Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a better browsing experience, and give website owners useful information about how their site is being used.

Cookies can be "first-party" (set by the website you are visiting) or "third-party" (set by a different domain than the one you are visiting). They can also be "session cookies" (deleted when you close your browser) or "persistent cookies" (remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them).

Similar technologies such as web beacons, pixels, local storage, and device fingerprinting may also be used alongside cookies. References to "cookies" in this policy include these similar technologies unless otherwise stated.

We use cookies for a variety of purposes to enhance your shopping experience on aokede.com:

• Authentication & Security: To recognize you when you log in, keep your session active while you shop, and protect your account from unauthorized access.

• Shopping Cart & Checkout: To remember items in your shopping cart, save your shipping preferences, and ensure a smooth checkout process.

• Personalization: To remember your preferences such as language, currency, recently viewed products, and display settings so you do not have to re-enter them each visit.

• Analytics & Performance: To understand how visitors navigate our site, which pages are most popular, and where users encounter issues. This helps us improve site speed, layout, and functionality.

• Marketing & Advertising: To deliver relevant advertisements, measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, and limit the number of times you see a particular ad.

• Social Media Integration: To enable sharing features and display social media content on our pages.

We use the following categories of cookies on aokede.com:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable core features such as shopping cart functionality, account login, checkout processing, and security. Without these cookies, the site cannot operate correctly. These cookies do not collect personal information for marketing purposes and cannot be disabled.

• Performance & Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous, aggregated information about how visitors use our website — such as which pages are visited most often, how long users spend on each page, and any error messages encountered. We use Google Analytics and similar tools to gather this data. These cookies help us improve our website performance and user experience.

• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, region, or product preferences) and provide enhanced, personalized features. They may also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of the site.

• Targeting & Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They also help limit the number of times you see an ad and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited our site and may share this information with other organizations such as advertisers.

• Social Media Cookies: These cookies are set by social media platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter) that we have integrated into our site. They allow you to share products and content with your social networks and may track your browsing activity across other websites to build a profile of your interests.

In addition to our own cookies, we allow certain trusted third parties to place cookies on your device when you visit aokede.com. These third parties include:

• Google Analytics: Collects anonymous usage statistics to help us understand site traffic and user behavior. Data is aggregated and does not personally identify you. Retention period: 26 months.

• Google Ads: Tracks conversions from our advertising campaigns and enables remarketing to show you relevant ads on other websites. You can opt out via Google Ad Settings.

• Facebook Pixel: Measures the effectiveness of our Facebook and Instagram advertising and enables custom audience targeting. You can manage preferences in your Facebook Ad Settings.

• Stripe / PayPal: Our payment processors use cookies to detect fraud, process transactions securely, and remember your payment preferences.

• Hotjar: Provides heatmaps and session recordings (with personal data masked) to help us understand how users interact with our pages.

• Cloudflare: Provides security and performance optimization cookies to protect against malicious traffic and speed up page loading.

We do not control third-party cookies. Please refer to each third party's privacy and cookie policies for more information about their practices.

The cookies we use have varying lifespans:

• Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser. They are used for essential functions like maintaining your shopping cart during a browsing session.

• Short-Term Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a period of 24 hours to 30 days. They are typically used for remembering recent preferences and login sessions.

• Long-Term Persistent Cookies: These cookies can remain on your device for up to 2 years. They are used for analytics, advertising, and remembering your long-term preferences such as language and currency settings.

Specific cookie durations:
• Shopping cart cookies: 30 days
• Login/authentication cookies: 14 days (or until logout)
• Analytics cookies (Google Analytics): up to 26 months
• Advertising cookies: up to 13 months
• Preference cookies: up to 12 months
• Security cookies (Cloudflare): session to 12 months

You have several options for managing cookies:

• Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically find these in the "Options," "Settings," or "Preferences" menu of your browser. You can set your browser to block all cookies, accept all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.

• Browser-Specific Instructions:
- Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data
- Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
- Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions

• Google Analytics Opt-Out: Install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

• Advertising Opt-Out: Visit the Digital Advertising Alliance at optout.aboutads.info or the Network Advertising Initiative at optout.networkadvertising.org to opt out of targeted advertising cookies.

• Do Not Track: We respect Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals. When DNT is enabled, we will not set non-essential tracking cookies.

Please note that blocking or deleting certain cookies may impact your experience on our website. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for the site to function. If you block essential cookies, features such as the shopping cart and checkout will not work.

We are committed to protecting your privacy when using cookies:

• No Personal Data in Cookies: We do not store sensitive personal information (such as your name, address, or payment details) directly in cookies.

• Data Minimization: We only collect the minimum amount of data necessary through cookies to provide and improve our services.

• Secure Transmission: Cookies containing session identifiers are transmitted over encrypted HTTPS connections.

• GDPR & CCPA Compliance: Our cookie practices comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for EU/EEA visitors and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for California residents. You have the right to know what data is collected, request deletion, and opt out of data sales.

• Children's Privacy: Our website is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly use cookies to collect data from children.

For complete details on how we handle your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy page.

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business practices. When we make significant changes, we will post a notice on our website and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies. Your continued use of aokede.com after any changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.

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

• Email: privacy@aokede.com
• Phone: +1 (800) 123-4567
• Mail: aokede.com Privacy Team, 123 Food Street, Fresh City, FC 12345

Our team will respond to your inquiry within 48 hours during business days.