Cookie Policy
1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how WHEATDEN, LLC uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with wheatden.com.
Cookies may be used to support essential website functions, maintain shopping sessions, remember preferences, improve website performance, assist with security, and support payment or checkout functionality.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that a website may store on a user's device or browser. They allow a website to recognize certain browser information during a visit or when the user returns at a later time.
Some cookies are necessary for basic website functions, while others may support preferences, performance measurement, security, or services provided by authorized third parties.
3. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies may be used when necessary for the operation of the website. These cookies can support functions such as maintaining a shopping cart, keeping a checkout session active, remembering account login status, protecting website forms, and maintaining basic security features.
Disabling essential cookies through browser settings may cause some parts of wheatden.com to function incorrectly or become unavailable.
4. Preference and Performance Cookies
Preference cookies may help remember settings or choices made during a visit so that website functions can operate more consistently when a user returns.
Performance or analytical technologies may also be used to understand general website activity, identify technical problems, evaluate page performance, and improve the usability of the website. Where consent is required by applicable law, these technologies will be used in accordance with applicable consent requirements.
5. Payment and Security Technologies
Checkout and payment services may use cookies or similar technologies to process transactions, maintain payment sessions, authenticate customers, reduce fraudulent activity, and protect payment systems.
Payments available through our website may be processed through Stripe and PayPal. These providers may use their own cookies, device information, transaction identifiers, or security technologies in accordance with their respective privacy and security practices.
wheatden.com also uses HTTPS and SSL/TLS encryption to help protect information transmitted between the customer's browser, our website, and authorized service providers. For additional information about payment security, please review our Payment Policy.
6. Third-Party Services
Certain website functions may depend on third-party service providers, including payment processors, hosting infrastructure, security services, website functionality providers, or other technology required to operate our services.
These providers may place or access cookies when necessary to perform their services. Their handling of information is governed by their own applicable privacy and cookie practices.
We do not authorize third-party cookies to be used for purposes unrelated to the services they provide to us where such use is within our control.
7. Cookie Choices and GDPR Rights
Where required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or other applicable privacy laws, users may be provided with choices regarding non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Users may also manage or delete cookies through their browser settings. Browser controls generally allow users to block cookies, remove stored cookies, or receive notifications when cookies are being placed.
Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality, saved preferences, account sessions, checkout features, or other services that depend on those cookies.
8. Data Retention and Privacy
The duration of individual cookies may vary depending on their purpose. Some cookies expire when a browser session ends, while others may remain for a limited period to support the function for which they were created.
Personal information obtained through cookies or similar technologies is handled in accordance with our data-retention practices. Customer personal data retained by WHEATDEN, LLC is generally kept for no longer than 1 year after it is no longer actively required, unless longer retention is required by applicable law, an unresolved transaction, fraud investigation, payment dispute, or legal obligation.
For complete information about how personal information is collected, protected, retained, and processed, please review our Privacy Policy.
9. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when necessary to reflect changes to our website, technology, service providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
The current version published on wheatden.com will apply from its stated effective date.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about cookies, privacy preferences, or the handling of personal information, please contact us at help@wheatden.com or visit our Contact Us page.
