Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Updated and Effective as of February 25, 2026
Table of Contents
- What Are Cookies
- Why We Use Cookies
- Types of Cookies We Use
- Cookie Consent and Your Choices
- Other Tracking Technologies
- Targeted Advertising
- Updates to This Cookie Policy
- Contact Us
1. What Are Cookies
This Cookie Policy explains how The Outdoor Kitchen Store (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at outdoorkitchenstore.com (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
First-party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting (in this case, The Outdoor Kitchen Store). Third-party cookies are cookies set by parties other than the website owner. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website, such as advertising, interactive content, and analytics. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits our Website and when it visits certain other websites.
In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or information that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information. In such cases, our Privacy Policy will apply in addition to this Cookie Policy.
2. Why We Use Cookies
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
Specifically, we use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- Website Operation: To enable the basic functions of our Website, including page navigation, shopping cart functionality, checkout processing, account authentication, and security.
- Performance: To monitor and improve the performance of our Website, including page load times, server response, and error detection.
- Functionality: To remember your preferences and settings, such as recently viewed products, product comparisons, and language or region selections.
- Analytics: To understand how visitors interact with our Website, including which pages are visited most frequently, how long visitors spend on the site, and how they navigate through the site. This helps us improve the design and content of our Website.
- Advertising: To deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests, to limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- Security: To help detect and prevent fraud, unauthorized access, and other malicious activity.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
The following table describes the categories of cookies we use on our Website and the purposes they serve.
| Cookie Category | Purpose | Examples of Providers |
|---|---|---|
| Essential / Strictly Necessary | Required for basic website operation: security, authentication, shopping cart, checkout, and session management. Cannot be rejected via the Cookie Consent Manager. | E-commerce platform provider; payment processors; security and fraud prevention services. |
| Performance and Functionality | Enhance website performance and functionality: remembering preferences, recently viewed products, comparisons, and live chat. Some features may be unavailable without these cookies. | Live chat providers; content delivery networks; load balancing services; product recommendation engines. |
| Analytics and Customization | Collect aggregated data on website usage: visitor counts, pages visited, traffic sources, time on pages, and marketing effectiveness to improve and customize the website. | Google Analytics; Microsoft Clarity; Bing Analytics; Adobe Analytics; similar platforms. |
| Advertising and Targeting | Deliver relevant advertisements, limit ad frequency, ensure proper display, and select ads based on interests. May track browsing activity across websites. | Google Ads; DoubleClick; Bing Ads; Facebook Pixel; email marketing platforms; retargeting services. |
Note: A detailed inventory of the specific cookies used on our Website, including cookie names, providers, types, and expiration periods, will be maintained and made available through our Cookie Consent Manager.
4. Cookie Consent and Your Choices
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights in the following ways:
Cookie Consent Manager
You can set your cookie preferences through our Cookie Consent Manager, which can be found in the notification banner that appears when you first visit our Website and is accessible at any time via the link in the footer of our Website. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected, as they are strictly necessary to provide you with our services.
If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted.
Browser Controls
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through browser settings. You can typically set your browser to refuse all or some cookies, to alert you when cookies are being set, or to delete cookies that have already been set.
- Google Chrome: chrome://settings/cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and Site Permissions
- Opera: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies
Please note that if you use different devices or browsers, you may need to indicate your cookie preferences on each device and browser separately.
Industry Opt-Out Tools
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): www.aboutads.info/choices
- Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC): www.youradchoices.ca
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): www.youronlinechoices.eu
Global Privacy Control (GPC)
Global Privacy Controls (GPC) offered by some web browsers are settings that automatically inform websites of your privacy preferences with regard to third-party online tracking. When you choose to turn on the GPC setting in your browser, your browser sends a special signal to websites, analytics companies, ad networks, plug-in providers, and other web services you encounter while browsing to exercise your privacy rights and request that the web application stop tracking your activity for certain purposes. We will honor GPC signals as required by applicable law.
5. Other Tracking Technologies
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, including the following:
Web Beacons (Tracking Pixels)
Web beacons are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier, enabling us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email that includes them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve Website performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies may impair their functioning.
Embedded Scripts
An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with our Website, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your device while you browse or interact with our Website, is active only while you are connected to our Website, and is deactivated or deleted when you disconnect.
Local Storage
Local storage technologies, such as HTML5 local storage objects, function similarly to cookies but can store larger amounts of data. These technologies are used to store preferences and to improve the performance and functionality of our Website. You can manage local storage through your browser settings, though the specific method varies by browser.
Flash Cookies (Local Shared Objects)
Our Website may use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations. If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications.
6. Targeted Advertising
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.
The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.
Under certain state privacy laws, these advertising practices may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. For more information about your rights and how to opt out, please refer to the “Targeted Advertising and Your Choices” and “Jurisdiction-Specific Rights” sections of our Privacy Policy.
7. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use, changes in our service providers, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other tracking technologies, please contact us:
- Phone: 813-875-EGGS (3447)
- Email: sales@outdoorkitchenstore.com
- Mailing Address: The Outdoor Kitchen Store, Attn: Privacy