Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how The Advent Tree Shop uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website. It also explains your choices regarding these technologies.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site remember your preferences, improve your experience, and gather analytics to make the site better.

2. Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

• Enable essential website functions (e.g. shopping cart, login)
• Understand how visitors use our site (via analytics)
• Remember your preferences (e.g. language, cookie consent)
• Offer relevant content or promotions (if you’ve opted in)

3. Cookies we use

Necessary (always on)

• cookieyes-consent, wp_consent_*: remember your cookie choices (1 year)
• wp-wpml_current_language: remembers your language (1 day)
• WooCommerce cart and session cookies: make the shop and checkout work (session)

Analytics (only with your consent in the UK and EU)

• Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*, up to 2 years), provided by Google. It shows us how many people visit, which Advent Tree QR code brought them here, and which parts of the page they use, so we can improve the site.
• Microsoft Clarity (_clck 1 year, _clsk 1 day), provided by Microsoft. It shows us how pages are used, including anonymised recordings of clicks and scrolling, so we can find problems on the page.

Advertising (only with your consent in the UK and EU)

• Google Ads (_gcl_au, 3 months), provided by Google. It measures whether our adverts for Advent Trees lead to visits and orders.

4. Managing Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

• View what cookies are stored
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies from specific sites
• Set preferences for all websites

Please note: Disabling essential cookies may affect how our site functions.

5. Third-party services
Google (Analytics and Ads), Microsoft (Clarity) and PayPal set cookies on our behalf. You can read how they handle data in the Google Privacy Policy, the Microsoft Privacy Statement and the PayPal Privacy Statement.

6. Your choices
If you visit from the UK or EU, you can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the cookie button at the bottom of every page or this link:

Change my cookie settings

Wherever you are, you can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, or email us at contact@adventtree.network and we’ll help.

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If you have any questions about our use of cookies, feel free to contact us:

Email: contact@adventtree.network

Address: Available on request

updated: 23/08/2025