Cookies

This page explains how Choose Coffee uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the website remember your preferences and understand how you interact with the site.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes to enhance your experience on Choose Coffee:

• Authentication: To keep you signed in and secure your account.
• Preferences: To remember your settings and personalization choices.
• Analytics: To understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it.
• Performance: To ensure our site loads quickly and works properly.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They include:

• Session cookies for authentication
• Security cookies to prevent fraud
• Load balancing cookies for performance
• Cookie consent preferences (to remember your choices)

Retention: Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Consent preferences are stored for 1 year.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They are only set if you consent to analytics cookies.

• Page views and navigation patterns
• Time spent on pages
• Device and browser information

Retention: Analytics data is retained for 14 months. You can disable these cookies at any time using the preferences section at the top of this page.

Preference Cookies

These cookies remember your choices and preferences to provide a more personalized experience. They are only stored on your device if you consent to preference cookies.

• Display preferences such as theme and price-display format
• Recent searches in the global search overlay

Retention: Preference data is stored locally on your device and does not expire unless you clear your browser data or disable preference cookies. If you do not consent, these features may still work for the current session without being remembered on your device.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages:

• Clerk: For authentication and user management (essential)
• Google Analytics: For traffic analysis (only with your consent)

These third parties have their own privacy policies governing their use of cookies.

Your Consent Choices

When you first visit our website, we show a cookie consent banner asking for your permission before setting any non-essential cookies. You can:

• Accept All: Enable all cookie categories including analytics and preferences
• Reject All: Only allow essential cookies required for the site to function
• Customize: Choose exactly which categories to enable or disable

You can change your preferences at any time using the "Your Cookie Preferences" section at the top of this page.

Managing Cookies

In addition to our consent controls, you can manage cookies through your browser settings. Please note that removing or blocking cookies may impact your user experience.

Browser Settings

Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies or delete existing cookies through their settings. Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Microsoft Edge

Do Not Track

We honor your consent choices made through our cookie preference system. If you reject analytics cookies, we will not load any tracking scripts regardless of your browser's Do Not Track setting.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make significant changes to how we use cookies, we may ask you to re-confirm your consent preferences.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us: