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Cookie Policy

Last Updated: July 24, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how Retail Place (retailplace.blog) uses cookies and similar technologies, and your choices regarding cookies when you visit our blog, retailplace.blog (the “Site”). This policy should be read in conjunction with our main Privacy Policy, which provides more detail on how we process your personal data.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can remember your preferences, allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, and generally improve your browsing experience.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies:

  • Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you close your web browser. They are typically used to enable certain functionalities of the website, like keeping you logged in during a single Browse session.
  • Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set period (which can be minutes, days, or years) or until you manually delete them. They are often used to remember your preferences for future visits or to provide targeted advertising.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies for various purposes, including:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the Site to function correctly. They enable core functionalities like security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, the Site cannot provide basic services.
  • Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Site, such as which pages you visit most often, and if you experience any errors. This data is used to improve how our Site works and to understand the effectiveness of our content.
    • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics cookies to collect anonymous information about website traffic and usage. This helps us understand how users interact with our Site.
    • Hotjar: Hotjar uses cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information about user behavior (e.g., clicks, scrolls, mouse movements) on our Site to help us understand and improve the user experience.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
  • Advertising and Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with our permission.
    • Google AdSense: Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your past visits to our Site and other websites. These cookies allow Google and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Social Media Cookies: Some pages on our Site may feature social media buttons or widgets that allow you to share content or interact with social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, X {formerly Twitter}). These platforms may set their own cookies on your device when you interact with them.

3. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we work with various third-party service providers who may also set cookies on your device when you visit our Site. These third-party cookies are set by domains other than retailplace.blog and are typically used for analytics, advertising, or social media integration.

The third-party services that may set cookies on your device include:

  • Google (Google Analytics, Google AdSense): For website analytics and personalized advertising.
  • Hotjar: For website analytics and user experience insights.
  • Mailchimp: May use cookies related to embedded forms or sign-up processes, though primary use is email delivery.
  • One Signal: Primarily uses local storage and service workers for push notifications, but may employ limited cookie-like technologies for identification.

We do not have direct control over these third-party cookies. Please refer to the respective privacy and cookie policies of these third parties for more information on how they use cookies:

4. Your Cookie Choices and How to Manage Them

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by:

Opting Out of Personalized Advertising:

5. Other Tracking Technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use other similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”). These are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are used to track the online movements of web users or to access cookies. They are used in conjunction with cookies to collect information about your usage of our Site.

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy. You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us: