This Cookie Policy explains how RINGO DUA CORP uses cookies, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies on its website, including a storefront operated through Shopify. It should be read with our Privacy Policy.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
A cookie is a small text record stored by a browser at the request of a website. Cookies can remember a session, preserve cart contents, support security, maintain settings, or help understand how a site is used. A “first-party” cookie is set for the domain a person visits. A “third-party” cookie is associated with a different service that is embedded or integrated with that site.
Similar technologies include browser local storage, session storage, software development kit identifiers, pixels, tags, scripts, and server-side event records. These technologies differ technically but can serve related purposes, so this Policy refers to them collectively as “technologies” where appropriate.
2. Technologies intentionally included in this design
The RINGO DUA website code stores a value named ringo-dua-theme in browser local storage. That value records whether the visitor selected the dark or light visual theme. It does not contain the visitor’s name, contact information, project brief, or payment information. It remains on the device until the visitor clears site data or the code is changed.
The project inquiry form included in this design validates required fields in the browser and displays an on-screen completion message. As delivered, it does not transmit the entries, create a cookie, or store the entered form information. Connecting that form to another service changes the data practice and requires review of this Policy and the Privacy Policy.
3. Categories of technologies that may be used
Strictly necessary
Necessary technologies support functions requested by the visitor or essential to the secure operation of the storefront. Depending on enabled Shopify features, these can include session continuity, network routing, load balancing, fraud prevention, authentication, privacy choices, localization, checkout, and cart contents. Blocking necessary technologies may prevent checkout, cart, account, or security functions from operating.
Preference and functional
Preference technologies remember selections such as theme, language, region, accessibility choices, or interface state. The ringo-dua-theme local-storage value belongs to this category. Functional tools should not be used to build advertising profiles unless separately disclosed and, where required, consented to.
Measurement and analytics
Analytics technologies may measure page views, navigation, device and browser information, approximate location, referral source, errors, performance, and interactions. These tools help understand whether pages function as intended. They should be configured to collect only information reasonably needed, honor applicable consent choices, and use an appropriate retention period.
Advertising and targeting
Advertising technologies can measure campaigns, limit repeated ads, create audiences, or select advertising based on activity across services. RINGO DUA CORP does not intend to activate cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted-advertising technologies without updating this Policy and providing any legally required notice, consent, or opt-out mechanism.
4. Shopify and checkout technologies
If product checkout, customer accounts, cart, fraud analysis, analytics, or other Shopify services are enabled, Shopify may place or read technologies needed to provide those services. Shopify’s technology names, lifetimes, and functions can change as the platform evolves. For that reason, a static list in this Policy could become inaccurate. The live Shopify privacy configuration and current cookie scan should be treated as the source for the active store configuration.
Shopify may process information as a service provider for the merchant and, for some services, for its own purposes under its applicable terms and privacy documentation. RINGO DUA CORP remains responsible for reviewing the options it enables and presenting accurate customer-facing notices.
5. Third-party technologies
Installed Shopify applications, payment services, hosted fonts, content delivery networks, analytics tools, advertising channels, embedded video, customer support tools, fraud-prevention services, and social content can introduce separate technologies. The fact that a provider is technically available does not mean it is enabled on every visit. Each active provider must be identified and evaluated before launch.
A third party may receive a device identifier, IP address, browser data, page address, transaction event, or other information when its technology loads. Where that party independently determines its purposes, its own privacy notice applies to that processing.
6. Consent and preference controls
Where applicable law requires consent, optional analytics, preference, or advertising technologies should remain inactive until the visitor makes a choice. Refusing optional technologies should not prevent access to ordinary content, although features that rely on a declined technology may not be available. A visitor should be able to revisit the privacy settings and change the choice as easily as it was made.
Consent records may include the choice, time, region, policy version, and a limited technical identifier needed to remember and demonstrate the selection. A consent choice applies to the browser and device on which it is made unless a signed-in platform feature lawfully synchronizes it.
7. Browser and device controls
Most browsers allow a user to inspect, delete, or block cookies and site storage. Controls vary by browser and device. Removing all site data will also remove the stored RINGO DUA theme preference and may clear a cart, sign-in state, localization choice, and consent record. Blocking every cookie can make a commerce site unusable.
Private browsing can limit persistence but does not necessarily prevent servers or enabled providers from receiving ordinary request information. Device-level advertising controls may limit use of advertising identifiers but do not automatically disable every website technology.
8. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
Where required and technically supported, the website should treat a recognized opt-out preference signal, including Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of sale or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising for the sending browser or device. Because there is not a uniform legal standard requiring a response to every browser “Do Not Track” signal, the website may not respond to a generic Do Not Track setting unless required by applicable law.
9. Duration
Session technologies generally expire when the browser session ends, while persistent technologies remain until their stated expiration or deletion. Duration should be proportionate to purpose. Security and cart technologies may use short or transaction-related periods; consent and preference records may remain longer so the site can remember the visitor’s choice; analytics retention depends on configuration. The ringo-dua-theme preference remains until local site data is cleared.
10. Data collected through technologies
Depending on configuration, technologies may generate or receive IP address, browser and device characteristics, approximate region, session identifier, page address, referring page, interaction time, cart state, checkout state, privacy choice, error record, and campaign information. We use and disclose that information as described in the Privacy Policy and only for the purposes supported by the applicable category and choice.
11. Security and misuse prevention
Security technologies may help detect automated abuse, unauthorized access, payment fraud, malicious requests, or unusual behavior. Some security processing may be necessary even when optional analytics or advertising are declined because protecting the service and transaction is a legitimate and essential function.
12. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy when the website configuration, Shopify services, applications, providers, or legal requirements change. The current version will display a revised “Last updated” date. If a change requires new consent, affected optional technologies should not be activated for that purpose until the required choice is obtained.
13. Contact
Questions about a technology used on the website or a request to understand an available privacy control should identify the browser, device, page, approximate time, and nature of the issue where practical. Do not include passwords or full payment-card information.