What Cookies Are

Cookies are small files stored by a browser or device when you visit a website. Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags, and scripts. They help websites function, remember choices, protect transactions, and understand how visitors use pages.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies support security, fraud prevention, account sessions, shopping carts, checkout, form protection, load balancing, and other functions needed to provide the website. These cookies cannot always be disabled through website controls.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics and performance cookies help us understand visits, page use, navigation, device types, errors, and performance. The information is used to improve content, usability, event registration paths, and technical reliability.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies remember preferences and support enhanced features such as embedded media, saved selections, account tools, and event-related integrations.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing technologies may help measure campaigns, limit repeated messages, or present relevant information. These tools may recognize a browser across websites depending on the provider and your settings.

Third-Party Services

Payment providers, analytics platforms, embedded media, event tools, customer relationship systems, and social media services may set their own cookies. Their use is governed by their respective privacy and cookie policies.

Managing Cookies

You can use browser settings to block, delete, or limit cookies. Some privacy tools and browsers also provide controls for tracking technologies. Disabling essential cookies may affect registration, account access, shopping, checkout, forms, or other website functions.

Changes and Contact

This policy may be updated when technologies, services, or legal requirements change. Questions about cookie practices may be sent to community@scale-community.com.