Cookie Policy
Effective Date: June 13, 2025
Welcome to Aurality! This website, https://www.aurality.com/, uses cookies and similar technologies to enhance your Browse experience, analyze site traffic, personalize content and advertisements, and improve our services.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, how third parties may use cookies on our site, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They’re widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes, including:
- Operating Our Store: Some cookies are essential for the basic functionality of our WooCommerce store, such as allowing you to add products to your cart, proceed to checkout, and log into your customer account.
- Analytics and Performance: We use cookies to gather information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often, how much time they spend on the site, and if they encounter any errors. This helps us to improve our site’s performance and usability.
- Personalization: Cookies help us remember your preferences (e.g., language, currency, viewing options) to provide you with a more personalized shopping experience.
- Advertising and Marketing: We may use cookies to display relevant advertisements to you on our site or on third-party platforms based on your interests and Browse activity. This includes retargeting ads to show you products you’ve viewed.
- Social Media Features: Some cookies may be set by social media platforms if you interact with our social media pages or use sharing features on our site.
Types of Cookies We Use
Below are the categories of cookies that may be used on our WooCommerce site:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies (Essential Cookies): These cookies are essential for the operation of our WooCommerce store and enable core functionalities like security, network management, and accessibility. They’re typically set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as adding items to your cart, logging in, or filling out forms. You cannot opt-out of these cookies as the website would not function properly without them.
- Examples specific to WooCommerce:
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: Stores information about the cart.woocommerce_items_in_cart
: Stores information about the products in the cart.wp_woocommerce_session_
: Contains a unique code for each customer so it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.- Please note: The exact names and number of these cookies may vary based on your WooCommerce version and specific configurations.
- Examples specific to WooCommerce:
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
- Examples:
- Google Analytics: Used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, including the number of visitors, where visitors have come from, and the pages they visited.
- Typical cookies:
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,_gid
,_gat_UA-[property-id]
- Typical cookies:
- Google Analytics: Used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, including the number of visitors, where visitors have come from, and the pages they visited.
- Examples:
- Functional Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you don’t allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
- Examples:
- Cookies that remember your selected currency or language preference.
- Examples:
- Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They don’t store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you don’t allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
- Examples:
- Google Ads / Google AdSense: Used to track conversions and display personalized ads.
- Typical cookies:
IDE
,NID
,_gcl_au
- Typical cookies:
- Facebook Pixel: Used to measure, optimize, and build audiences for advertising campaigns.
- Typical cookies:
_fbp
,fr
- Typical cookies:
- Google Ads / Google AdSense: Used to track conversions and display personalized ads.
- Examples:
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on. These third-party cookies are set by entities other than Aurality, such as Google, Facebook, Stripe, or other marketing partners.
For more information on how these third parties use cookies, please refer to their respective privacy/cookie policies:
- Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
- Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy (for payment processing related cookies)
- MyAccount: (As this refers to a general feature, likely tied to WooCommerce’s built-in user management, specific external cookie policies would depend on any additional plugins or services used for “MyAccount” functionality beyond core WooCommerce. If it’s just the default WooCommerce customer account, it’s covered by the “Strictly Necessary” section. If it’s a specific external service, please provide its name for a link.)
How to Manage Your Cookies
You have the ability to control and manage cookies in various ways. Please note that deleting or blocking cookies may impact your user experience and may make some parts of our website inaccessible.
- Through Your Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. For more information on how to manage cookies through your browser settings, please refer to your browser’s help information:
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-5791-d2c232ca870c
- Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
- Through Our Cookie Consent Tool (Cookie Banner): Upon your first visit to our site, you’ll see a cookie consent banner that provides you with choices regarding the use of non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the [Link to your Cookie Settings / “Manage Cookie Preferences” button] usually found in the footer of our website.
- Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising: You can opt-out of receiving targeted advertising from certain advertising networks through initiatives such as:
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): https://www.www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
- For EU users: European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a new “Effective Date.” We encourage you to regularly review this Cookie Policy for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
- By email: info@aurality.com
- By visiting this page on our website: https://www.aurality.com/contact-us/
- By phone: 1-(833) 287-2548
- By mail: 580 Herndon Pkwy #350 Herndon, VA 20170