1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, or tablet when you browse websites. They are widely used to ensure websites function securely and efficiently, remember user preferences, and provide customized shopping experiences.
2. How We Use Cookies on Kriative Krafts
At Kriative Krafts, we believe in complete transparency. We only utilize cookies that are strictly essential for platform operation, account security, and basic functional convenience.
3. Essential Cookies (Strictly Necessary)
These cookies are critical for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems:
- laravel_session: Maintains your encrypted browsing session, user login state, and security validation between pages.
- XSRF-TOKEN: Protects our patrons against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) security vulnerabilities during checkout and form submissions.
4. Functional & Preference Cookies
These cookies enable enhanced platform features and personalized browsing:
- Theme Preference: Stores your Dark Mode / Light Mode display toggle choice in your browser localStorage.
- Cart & Wishlist Storage: Remembers your selected handcrafted jewelry items and craft supplies in your temporary shopping bag before you complete login.
5. Analytics & Performance Cookies
If enabled by the site administrator, we may use anonymized analytics tokens (such as Google Analytics) to understand aggregate visitor counts, popular craft categories, and site performance bottlenecks. These metrics never identify individual patrons personally.
6. Third-Party & Payment Gateway Cookies
When completing payment through our RBI-authorized payment gateways (PhonePe & Razorpay), these providers may set their own secure authentication cookies strictly to facilitate encrypted bank authentication and fraud prevention.
7. How You Can Manage or Disable Cookies
Most web browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings preferences:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-party cookies.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data.
Note: If you disable essential cookies, vital shopping features such as account login and checkout will not function.
8. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect technological or legal requirements. Any modifications will be posted here with an updated revision date.
9. Questions & Contact
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@kriativekrafts.com.