This Cookie Policy describes browser technologies used on the NCODE BIO website. The website is operated through Shopify and may rely on cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and comparable technologies supplied by Shopify or approved service providers.
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on a device when a website is visited. They may store a session identifier, preference, security value, analytics identifier, or other limited information. Some cookies expire when the browser closes, while others remain until their expiration date or deletion.
Similar technologies include local storage, software development kits, pixels, tags, and server-side event records. In this Policy, “cookies” includes these technologies where the context permits.
2. Why the Website Uses Cookies
Cookies may be used to operate Shopify pages, maintain security, prevent abuse, remember settings, measure performance, understand navigation, and improve the website. The exact cookies present may change when Shopify or another service provider updates its platform.
3. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies support functions that are reasonably necessary for the website to operate. They may help load pages, balance traffic, protect forms, maintain a secure session, store consent choices, detect suspicious requests, and preserve accessibility or display settings.
Because these cookies are required for core operation and security, they may remain active even when optional cookies are declined. Blocking them through the browser may cause pages, forms, or preferences to function incorrectly.
4. Preference Cookies
Preference cookies remember choices such as visual theme, language, region, or previously selected settings. For example, the website may use local storage to remember whether a visitor selected the Morning Light or Midnight Oil visual theme.
These cookies are not intended to identify a visitor beyond the preference or device context, although some technology providers may associate them with broader account or browser information under their own policies.
5. Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies may measure visits, page views, device categories, approximate location, referral sources, navigation paths, and performance events. This information helps identify broken pages, slow loading, confusing navigation, and content that visitors find useful.
Analytics may be aggregated or pseudonymous, but identifiers can still be treated as personal information under some privacy laws. Where consent is legally required, optional analytics should not be activated until consent is obtained.
6. Functional Third-Party Cookies
Third-party functions such as payment processing, embedded scheduling, fraud prevention, customer support, video, or document tools may place their own cookies when those features are used. NCODE BIO does not control the internal operation of third-party cookies.
A third-party provider may combine website activity with information from other sites or services if permitted by its terms and privacy notice. Visitors should review the applicable provider’s privacy information before using an optional embedded feature.
7. Advertising Cookies
NCODE BIO does not currently use the website to sell personal information or knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If advertising technology is introduced in the future, the website will provide legally required disclosures and choices.
A marketing cookie should not be treated as essential merely because it helps measure a campaign. Where required, it will be categorized separately and controlled through an appropriate consent mechanism.
8. Shopify Technology
Shopify may use cookies and related technologies to provide hosting, security, network performance, storefront functionality, fraud prevention, and platform analytics. Shopify may act independently for certain platform operations. Cookie names and retention periods can change as Shopify updates the service.
Because this Custom Liquid package does not independently set checkout or payment cookies, visitors may encounter additional Shopify technologies if ecommerce, customer accounts, or payment features are enabled elsewhere in the store.
9. Consent Choices
Where a cookie banner or preference center is available, visitors may accept, reject, or customize optional cookies. A consent choice may be stored in an essential cookie so the website can remember it. Visitors may need to repeat choices after deleting browser data, using another device, or when the cookie configuration materially changes.
Consent can be withdrawn for future optional cookie use through the same preference tool when available. Withdrawal does not make earlier lawful processing invalid.
10. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow users to view, block, or delete cookies. Browser settings may also limit third-party cookies, clear data on exit, or block tracking scripts. The location and wording of these controls depend on the browser and device.
Blocking all cookies may interfere with essential website operation. A visitor who disables cookies should test important pages and forms before relying on the website for a time-sensitive request.
11. Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and extensions can transmit a Global Privacy Control signal. Where applicable law requires recognition of a valid opt-out preference signal, NCODE BIO will process the signal as required for the browser or device from which it is received.
Because NCODE BIO does not currently sell personal information for money or knowingly share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, a valid signal generally confirms an existing practice rather than changing a sale or sharing setting.
12. Do Not Track
“Do Not Track” is a browser signal for which no single universal response standard has been adopted. The website does not use that signal to disable essential functions. Legally required privacy preference signals are handled separately.
13. Cookie Duration
Session cookies generally expire when the browser closes. Persistent cookies may remain for days, months, or longer depending on their purpose, vendor settings, legal requirements, and whether the visitor deletes them. Security and consent records may be retained longer than ordinary preference cookies.
NCODE BIO periodically reviews whether enabled cookies remain reasonably necessary and proportionate to their stated purpose.
14. Information Produced by Cookies
Cookie information may include IP address, device identifiers, browser and operating system details, timestamps, viewed pages, referring pages, approximate region, consent state, error reports, and session activity. It is used for the purposes described in this Policy and the Privacy Policy.
15. Changes to Cookie Use
Cookies may change when website features, Shopify settings, analytics tools, or legal requirements change. This Policy will be revised when a material new category of cookie is introduced or when required disclosures change.
16. Questions and Privacy Requests
Questions about cookies, browser identifiers, consent choices, or applicable privacy rights should be directed to the privacy email listed below. Include the device, browser, approximate date, and relevant page when reporting a technical issue, but do not send passwords or full payment card information.