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Cookies

We use cookies on www.castleofgifts.store and its related domains (together, the “Website”), as explained in this Cookie Policy. Below, you can find clear information about the cookies we use, why we use them, how consent works, and how you can manage your choices.

 

Please note: cookies used by the Website may change when our ecommerce platform, plugins, payment services, security tools or analytics configuration are updated. The cookie banner and this policy should therefore be read together.
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Last Update: July 2026

General Information

Who is responsible for cookies on the Website?
3D TEXTILE PATTERN SRL, the Romanian company operating Castle Of Gifts and Designora Studio, is responsible for the cookies and similar technologies that it chooses to use on the Website. Some third-party services may also place or access cookies when their tools are used on the Website. Where they determine their own purposes and methods of processing, their own privacy and cookie notices also apply.
What does this Cookie Policy cover?

This policy covers cookies and similar technologies used on www.castleofgifts.store.

It explains:

  • what cookies and similar technologies are;

  • which categories of cookies we use;

  • which technologies are necessary for the Website to function;

  • which technologies require your consent;

  • how cookies support shopping-cart, account, checkout and customs-information functions;

  • how Google Analytics is used;

  • how third-party services may use cookies; and

  • how you can manage or withdraw your cookie choices.

This policy does not replace the privacy notices of third-party websites or services that you may access through external links.

For broader information about how Castle Of Gifts processes personal data, see our Privacy Policy.

How does this Cookie Policy relate to the Privacy Policy?
This Cookie Policy focuses specifically on cookies and similar technologies. Our Privacy Policy explains more broadly how we collect, use, store, share and protect personal data, as well as the rights you have regarding that data.
What should you know about cookies? 

A cookie is a small text file or similar piece of information that a website can store in your browser or device.

Cookies can help a website recognize a browser or session, maintain a shopping cart, keep a customer logged in, remember preferences, support secure checkout and record cookie-consent choices.

Some cookies remain only for the current browsing session, while others remain for a defined period so that the Website can recognize a returning browser.

Cookies do not automatically reveal your identity by name, but cookie identifiers and information connected with them may constitute personal data where they can identify or distinguish an individual directly or indirectly.

What are similar technologies? 
Websites may also use technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and similar identifiers. They may operate differently from traditional cookies but can serve related purposes, such as remembering preferences, measuring Website activity or supporting security. In this policy, references to “cookies” may also include these comparable technologies where appropriate.
Are cookies personal data?
A cookie does not always identify you by name. However, cookie identifiers, IP addresses, device information and browsing activity may identify or single out a person directly or indirectly, especially when combined with other information. Where cookie-related information is personal data, we handle it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law.

Types of Cookies 

What is the difference between first-party and third-party cookies? 
First-party cookies are placed by the Website domain itself. Third-party cookies are placed or accessed by another service whose technology is integrated into the Website, such as an analytics, payment, security or embedded-content provider.
What is the difference between session and persistent cookies? 
Session cookies are temporary and usually remain active only until you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device until their expiration date or until you delete them. Some persistent cookies remember preferences or recognize a returning browser.
What cookies do we use? 

Castle Of Gifts currently uses the following main categories of cookies and similar technologies:

Essential technical cookies
These are necessary for core Website functions such as security, customer sessions, account access, shopping-cart continuity, checkout, payment processing, cookie-consent records and other services that you actively request.

Preference cookies
These remember optional choices or settings that improve your experience. Where a preference technology is not strictly necessary for a service you request, it is activated only with the required consent.

Statistics cookies
These help us understand how visitors use the Website and how the Website performs. Our statistics technologies may include Google Analytics and are treated as non-essential.

If advertising or targeting technologies are introduced in the future, they will be identified separately and will not be treated as essential cookies.

What are essential technical cookies? 

Essential technical cookies and similar technologies are used where necessary to operate the Website or provide a service that you request.

They may support functions such as:

  • Website and account security;

  • login and authentication;

  • shopping-cart continuity;

  • WooCommerce customer sessions;

  • checkout;

  • payment processing;

  • fraud prevention;

  • remembering cookie-consent choices; and

  • maintaining information needed during the shopping and checkout process.

For example, WooCommerce session technologies can allow the Website to remember that products are in your cart and associate your current shopping session with information needed to complete checkout.

Where these technologies are strictly necessary to provide the Website or a service you have requested, they may operate without opt-in cookie consent.

Blocking them through your browser may prevent important parts of the shop, cart, account or checkout from working correctly.

What are preference cookies? 

Preference cookies remember optional choices that improve the Website experience, such as certain display, language or other user-interface settings.

Where a preference cookie is not strictly necessary to provide a service you request, it is treated as a non-essential cookie and is activated only after the required consent.

Information such as a billing or shipping country that is required to process an order, calculate delivery options or display relevant customs information may instead form part of the essential WooCommerce shopping or checkout session and should not be confused with optional preference tracking.

Do cookies or similar technologies help show customs information?

Castle Of Gifts uses country-level information to determine which customs information is relevant to a customer.

Before you provide a delivery country, the Website may use approximate country information derived from your IP address. This geolocation check can take place on the server and does not require us to use a non-essential advertising or analytics cookie.

Once you provide billing or shipping information, the country associated with your WooCommerce customer session may be used instead.

The Website then compares your customs region with the production regions available for the products you are viewing or purchasing. This allows a Customs Information notice to be displayed where a product may be produced outside your customs region.

The customs-warning system is an operational shopping function. It is not used to determine your precise physical location or to create an advertising profile.

What are statistics cookies?

Statistics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website and how the Website performs.

Depending on the analytics configuration and the consent you provide, they may help us understand information such as:

  • which pages are visited;

  • how visitors navigate between pages;

  • session and engagement information;

  • general device and browser characteristics;

  • approximate geographic information;

  • referral information; and

  • Website performance or technical errors.

We use this information to improve Website performance, usability, navigation and content.

Our statistics technologies may include Google Analytics.

Statistics and analytics cookies are non-essential and are not activated before the required consent has been obtained.

Do we use advertising or targeting cookies? 

Castle Of Gifts does not currently use advertising, remarketing or cross-site targeting cookies as part of its standard Website configuration.

If we introduce advertising or social-media tracking technologies in the future, we will identify them in the Website's cookie settings, update this policy where necessary and obtain consent before activating them where required by law.

Advertising technologies will not be classified as essential cookies.

How long do cookies remain on my device?
The duration depends on the cookie. Session cookies normally expire when the browser closes. Persistent cookies remain until their specified expiration date or until you delete them. Third-party providers may set their own durations, which are governed by their technical configuration and notices.

Cookie Consent 

How can I manage or disable cookies?
When you visit the Website for the first time, we ask for your consent to non-essential cookies through a cookie consent banner. We may ask again if your saved preference expires, you clear browser storage, the Website cannot retrieve your previous choice, or our cookie purposes or providers change materially.
Which cookies are used before I provide consent? 

Before you provide consent, Castle Of Gifts uses only cookies or similar technologies that are strictly necessary to operate the Website or provide services that you request.

These can include technologies required for:

  • Website security;

  • cookie-consent records;

  • customer sessions;

  • shopping carts;

  • account functions;

  • checkout;

  • payment functions; and

  • other essential ecommerce operations.

Non-essential preference, statistics, analytics, advertising or targeting technologies are not activated before the required consent has been obtained.

Can I accept or reject non-essential cookies? 
Yes. You are free to accept or reject non-essential cookies through the cookie consent banner. Refusing them will not prevent you from browsing the main content or placing an order, although some optional functions or personalized settings may be unavailable.
Can I choose which types of cookies to accept? 
Where the cookie banner provides category settings, you can choose which non-essential categories to allow. Essential cookies remain active because they are needed for requested Website functions.
Are non-essential cookies disabled by default? 

Yes.

Non-essential cookies are disabled unless and until you provide the required opt-in consent.

Silence, inactivity, pre-selected choices or simply continuing to browse the Website are not treated as consent.

You may reject non-essential cookies without losing access to the main shopping functions of Castle Of Gifts.

How is my cookie choice remembered?
A strictly necessary consent cookie or similar record may store your selection so that the Website can respect it. This record may include the categories selected, the date of your choice and the version of the consent notice.
Can I change or withdraw my consent later? 

Yes.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the Cookie Settings control available on the Website.

You can also delete or block cookies using your browser or device settings.

Withdrawing consent affects future use of the relevant non-essential technologies. It does not make processing that lawfully occurred before withdrawal unlawful.

Will withdrawing consent remove cookies already stored on my device? 
Not necessarily. The Website may be able to stop using or remove some non-essential cookies, but third-party cookies may remain until they expire or you delete them through your browser. The browser instructions below explain how to remove stored cookies.
What happens if I reject non-essential cookies? 
You can still use the Website, but we may not be able to provide the best possible user experience. For example, some preferences may not be remembered and we may receive less information about Website performance and errors.

Managing and Disabling Cookies

How can I manage or disable cookies?

You can manage cookies in two main ways:

Website Cookie Settings
Use the Castle Of Gifts cookie settings to accept, reject or change your choices for non-essential cookie categories.

Browser or device settings
Most browsers allow you to delete stored cookies, block particular websites, block third-party cookies or prevent cookies from being stored.

Blocking essential cookies can prevent shopping-cart, account, login or checkout functions from operating correctly.

Where can I find browser cookie-management instructions? 

Cookie-management instructions are available from the major browser providers, including:

  • Apple Safari

  • Google Chrome

  • Mozilla Firefox

  • Microsoft Edge

Your browser or device provider may change its settings and instructions over time, so use the provider's current privacy or cookie-settings documentation.

Private-browsing modes, browser privacy extensions and automatic cookie-deletion settings may also affect how cookies operate on the Website.

Can browser settings override my Website choice? 
Yes. Browser blocking, private-browsing mode, privacy extensions or automatic deletion settings may prevent cookies from being stored even after you consent. They may also delete the consent record, causing the cookie banner to appear again.
What happens if I disable all cookies?
If you disable all cookies, the Website may be unable to maintain your session, keep products in your cart, remember login status, process checkout correctly or retain your preferences. Blocking only non-essential cookies usually has less impact on core shopping functions. 

Third-Party Cookies and Services 

Can third parties place cookies on the Website? 

Yes.

Some third-party services integrated into Castle Of Gifts may place or access cookies or similar technologies when their services are used.

These may include:

  • payment providers;

  • security and fraud-prevention services;

  • analytics providers;

  • embedded-content providers; and

  • other technical services integrated into the Website.

Whether a third-party technology is treated as essential or non-essential depends on its purpose.

For example, a technology genuinely required to complete a payment requested by you may be necessary, while analytics, advertising or tracking technologies require the applicable consent before activation.

Do payment providers use cookies? 

Payment providers may use cookies or similar technologies to establish secure payment sessions, authenticate transactions, prevent fraud and complete payments.

Technologies genuinely necessary to process a payment that you request may operate as essential technologies.

Payment providers may also have their own privacy and cookie practices when you interact with their services.

Any separate analytics, advertising or tracking technologies that are not necessary to process the requested payment remain subject to the applicable consent requirements.

Are third-party cookies governed only by this policy?
No. This policy explains why third-party technologies are integrated into our Website and how we control their activation where possible. Third-party providers may process information for their own purposes under their own privacy and cookie notices.
Can third-party cookie data be processed outside the EU or EEA? 
Yes, depending on the provider. Some providers may process data in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area. Our Privacy Policy explains international data transfers and the safeguards used where we are responsible for those transfers.

Google Analytics

Do you use Google Analytics? 

Yes, where Google Analytics is enabled through the Website's consent configuration.

Google Analytics is an analytics service provided by Google that helps us understand how visitors use Castle Of Gifts and how the Website performs.

Google Analytics is treated as a non-essential statistics service and is not activated for analytics purposes before the required consent has been provided.

You can reject statistics cookies when the cookie banner appears or change your choice later through Cookie Settings.

What information does Google Analytics collect?
Depending on the Google Analytics configuration, the service may collect information about pages visited, interactions, approximate location, device and browser type, referral source, session duration, errors and other Website activity. This information is used to create statistical reports and improve the Website.
Does Google Analytics use cookies? 

Yes.

Google Analytics can use first-party cookies and similar identifiers to distinguish browsers or sessions and generate Website-usage statistics.

For example, Google identifies _ga as a principal Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish visitors.

Castle Of Gifts treats Google Analytics cookies as non-essential statistics cookies. They are activated only after the required analytics consent has been provided.

Can Google Analytics identify me? 

Google Analytics is not intended to identify Castle Of Gifts visitors by name.

However, analytics information can include online identifiers and usage information that may qualify as personal data under data-protection law.

For Google Analytics 4, Google states that IP addresses are used temporarily at collection time to derive general geographic information and are then discarded before being logged or stored in Google Analytics.

For users in the European Union, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Google states that individual IP addresses are not logged or stored by Google Analytics.

Because analytics identifiers and Website activity may still constitute personal data, Castle Of Gifts applies the consent and privacy protections described in this Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.

Where is Google Analytics information stored?

Google Analytics information is processed using Google's technical infrastructure and may involve processing in different countries, including countries outside the European Economic Area.

Where Castle Of Gifts is responsible for an international transfer of personal data, the safeguards described in our Privacy Policy apply.

Google also publishes information about how it processes and protects Analytics data under its own privacy and security documentation.

How can I reject or disable Google Analytics?

You can reject the Statistics category when the Castle Of Gifts cookie banner appears.

If you previously accepted statistics cookies, you can withdraw that consent later through the Website's Cookie Settings.

You can also:

  • delete stored Analytics cookies through your browser;

  • use browser privacy controls; or

  • use Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on where supported.

Withdrawing consent prevents future consent-based Analytics use through Castle Of Gifts but does not make earlier lawful processing unlawful.

Where can I read more about Google Analytics privacy practices? 
Google’s information about safeguarding Analytics data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Cookie List and Updates 

Where can I find the current cookie categories?

The Website's cookie banner or Cookie Settings panel provides the current cookie categories available on Castle Of Gifts.

The principal categories currently used are:

  • Essential technical cookies;

  • Preference cookies, where applicable; and

  • Statistics cookies, including Google Analytics where consent has been provided.

Because ecommerce plugins, payment services and other Website technologies can change, the Cookie Settings panel should be read together with this Cookie Policy.

Where the Cookie Settings panel provides individual cookie details, it is the most current source for cookie names, providers, purposes and durations.

Why might I see WooCommerce cookies?

Castle Of Gifts uses WooCommerce to provide ecommerce functions.

WooCommerce may use first-party session technologies to support functions such as:

  • remembering products placed in your cart;

  • identifying whether the cart contains items;

  • associating your browser with your current shopping session;

  • maintaining account or checkout information; and

  • completing the purchasing process.

These technologies are generally used to provide ecommerce functions requested by the customer and may therefore be treated as essential where they are strictly necessary for those functions.

The exact cookie names and durations can change when WooCommerce or related Website components are updated.

Why can the cookies used on the Website change? 

Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data, you may have rights including:

  • access;
  • rectification;
  • erasure;
  • restriction of processing;
  • data portability where applicable;
  • objection;
  • withdrawal of consent; and
  • the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection supervisory authority.

The availability of a particular right depends on the legal basis, type of processing and other conditions under applicable data-protection law.

More information is available in our Privacy Policy.

How will I be informed about important changes? 
We may update this page, show a notice or ask for consent again where a change affects non-essential cookie purposes or providers. The current version of the Cookie Policy will always be published on the Website.

Privacy Rights and Children

What privacy rights do I have regarding cookie-related data? 
Where cookie-related information is personal data, you may have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent, subject to applicable conditions and exceptions. Further details are available in our Privacy Policy.
How can I object to analytics cookies?
Reject the statistics category in the cookie banner or disable it later through cookie settings. You can also use the Google Analytics opt-out add-on or your browser’s cookie and tracking controls.

Contact Details 

How can I contact you about cookies or tracking technologies?

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies or similar technologies, or your cookie choices, contact:

3D TEXTILE PATTERN S.R.L.
Website: www.castleofgifts.store
Email: info@castleofgifts.store

If your question concerns a technical cookie issue, please describe the browser and device used, the approximate date and time of the problem and what happened.

Screenshots may be useful where relevant.

Please do not send passwords, full payment-card information or unnecessary identity documents by email.

What information should I include in a cookie-related request? 

Where relevant, include:

  • your name and email address;

  • a short description of the issue;

  • the approximate date and time it occurred;

  • the browser and device used;

  • the cookie category or service concerned, if known; and

  • screenshots where they are useful.

Do not send passwords, full payment-card details or unnecessary identity documents.