Cookies Policy

This policy explains cookies and similar technologies used in connection with tribalmerchant.shop, operated by TRIBAL MERCHANTS LTD, trading as tribalmerchant. Read it with our Privacy Policy, which explains personal-information processing, the business responsible and your data-protection rights.

What cookies and similar technologies do

Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your device by a website. Similar technologies can also store information, recognise a browser or record interactions. They can support a shopping basket, remember a choice, protect a session or help understand how a website is used.

A technology's privacy effect depends on its purpose, the information involved and who can access it. Some information lasts only for the browsing session; other information can remain after the browser is closed. A cookie does not need to contain your name to involve information related to you or your device.

Our cookie-preferences panel

The website provides a Cookie preferences link in the footer. The panel includes required, personalisation, marketing and analytics categories. It provides controls to Accept all, Decline all, or Save my choices after selecting individual optional categories.

Required functionality remains enabled because it supports the operation of the store. Declining optional categories should not prevent you from using the basic purchasing functions. You can revisit the panel to change your choices; accepting optional categories is not a condition of placing an order.

Required functionality

Required technologies support functions such as keeping items in the basket, maintaining an account or checkout session, helping protect the service, and remembering privacy choices. Without necessary session information, a basket or login may not work reliably between pages.

The required category is separate from optional personalisation, marketing and analytics. Its availability does not itself indicate that you have agreed to optional advertising or measurement.

Personalisation

Optional personalisation can use information about your actions to make later visits more relevant or remember preferences beyond what is essential to provide the requested service. The options available depend on the features enabled for the store.

You can choose whether to allow this category in the cookie-preferences panel. A saved choice on one browser does not necessarily apply to a different browser or device.

Marketing

Optional marketing technologies can support advertising, the relevance of marketing communications, or measurement of those activities. The store's panel describes marketing involving us and our partners, including Shopify, and advertising on other websites.

Use the marketing category in the panel to manage the website's optional marketing choice. Your choices within an external platform, such as Instagram or Etsy, are managed separately by that platform. Following a link does not transfer all of your website privacy choices to the external service.

An email-marketing subscription is also a separate choice. To stop marketing emails, use the unsubscribe link or contact support@tribalmerchant.shop. Changing a cookie preference alone does not necessarily change an email subscription.

Analytics

Optional analytics can help understand how visitors interact with the store, which pages are useful and where navigation or performance could be improved. Depending on the enabled service, it can involve information about a device, page visits and interactions.

You can manage the analytics category through the panel. The presence of this category is a control for optional measurement; the information processed depends on the analytics services actually enabled.

Changing or withdrawing a choice

Open Cookie preferences in the website footer, adjust the optional categories and save the choices. You can also choose to decline all optional categories. Withdrawing consent applies to future use governed by that choice and does not make earlier lawful processing unlawful.

Deleting cookies, using private browsing or changing browser or device can remove or separate a saved preference. You may need to set your choice again. Existing information may remain with a provider for an applicable retention period; data-protection requests are explained in the Privacy Policy.

Browser settings and stored information

Your browser also provides controls to inspect, delete or block cookies and other site data. These controls are usually in privacy, security or site-settings menus. Blocking all storage can affect required shopping functions as well as optional technologies.

Some cookies are session-based and others are persistent. Lifetimes and provider arrangements vary by technology. You can inspect information stored by your browser and contact us for information about a particular cookie or provider. Information shown in browser storage may not cover every server-side processing activity; the Privacy Policy provides the wider context.

Third parties and external websites

Shopify supplies the ecommerce platform. Other service providers may participate in payments, delivery, communications or optional features. Their role and handling of information depend on the service concerned and any applicable privacy choices.

Our links to Etsy and Instagram lead to separate platforms with their own cookie and privacy controls. Consult those controls if you use their services.

Questions and updates

For questions about a cookie, include the name shown in your browser where possible, the page where you encountered it and the browser you are using. Avoid sending unrelated browsing history or sensitive account information.

We may update this policy when the store's technologies or controls change. Where a new use requires consent, updating the written policy alone does not provide that consent.