COOKIES
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how 021 Threadz uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or shop on our website.
1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, why they may be used on the 021 Threadz website and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
Cookies and similar technologies may collect or store information about your browser, device and use of the website.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, share and protect personal information.
The cookies used on the website may change when website features, plugins or third-party services are added, removed or updated.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website.
They allow the website to recognise your browser or device and may remember information such as your preferences, login status, shopping-cart contents and cookie choices.
Some cookies remain only while your browser is open and are removed when it is closed. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels or tags, may perform related functions where they are used on the website.
3. Why We Use Cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
• Keep the website secure and functioning correctly
• Remember items added to your shopping cart
• Maintain your session during checkout
• Remember selected preferences and cookie choices
• Support customer-account and login functions
• Detect errors, fraud or suspicious activity
• Understand how visitors use and navigate the website
• Measure the performance of website pages and promotions
• Provide advertising or marketing features where these services are installed and permitted
Cookies that are necessary for the website to operate may be used automatically. Non-essential cookies will be used only where they are active on the website and where the required permission has been obtained.
4. Categories of Cookies
The website may use the following categories of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These support essential functions such as security, shopping-cart contents, checkout, account access and cookie-preference management.
Functional cookies
These remember choices such as display settings, login preferences or other features that improve your experience.
Analytics cookies
Where enabled, these help us understand website traffic, popular pages and how visitors interact with the website.
Marketing cookies
Where enabled, these may measure advertising campaigns or help provide more relevant promotional content.
The exact categories used will depend on the plugins and third-party services active on the website.
5. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for the website and online store to operate correctly.
These cookies may be used to:
• Maintain website and account security
• Remember products placed in your shopping cart
• Detect changes to your cart contents
• Maintain your shopping session during checkout
• Process orders and payments correctly
• Remember your cookie-consent choices
• Support administrative and fraud-prevention functions
Because these cookies support essential website services, disabling them may prevent parts of the website, including the cart, customer account or checkout, from working correctly.
WooCommerce may use session-related cookies such as woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart and wp_woocommerce_session_ to maintain cart and customer-session functions. The exact cookies used may depend on the features enabled on the website
6. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help provide additional website features and remember choices you make.
Depending on the features enabled on the website, these cookies may remember:
• Account and login preferences
• Recently viewed products
• Display or language preferences
• Form information during a browsing session
• Selected website or accessibility settings
• Other preferences that improve your shopping experience
Functional cookies are not always required for basic website operation, but disabling them may cause certain personalised features or saved preferences to stop working.
The functional cookies used may change as website features and plugins are updated.
7. Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies may be used to help us understand how visitors use the 021 Threadz website and how well different pages perform.
Where these tools are enabled, they may collect information such as:
• Pages visited and time spent on the website
• How visitors move between pages
• Device and browser information
• General traffic and performance information
• Errors or technical issues encountered while browsing
• How visitors reached the website
This information may be used to improve website performance, navigation, product pages and the overall shopping experience.
Analytics cookies will only be used where the relevant analytics service is installed and where any required cookie preference or consent has been obtained.
8. Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing and advertising cookies may be used where advertising or promotional services are enabled on the website.
These technologies may help us:
• Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
• Understand whether a visitor arrived through an advertisement
• Limit how often certain advertisements are shown
• Build audiences for advertising campaigns where permitted
• Measure conversions such as purchases or completed actions
• Provide promotional content that may be more relevant to visitors
Marketing cookies are not required for the basic operation of the website and should not be activated unless permitted by your cookie preferences and applicable law.
We will update this policy if specific advertising platforms or tracking technologies are introduced.
9. Third-Party Cookies and Services
Some features of the 021 Threadz website rely on third-party service providers, such as payment processors, website hosting services, security providers, embedded content or other integrations.
These third parties may place or access cookies where necessary to provide their services.
Third-party cookies may be used for purposes such as:
• Processing or securing payments
• Preventing fraud or malicious activity
• Providing embedded website functionality
• Measuring service performance
• Supporting analytics or advertising features where enabled
Third-party providers process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies. We encourage you to review the policies of services you interact with.
We will update this policy where significant new third-party tracking or cookie services are introduced.
10. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Where a cookie-preference tool is available on our website, you can use it to accept, reject or adjust categories of non-essential cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for core website functions such as security, cart management and checkout.
You can also manage cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to:
• View stored cookies
• Delete existing cookies
• Block some or all cookies
• Prevent websites from storing new cookies
• Receive a warning before a cookie is stored
Blocking or deleting cookies may cause certain website features, preferences, customer accounts, shopping carts or checkout functions to stop working correctly.
Browser controls differ depending on the device and browser you use, so please refer to your browser’s help or privacy settings for detailed instructions.
11. How Long Cookies Remain
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie and the service that created it.
Session cookies are generally temporary and are removed when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
Cookie durations may also change when WooCommerce, WordPress, plugins or third-party services are updated.
Where a cookie-preference tool is available, your consent or preference choices may also be stored so that the website can remember them when you return.
You can remove stored cookies at any time through your browser settings.
12. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time when our website, plugins, services or use of cookies changes.
The latest version of this policy will be published on this page.
We may also update our cookie-preference tool where new categories of non-essential cookies or tracking technologies are introduced.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically, particularly after significant changes to the website.
Changes to this policy do not remove any privacy rights available to you under applicable South African law.
13. Contact Us About Cookies
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, the cookies used on our website or your privacy preferences, please contact us.
You may also contact us if you want more information about a specific cookie or third-party service used by the 021 Threadz website.
Email: info@021threadz.co.za
Telephone: 0624228742
For broader information about how we collect, use, store and protect personal information, please also read our Privacy Policy.
Want to Manage Your Privacy?
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