, for subscribers who opted in

These third parties operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.

Note on Google Search Console: this tool analyzes aggregated website search performance data on our behalf and does not itself set cookies in visitors' browsers.

Note on Pinterest: our website may include a link to our Pinterest profile. This link does not itself set any cookies. If you click it and visit Pinterest's website, Pinterest's own cookie and privacy policies will apply.

Note on email marketing: we intend to use a third-party email marketing service to communicate with subscribers who have given their consent. This Policy will be updated to name the specific provider once selected.

7. Shopify Cookies

Our store is operated through Shopify.

Shopify uses cookies and similar technologies to support:

storefront functionality;
shopping cart behavior;
checkout processes;
fraud prevention;
payment processing;
customer account functionality (when available);
analytics and privacy preferences.

Some Shopify cookies are essential and cannot be disabled because they are required for the store to operate properly.

8. Analytics Technologies

We use analytics tools including Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Microsoft Clarity.

These services help us understand:

how visitors find our website;
how visitors interact with pages and content;
which areas of the website perform well;
where improvements may be needed.

Analytics information is generally used in aggregated or statistical form.

9. Advertising and Remarketing

We may use advertising technologies to measure campaign performance and support remarketing activities.

Remarketing allows us to display relevant advertisements to visitors who previously interacted with our website.

Advertising cookies are only used where permitted by law and, where required, after obtaining consent.

Google may use cookies to show you relevant advertisements based on your prior visits to our website, including on other websites (remarketing). You can learn more about this at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and manage your ad personalization preferences at adssettings.google.com.

10. International Visitors

Our website is available to visitors worldwide, including the European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and other regions.

Depending on your location, additional legal requirements may apply, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK GDPR, or applicable U.S. state privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act / California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA).

Where required by such laws, we obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies, and you may exercise your rights as described in our Privacy Policy.

11. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be:

Session Cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser; or
Persistent Cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.

Retention periods vary depending on the specific cookie and service provider.

12. Managing Cookies

You can manage cookies through:

our cookie preference center;
your browser settings;
device privacy controls.

Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect website functionality, including shopping cart and checkout features.

13. Cookie Preference Changes

You may update or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through our cookie preference settings, where available.

Changes apply going forward and do not affect processing that occurred before preferences were updated.

14. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Controls

Some browsers and devices provide "Do Not Track" signals or other privacy controls, such as Global Privacy Control (GPC).

At this time, we process cookie and opt-out preferences submitted directly through our cookie preference center or by contacting us, rather than through automated browser signals; we may add automated support for such signals in the future.

15. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements, business operations, or website functionality.

The latest version will always be available on this page.

16. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

manager@castleemerald.org

For our full contact details, including our legal name and physical address, please see our Privacy Policy.