Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how House Wine ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website. This policy explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser, while session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To maintain your session and authentication state
- To remember your preferences and settings
- To analyse website traffic and user behaviour (analytics)
- To improve website functionality and user experience
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. These cookies cannot be disabled.
Examples:
- sb-auth-token: Stores your authentication session to keep you logged in
- age-verification: Remembers your age verification status
- cookie-consent: Stores your cookie consent preference
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
Google Analytics Cookies:
- _ga: Used to distinguish users. Expires after 2 years.
- _ga_<container-id>: Used to persist session state. Expires after 2 years.
- _gid: Used to distinguish users. Expires after 24 hours.
- _gat: Used to throttle request rate. Expires after 1 minute.
For more information about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer.
If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience all features of our website.
You can manage your cookie preferences through:
- Your browser settings (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.)
- Our cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit our website
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website and deliver advertisements on and through the website.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyse website usage. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about how visitors use our site. This information is used to compile reports and help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us through our contact page.