COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: July 4, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Celestial Hours uses cookies, pixels, local storage, tags, and similar technologies when you visit thecelestialhours.com.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. Who we are
The data controller is:
Arturo González García
Trading as The Celestial Hours
NIF: 47708579R
Cáceres, Spain
Email: contact@thecelestialhours.com
Website: thecelestialhours.com
2. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files stored on or accessed from your browser or device when you visit a website.
Cookies and similar technologies can allow a website or a third-party provider to remember information about your browser, session, shopping cart, checkout, account, region, currency, consent choices, previous interactions, advertising clicks, or device.
Similar technologies may include:
• Pixels
• Tags
• Scripts
• Local storage
• Session storage
• Device identifiers
• Browser identifiers
• Server-side event identifiers
• Software development kits
• Tracking URLs and click identifiers
In this Cookie Policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies” unless the context requires otherwise.
3. Why we use cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
• Operate the website and checkout
• Keep the shopping cart working
• Process orders and payments
• Remember privacy and cookie choices
• Protect the website from fraud, abuse, and security risks
• Remember region, language, and currency preferences
• Understand how visitors use the website
• Measure ecommerce activity, including product views, cart activity, checkout activity, and purchases
• Measure the performance of marketing campaigns
• Attribute visits and purchases to advertising campaigns
• Improve the store experience
• Support advertising audiences and personalized advertising where permitted by law and consent choices
4. Legal approach by region
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other regions where prior consent is required, we do not use non-essential analytics, personalization, or marketing cookies unless you have given consent through our cookie banner or preference panel.
For visitors in the United States and other regions where opt-out rights may apply, we provide privacy choices where legally required, including options to opt out of certain sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising activities.
Required cookies that are strictly necessary for the website, cart, checkout, payments, security, fraud prevention, or privacy preferences may be used without optional consent.
5. Categories of cookies we use
We group cookies by purpose so that you can understand and manage them more easily.
5.1 Required cookies
Required cookies are necessary for the website and its services to operate correctly.
They may be used for:
• Website security
• Fraud prevention
• Shopping-cart functions
• Checkout and payments
• Customer accounts
• Order processing
• Region, language, and currency selection
• Privacy and consent preferences
• Load balancing
• Technical website operation
• Storefront functionality
Required cookies cannot be disabled through our cookie preference panel because parts of the website may not function without them.
5.2 Personalization cookies
Personalization cookies allow the website to remember choices or provide enhanced features.
They may be used for:
• Region preferences
• Currency preferences
• Language preferences
• Account or interface preferences
• Previously viewed content
• Storefront settings that improve your experience
Where required by law, these cookies are only used with your consent.
5.3 Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may be used to understand:
• How visitors reach the website
• Which pages and products are viewed
• How visitors navigate the store
• Whether technical errors occur
• General website performance
• Ecommerce activity
• Product views
• Cart activity
• Checkout activity
• Purchase activity
• Conversion performance
Analytics technologies may include Shopify analytics tools, Google Analytics 4, Google tags, and similar measurement technologies.
Where required by law, analytics cookies are only used with your consent.
5.4 Marketing and advertising cookies
Marketing and advertising cookies help us measure and improve advertising.
They may be used to:
• Measure advertising performance
• Attribute visits, cart activity, checkout activity, or purchases to advertising campaigns
• Store advertising click identifiers
• Limit repeated advertising
• Create, measure, or improve advertising audiences
• Support personalized, targeted, or interest-based advertising where permitted
• Understand how visitors interact with our store after seeing or clicking an advertisement
• Improve the relevance and performance of campaigns on platforms such as Meta and Google
Marketing technologies may include Meta Pixel, Facebook & Instagram by Meta technologies, Google advertising technologies, Shopify marketing technologies, and similar tools.
Where required by law, marketing cookies are only used with your consent.
6. Cookies and technologies we use or may use
The exact cookies set on your device may depend on your location, consent choices, browser settings, device, whether you are logged in, whether you reach the website through an advertisement, whether you use Shop Pay, and which Shopify or third-party features are active at the time of your visit.
The list below describes the main cookies and similar technologies we use or may use.
6.1 Required Shopify and storefront cookies
Cookie name: _shopify_essential
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required
Purpose: Contains essential information for the correct functionality of the store, including session, checkout, and anti-tampering information.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: _shopify_test
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required
Purpose: Checks whether cookies are supported by the browser.
Typical duration: Around 1 minute
Cookie name: cart
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required
Purpose: Stores information related to the shopping cart.
Typical duration: Up to 2 weeks
Cookie name: cart_currency
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required
Purpose: Stores cart currency information, including after checkout, to help initialize a new cart in the correct currency.
Typical duration: Up to 2 weeks
Cookie name: discount_code
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required / Functional
Purpose: Stores a discount code received through a URL parameter so that it can be applied at checkout.
Typical duration: Session or limited duration
Cookie name: localization
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required / Functional
Purpose: Helps localize the cart or storefront to the correct country or region.
Typical duration: Up to 2 weeks
Cookie name: shopify_pay
Provider: Shopify / Shop Pay
Category: Required / Functional
Purpose: Helps returning buyers use Shop Pay or related checkout features.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: login_with_shop_finalize
Provider: Shopify / Shop
Category: Required
Purpose: Facilitates login with Shop.
Typical duration: Around 5 minutes
Cookie name: storefront_digest
Provider: Shopify
Category: Required
Purpose: Stores access information for password-protected storefronts when applicable.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: privacy_signal
Provider: Shopify / Shop
Category: Required / Privacy preference
Purpose: Remembers privacy choices about cookies and online tracking, especially for marketing and advertising, based on applicable regional privacy laws.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: _tracking_consent
Provider: Shopify
Category: Privacy preference
Purpose: Stores a visitor’s tracking consent preferences if privacy rules are configured for the visitor’s region. Shopify may replace or change this technology over time.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year, where used
6.2 Shopify analytics and marketing cookies
Cookie name: _shopify_analytics
Provider: Shopify
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as storefront or checkout.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: _shopify_s
Provider: Shopify
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Identifies a browser session and store combination for analytics.
Typical duration: Around 30 minutes, rolling from last use, where used
Cookie name: _shopify_y
Provider: Shopify
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Shopify analytics identifier used to help distinguish visitors and measure store activity.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year, where used
Cookie name: shop_analytics
Provider: Shopify / Shop
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Contains buyer information used for analytics in Shop or related Shopify services.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: _shopify_marketing
Provider: Shopify
Category: Marketing
Purpose: Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as storefront or checkout.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year
Cookie name: _landing_page
Provider: Shopify
Category: Analytics / Marketing
Purpose: Captures the landing page when a visitor arrives from another site. Shopify may replace or change this technology over time.
Typical duration: Up to 2 weeks, where used
Cookie name: _orig_referrer
Provider: Shopify
Category: Analytics / Marketing
Purpose: Helps identify the referring website or source from which a visitor arrived. Shopify may replace or change this technology over time.
Typical duration: Up to 2 weeks, where used
6.3 Google Analytics 4 cookies
Cookie name: _ga
Provider: Google Analytics 4
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Used to distinguish users and measure website usage.
Typical duration: Up to 2 years by default, unless configured differently or limited by browser settings
Cookie name: _ga_<container-id>
Provider: Google Analytics 4
Category: Analytics
Purpose: Used to persist session state for a specific Google Analytics 4 property.
Typical duration: Up to 2 years by default, unless configured differently or limited by browser settings
Cookie name: _gid
Provider: Google Analytics / Google tag
Category: Analytics
Purpose: May be used by some Google analytics configurations to distinguish users over a shorter period.
Typical duration: Around 24 hours, where used
Cookie name: _gat or _gat_<property-id>
Provider: Google Analytics / Google tag
Category: Analytics
Purpose: May be used by some Google analytics configurations to manage request rate.
Typical duration: Around 1 minute, where used
6.4 Google advertising and conversion cookies
Cookie name: _gcl_au
Provider: Google advertising technologies / Google tag
Category: Marketing
Purpose: Used to store and track advertising or conversion information, including interactions with Google advertising.
Typical duration: Around 90 days, where used
Cookie name: _gcl_aw
Provider: Google Ads / Google tag
Category: Marketing
Purpose: Stores Google Ads click information to help attribute conversions to advertising campaigns.
Typical duration: Around 90 days, where used
Cookie name: _gcl_dc
Provider: Google advertising technologies
Category: Marketing
Purpose: May be used to help measure advertising campaigns and conversions.
Typical duration: Around 90 days, where used
Cookie name: _gac_<property-id>
Provider: Google Analytics / Google Ads
Category: Marketing / Analytics
Purpose: May store campaign information when Google Analytics and Google Ads are linked.
Typical duration: Around 90 days, where used
Cookie name: test_cookie
Provider: Google
Category: Marketing / Technical
Purpose: May be used by Google advertising services to check whether the browser supports cookies.
Typical duration: Around 15 minutes, where used
Google advertising cookies may only appear if Google Ads, conversion tracking, remarketing, enhanced conversions, Google tag, or related advertising features are enabled.
6.5 Meta Pixel, Facebook, and Instagram cookies
Cookie name: _fbp
Provider: Meta / Facebook & Instagram by Meta
Category: Marketing
Purpose: Identifies browsers for advertising, site analytics, conversion measurement, and campaign attribution related to Meta technologies.
Typical duration: Up to 90 days
Cookie name: _fbc
Provider: Meta / Facebook & Instagram by Meta
Category: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the Facebook Click ID when a visitor arrives with a fbclid parameter in the URL, usually after clicking a Facebook or Instagram advertisement. It helps attribute conversions to Meta advertising campaigns.
Typical duration: Up to 90 days, where applicable
Cookie name: fr
Provider: Meta
Category: Marketing
Purpose: May be used by Meta to deliver, measure, and improve advertising and to support advertising relevance.
Typical duration: Up to 90 days, where used
Cookie name: lastExternalReferrer
Provider: Meta
Category: Marketing / Analytics
Purpose: May be used by Meta technologies to store information about the last external referrer.
Typical duration: Persistent or limited duration, depending on Meta’s configuration
Cookie name: lastExternalReferrerTime
Provider: Meta
Category: Marketing / Analytics
Purpose: May be used by Meta technologies to store the time of the last external referrer.
Typical duration: Persistent or limited duration, depending on Meta’s configuration
Meta cookies may only appear if Meta Pixel, Facebook & Instagram by Meta, Meta Conversions API, Meta ads, embedded Meta content, or related Meta technologies are enabled.
6.6 Consent, privacy, and preference technologies
Cookie or storage name: Cookie preference records
Provider: Shopify or consent-management tools
Category: Required / Privacy preference
Purpose: Stores your cookie choices so that the website can remember whether you accepted, rejected, or configured optional cookies.
Typical duration: Up to 1 year or as configured
Cookie or storage name: Global Privacy Control signal handling
Provider: Browser / Shopify / privacy tools
Category: Privacy preference
Purpose: Where legally required and technically supported, a Global Privacy Control signal may be treated as a request to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising for the browser or device sending the signal.
Typical duration: Depends on browser and privacy tool settings
6.7 Other cookies and app-related technologies
Our store may also use cookies or similar technologies from providers that support payments, delivery, reviews, customer service, fraud prevention, email marketing, and social media integrations.
These may include providers such as:
• Shopify
• Shop Pay
• PayPal
• Payment processors
• Gelato
• Shipping and logistics providers
• Review platforms
• Email marketing providers
• Customer-service providers
• Security and fraud-prevention providers
• Social-media platforms
We will update this Cookie Policy if we introduce material new providers, tracking technologies, advertising platforms, or cookie categories.
7. Meta Conversions API and server-side events
Where enabled, Meta Conversions API may allow certain ecommerce events to be sent from our server or Shopify integration to Meta, rather than only through browser-based cookies.
These events may include, where permitted and depending on configuration:
• Page views
• Product views
• Add-to-cart events
• Checkout events
• Purchase events
• Order value and currency
• Event identifiers used for deduplication
• Browser or device information
• IP address
• User agent
• Hashed contact information, where enabled and permitted
• _fbp and _fbc values, where available
Meta Conversions API does not remove your cookie choices. Where consent or opt-out is required, we configure these technologies to respect applicable consent and privacy settings.
8. Google Consent Mode and consent signals
Where Google tags are used, consent settings may be used to communicate your cookie choices to Google technologies.
These settings may include:
• analytics_storage
• ad_storage
• ad_user_data
• ad_personalization
If you decline analytics cookies, Google Analytics cookies should not be used for optional analytics purposes on that browser or device where consent is required.
If you decline marketing cookies, Google advertising cookies should not be used for optional advertising, remarketing, or ad personalization purposes on that browser or device where consent is required.
9. Consent
Where consent is legally required, optional personalization, analytics, and marketing technologies remain disabled until you make a choice through our cookie banner or preference panel.
Our cookie banner and preference tools allow you to:
• Accept optional cookies
• Decline optional cookies
• Manage cookies by category
• Save your individual choices
Declining optional cookies does not prevent you from using the essential functions of the store.
If you decline analytics or marketing cookies, we will not use optional analytics or advertising cookies for those purposes on that browser or device, although essential technologies required to operate the store may still be used.
10. Managing or withdrawing consent
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie preferences link available in the footer of the website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking all cookies may prevent the cart, checkout, account, or other parts of the website from functioning correctly.
11. Global Privacy Control and U.S. privacy choices
Where legally required and technically supported, we treat a Global Privacy Control signal as a request to opt out of relevant sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising activities for the browser or device sending the signal.
Depending on your location, you may also have access to a “Your Privacy Choices” or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” page, which allows you to opt out of certain data sharing, sale, sharing, or targeted advertising activities where applicable.
We do not sell personal information for money. However, certain uses of advertising cookies, pixels, audience tools, or advertising measurement technologies may be considered “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” under some United States privacy laws.
12. Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to:
• See what cookies are stored on your device
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Set rules for specific websites
• Use private or incognito browsing modes
Browser controls are separate from our cookie preference panel. If you delete cookies, your saved preferences may also be deleted and you may be asked to make your cookie choices again.
13. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.
Because there is no uniform legal or technical standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, we do not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.
Where legally required and technically supported, we respond to Global Privacy Control signals as described above.
14. Cookie duration
Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a limited period or until you delete them.
The duration depends on:
• The purpose of the cookie
• The provider that sets it
• Your browser settings
• Your consent choices
• Whether you return to the website
• Whether the provider refreshes the cookie duration
• Legal or technical limitations that apply in your region or browser
The durations listed in this Cookie Policy are typical durations and may change if Shopify, Google, Meta, your browser, or another provider changes its technology or settings.
15. Third-party websites and services
Third-party providers may process information under their own privacy and cookie policies.
For example, Shopify, Google, Meta, PayPal, payment processors, and other service providers may process certain information in accordance with their own privacy terms when their technologies or services are used.
We do not control cookies placed directly by independent websites that you visit through external links.
16. International transfers
Some of the providers we use may process information outside your country or region, including in the United States.
Where required, transfers of personal information are protected through appropriate safeguards, such as contractual protections, adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
17. Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our technologies, providers, legal obligations, or business practices change.
We may also update this policy when Shopify, Google, Meta, or another provider changes the cookies, pixels, storage technologies, names, purposes, or durations used through our website.
The latest version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
18. Contact
For questions about this Cookie Policy or your privacy choices, contact:
The Celestial Hours
Arturo González García
NIF: 47708579R
Cáceres, Spain
contact@thecelestialhours.com