This page explains the cookies and similar browser storage used on applegreenshop.com, what each kind is for, and how to control them. It sits alongside our privacy policy, which covers the wider question of what data we handle.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to keep and send back on later requests. It lets a site recognize a returning browser without asking you anything. Two related technologies do a similar job: local storage, which keeps a value in your browser until it is cleared, and session storage, which forgets it when you close the tab. Where this page says cookies, treat it as covering all three.
A first-party cookie is set by the site you are looking at, a third-party cookie by a different domain. This site runs no advertising networks, so there are no third-party ad cookies here. You will meet our own operational cookies, and Amazon’s once you leave for Amazon.
Categories used on this site
Strictly necessary
These make the site work and cannot really be switched off without breaking it. WordPress sets cookies to keep an administrator or editor logged in and to protect forms against cross-site request forgery. If you submit the contact form, a short-lived token may be stored so the submission can be validated. Visitors who never log in and never submit a form meet very few of these.
Performance and caching
This site is served through a caching layer so pages load without rebuilding themselves for every visitor. The caching plugin and the server in front of it may set a cookie to decide which cached version of a page to hand you, for example to make sure a logged-in editor sees the live page rather than a cached copy, or to keep mobile and desktop variants apart. These carry no personal detail about you. They are routing hints.
Analytics and measurement
We measure traffic with our own first-party analytics rather than an advertising network’s tag. It stores a randomly generated visitor identifier in your browser’s local storage and a session identifier in session storage, so that several page views in a row can be counted as one visit rather than several strangers. Those identifiers are random strings. They are not linked to a name, an email address or an account, because this site has no accounts.
Alongside those identifiers the analytics records the page you viewed, the page that referred you, your browser and operating system, your device type and language, and a coarse location worked out from your IP address, normally no finer than country. It also records when an outbound link to Amazon is clicked, so we can see which write-ups are useful enough that people act on them.
Functional extras
Some page features store a small preference in your browser, for example whether a table of contents is collapsed. Clearing it costs you nothing beyond the preference.
Amazon’s cookies, which we do not control
This is the part worth reading twice. When you click a buy link on this site you are sent to Amazon, and Amazon sets its own cookies in your browser at that point. Those cookies record that the visit came from us, which is how a qualifying purchase gets attributed to our Amazon Associates account. Amazon decides what those cookies contain, how long they last and what they are used for, all under Amazon’s own privacy notice and cookie policy.
We cannot read those cookies, cannot change them and cannot delete them for you. We do not learn your name, your address, your payment details or what ended up in your cart. If you want to control Amazon’s cookies you have to do it in your browser or in your Amazon account settings. Our affiliate disclosure explains the commercial relationship behind that click.
How to manage cookies in your browser
Every major browser lets you see stored cookies and site data, delete them for one site or for everything, block third-party cookies, and clear the lot automatically when you close the window. The controls live under Settings, then Privacy and security, then a section usually named Cookies and other site data or Cookies and site permissions. In Safari the equivalent lives under Settings, then Privacy, with per-site data under Manage Website Data. On a phone the same options sit in the browser app’s settings rather than the operating system’s.
Two practical notes. Clearing site data for applegreenshop.com removes the analytics identifiers described above, and your next visit simply counts as a new one. Blocking cookies globally is your right and this site will still be readable, but logging in and submitting the contact form depend on the strictly necessary cookies, so those will stop working. Private or incognito windows discard the whole lot when you close them.
Most browsers also offer a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. We do not sell personal information or share it for behavioral advertising, so there is nothing for such a signal to switch off.
Changes and questions
Plugins and hosting change over time, and the cookies a site sets change with them. We update this page as we become aware of differences. If you find a cookie on this site that is not described here, tell us at [email protected] and we will either explain it or remove it.