Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how CardCraft Academy Ltd ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website. It details what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.

2. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

3. 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 Online Academy.

4. Strictly Necessary (Essential) Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website. They allow you to use essential features, such as:

• Caching the items in your shopping cart drawer.
• Remembering your logged-in session for magic video lessons.
• Securing checkout transactions.

5. Performance & Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information that is used in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used, how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you. They help us count page visits and identify traffic sources.

6. Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of video playback speed or locale).

7. Targeting & Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

8. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the website and deliver advertisements. These cookies may be set by services such as YouTube (for embedding our tutorial trailers), secure payment processors, or search engines.

9. Web Beacons and Tracking Pixels

Our website and emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email, and for other related website statistics.

10. Session vs. Persistent Cookies

Our website uses two types of cookies:

• Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser.
• Persistent Cookies: These remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (depending on the lifetime of the specific cookie). They help us recognize you on return visits.

11. How to Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. 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.

12. Disabling Cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website, and features like the shopping cart may not store items between page loads.

13. Consent Management

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner. By clicking "Accept All" or continuing to browse our site, you consent to our use of non-essential cookies. You can modify your preferences at any time through our cookie settings panel.

14. Third-Party Analytics Tools

We may use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to monitor and analyze the use of our website. These services use cookies to collect information about browser sessions, which is transmitted to and stored by the service providers on their servers.

15. Local Storage (HTML5)

We may use HTML5 Local Storage to cache lightweight data locally on your device, such as filtering preferences on the Shop and Course pages. Local storage differs from cookies as it does not send data back to the server on every HTTP request and has a higher storage limit.

16. Updates to this Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies.

17. Contact Information

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us:

• Email: info@north-carolina-travel-guide.com
• Phone: +61 2 9255 1234
• Address: CardCraft Academy Ltd, Level 14, 275 George Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia