COOKIE POLICY
CHAPLYA uses cookies and similar technologies on chaplya.com to operate the online store, maintain essential website functionality, remember user preferences, support shopping and account features, and understand how the website is used where applicable. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, why they may be used on our website, the main categories of cookies involved, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser when you visit a website. They can allow a website to recognize a browser or device, maintain a shopping session, remember settings, support a shopping cart, and provide other functionality between page views or visits. Cookies may exist only for the duration of a browsing session or remain on a device until they expire or are deleted.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how CHAPLYA collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information.
HOW CHAPLYA USES COOKIES
Cookies and similar technologies help chaplya.com function as an e-commerce website. They may be used to keep products in your cart while you browse, maintain account sessions, remember cookie-consent choices, provide wishlist or other store functionality, protect the website against misuse, and preserve settings needed for a consistent browsing experience.
Some technologies may also be used to measure website performance, understand how visitors interact with pages, or support marketing and advertising features if those services are enabled. Where applicable law requires consent before non-essential cookies are used, those cookies should not be activated until the visitor has made the relevant choice through the cookie-consent controls available on the website. Guidance from the UK ICO, for example, requires a clear affirmative choice for non-essential cookies rather than treating continued browsing as consent.
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
Strictly necessary cookies are required for core website and store functionality and cannot generally be disabled through the website’s cookie-preference system without affecting essential features. These cookies may support functions such as maintaining the shopping cart, processing checkout steps, preserving account sessions, providing security features, storing consent choices, and ensuring that requests are handled correctly as you move between pages.
Because these technologies are necessary to provide functionality specifically requested by the visitor or to operate the website securely, they may be used without the same type of consent required for optional analytics or advertising technologies where applicable law permits. Disabling necessary cookies directly through your browser may cause parts of chaplya.com, including the cart, checkout, login, or other interactive features, to stop working correctly.
FUNCTIONAL AND PREFERENCE COOKIES
Functional cookies help the website remember choices or provide enhanced features that are not strictly required for basic page loading. Depending on the functionality enabled on chaplya.com, these technologies may help preserve interface preferences, remember selections, support wishlist functionality, or provide a more consistent shopping experience across different parts of the website.
If functional cookies are disabled, some optional features may no longer remember previous choices or may need to be configured again during a future visit. The availability of these cookies may depend on the plugins, store functionality, and services currently active on chaplya.com.
SHOPPING CART, CHECKOUT AND ACCOUNT COOKIES
WooCommerce and related store functionality may use cookies or session technologies to maintain information needed while you shop. For example, these technologies can help the website remember that an item has been added to a cart, maintain the contents of that cart as you browse other pages, identify changes to cart contents, and preserve a customer session during checkout.
Account functionality may also rely on cookies to recognize an authenticated session after a customer signs in. These technologies help provide access to account features such as order history and account information without requiring the customer to authenticate again on every page. The FTC specifically identifies online shopping carts and remembering users or preferences as common uses of cookies.
COOKIE CONSENT AND PREFERENCES
Chaplya.com provides cookie controls that allow visitors to review and manage available categories of optional cookies. Your consent preference may itself be stored so that the website can remember whether you accepted, rejected, or customized optional technologies and does not need to ask for the same choice every time a page is opened.
You can revisit your choices through the Cookie Settings option available on the website. Where the website uses a consent banner, optional cookies that require consent should follow the choice recorded through that system. Consent should be capable of being changed or withdrawn where applicable law requires this.
ANALYTICS AND PERFORMANCE COOKIES
CHAPLYA may use analytics and performance technologies to understand how visitors interact with chaplya.com when such tools are enabled. These technologies may collect information such as pages visited, navigation paths, referral sources, browser or device characteristics, approximate location derived from technical data, and interactions with website features.
The information can help us identify technical issues, understand which pages are useful to visitors, evaluate website performance, and improve navigation and the overall shopping experience. Where consent is required for analytics cookies, these technologies will be subject to the choices available through the website’s cookie-consent system.
MARKETING AND ADVERTISING COOKIES
If CHAPLYA enables advertising, remarketing, social-media advertising, or similar marketing technologies, those services may use cookies or comparable identifiers to measure campaigns, understand interactions with advertisements, or provide advertising based on previous activity where legally permitted. Such technologies can potentially recognize a browser over time and may involve information being transmitted to an external advertising or technology provider.
Marketing and advertising cookies are not required to complete an ordinary purchase through chaplya.com. Where applicable privacy law gives visitors the right to consent to, reject, or opt out of qualifying advertising, sale, or sharing activities, CHAPLYA will provide the appropriate choice through its cookie or privacy controls. California regulators have specifically addressed the need for websites to ensure that opt-out mechanisms associated with tracking technologies actually function as represented to users.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
Some website functionality may be provided by third parties, such as payment providers, analytics services, embedded content providers, security services, or other technology partners. When you interact with a third-party feature, that provider may place or access cookies according to its own technology and privacy practices.
CHAPLYA does not control every cookie placed directly by an independent third-party service. Where relevant, we encourage visitors to review the privacy and cookie information supplied by those providers, particularly when leaving chaplya.com or interacting directly with a third-party payment, social-media, or external service.
PAYMENT SERVICES
Checkout may provide access to third-party payment methods such as payment cards, digital wallets, PayPal, or other services configured by CHAPLYA. Payment providers may use cookies, fraud-prevention technologies, device information, or similar tools to authenticate transactions, maintain security, remember payment preferences, and provide their services.
The cookies or comparable technologies used directly by a payment provider may be governed by that provider’s own policies. Some payment-related technologies may be necessary to complete a transaction securely, while others may be subject to additional privacy choices depending on their purpose and applicable law.
FORMS AND EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS
When you submit a contact form or subscribe to CHAPLYA email updates, the website processes the information you enter in order to provide the requested service. Cookies or session technologies may also be used in connection with security, spam prevention, form functionality, or remembering applicable website preferences.
Newsletter and contact-form information is handled according to our Privacy Policy. Submitting a form or subscribing to email communications does not by itself mean that you have consented to unrelated advertising cookies, and cookie preferences remain governed by the controls provided through the website.
SESSION AND PERSISTENT COOKIES
Some cookies used on chaplya.com may be session cookies, which generally remain only while the browser session is active and are removed when that session ends. Other cookies may be persistent and remain stored for a defined period so that a preference, consent choice, account state, or other permitted information can be recognized during a later visit.
The duration of a particular cookie depends on its purpose and the service that created it. The cookie settings or consent interface available on chaplya.com may provide additional information about currently detected cookies, their providers, purposes, categories, and expiration periods where that information is available.
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
You can manage optional cookies through the Cookie Settings available on chaplya.com. These controls allow you to review available categories and change applicable consent choices without needing to stop using the website entirely.
Most browsers also allow users to delete existing cookies, block new cookies, restrict particular websites, or receive notifications when cookies are being stored. Browser controls operate separately from the CHAPLYA consent interface, and blocking all cookies through your browser may prevent essential store features from working properly. The FTC notes that browsers can generally be configured to warn users about or restrict cookies.
DO NOT TRACK AND OTHER PRIVACY SIGNALS
Some browsers or devices may send privacy-related signals intended to communicate a user’s tracking preferences. The legal requirements relating to these signals vary by jurisdiction and by the type of processing involved, and not every signal has the same legal effect.
Where CHAPLYA is legally required to recognize a supported opt-out preference signal or another privacy choice, we will handle that signal in accordance with the applicable requirements and the capabilities of the website’s privacy tools. Additional information regarding privacy rights and requests is available in our Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO THE COOKIES WE USE
The cookies and technologies used by chaplya.com may change as website functionality, WooCommerce features, payment services, analytics tools, security systems, or other integrations are added, removed, or updated. For that reason, the exact technical list of cookies detected on the website may change even when the general categories and purposes described in this policy remain the same.
CHAPLYA may update this Cookie Policy when our website technology, business practices, or applicable requirements change. The current policy published on chaplya.com, together with the live Cookie Settings interface, should be used to understand the cookie practices currently applicable to the website.
YOUR PRIVACY
Information obtained through cookies may in some circumstances qualify as personal information or be associated with other information about a visitor. How CHAPLYA handles personal information, the purposes for which information may be processed, the parties with whom it may be shared, and the privacy rights that may apply are described in our Privacy Policy.
Cookie controls do not replace other privacy rights that may be available under applicable law. If you have a privacy request concerning information associated with your use of chaplya.com, you can contact us using the details provided below.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, the cookies used on chaplya.com, or your available cookie preferences, contact CHAPLYA at hello@chaplya.com. You can also use the Cookie Settings available on the website to review or update your preferences for optional cookies.
CHAPLYA is based in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. For additional information about how we handle personal information, please review our Privacy Policy, and for general conditions governing use of chaplya.com, review our Terms & Conditions.
