1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files or identifiers that websites may store on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit them. Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device and can be used to support essential website functions, remember preferences, maintain sessions, improve security, and understand how visitors interact with a website. Some cookies remain only for the duration of your browsing session, while others may remain on your device for a longer period.

2. How Retro Research Company Uses Cookies

Retro Research Company uses cookies and similar technologies to support the operation, security, functionality, and performance of our website. We may use cookies to:

• Keep the website functioning correctly.
• Maintain shopping cart contents.
• Support checkout functionality.
• Keep customers signed into their accounts.
• Remember certain website preferences.
• Maintain website and account security.
• Help prevent fraud, spam, and automated abuse.
• Understand how visitors navigate and use the website.
• Measure website traffic and performance.
• Identify technical or usability issues.
• Remember cookie consent preferences.

3. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required for important website functions and cannot reasonably be disabled through our website. These may be used for purposes including:

• Shopping cart functionality.
• Checkout processes.
• Customer account sessions.
• User authentication.
• Website security.
• Fraud prevention.
• Cookie consent preferences.

Blocking essential cookies through your browser may prevent parts of the website from functioning correctly.

4. WooCommerce Cookies

Retro Research Company uses WooCommerce to operate its online store. WooCommerce may use cookies or browser storage to support ecommerce functionality including:

• Remembering products placed in your shopping cart.
• Recognizing changes to your cart.
• Maintaining checkout sessions.
• Supporting logged-in customer accounts.
• Maintaining session information while you navigate the store.

These cookies are generally necessary to provide the ecommerce functionality requested by the visitor.

5. Analytics Cookies

Retro Research Company uses Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. Analytics cookies may allow us to understand information such as:

• How many people visit the website.
• Which pages are visited.
• How visitors navigate between pages.
• How long visitors spend on the website.
• The general source of website traffic.
• Approximate geographic information.
• Browser and device information.
• Website interactions and performance.

This information helps us improve website functionality, navigation, content, and performance. Where required or configured, analytics cookies will only be activated in accordance with the cookie preferences selected through our consent system.

6. Google Analytics

Our website may use Google Analytics, including implementation through Google Site Kit. Google Analytics may use first-party cookies to distinguish visitors and maintain information about website sessions. Cookies used by a standard Google Analytics 4 implementation may include: _ga Used to distinguish individual website users. *ga* Used to maintain session information for a particular Google Analytics property. The exact cookies, duration, and behavior may vary depending on our configuration and future updates made by Google. Google Analytics may also process browser, device, website activity, session, and approximate location information. Retro Research Company does not intentionally send names, email addresses, banking information, or other directly identifying customer information to Google Analytics.

7. Security and reCAPTCHA

Retro Research Company may use Google reCAPTCHA and other website security technologies to help protect forms, accounts, and website functionality from spam, fraud, automated submissions, and malicious activity. These technologies may process technical information relating to your browser, device, IP address, website interactions, and security signals. Security technologies may operate where reasonably necessary to protect the website and its users.

8. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may be used to remember choices or preferences that improve your experience on the website. These may include preferences relating to:

• Account sessions.
• Website settings.
• Cookie consent choices.
• Other functionality you have previously selected.

Disabling functional cookies may affect certain website features.

9. Marketing Cookies

Retro Research Company does not currently rely on advertising cookies as a core part of the website functionality described in this policy. If advertising, remarketing, targeted advertising, or additional marketing tracking technologies are introduced in the future, our cookie consent controls and this Cookie Policy may be updated accordingly. Marketing cookies will be handled in accordance with applicable consent and privacy requirements where required.

10. Email Marketing and Brevo

Retro Research Company uses Brevo for certain email marketing and communication services. Brevo may use tracking technologies within marketing emails, such as tracking pixels or similar identifiers, to provide information relating to email delivery and engagement. This may include information such as whether an email has been delivered, opened, or interacted with. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe option included within those communications.

11. Cookie Consent

Our website provides cookie consent controls that allow visitors to manage certain optional cookies and tracking technologies. Depending on our configuration, you may be given options to accept or reject different categories of cookies. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function may operate regardless of optional cookie preferences. Where analytics or other optional storage is declined, our website is configured, where technically supported, to respect that preference.

12. Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You may be able to change your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie settings or consent controls available on our website. Changing your preferences will generally affect future cookie use. Cookies already stored on your device may need to be removed through your browser settings if you wish to delete them completely.

13. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View stored cookies.
• Delete individual cookies.
• Delete all cookies.
• Block cookies from particular websites.
• Block third-party cookies.
• Block all cookies.
• Configure cookies to be deleted when the browser closes.

Please be aware that blocking all cookies may cause parts of the Retro Research Company website to stop functioning correctly, particularly account, cart, and checkout features.

14. Third-Party Technologies

Some cookies and similar technologies used on our website may be provided by third-party service providers. These may include providers involved in:

• Website analytics.
• Security and spam prevention.
• Email communications.
• Website infrastructure.
• Ecommerce functionality.

Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and service terms.

15. Similar Technologies

In addition to conventional cookies, our website or service providers may use similar technologies including:

• Local browser storage.
• Session storage.
• Tracking pixels.
• Tags.
• Scripts.
• Device or browser identifiers.

For the purposes of this Cookie Policy, references to cookies may also include these similar technologies where appropriate.

16. Data Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the cookie or technology involved, information collected may include:

• IP address.
• Browser type.
• Device type.
• Operating system.
• Approximate geographic location.
• Pages visited.
• Session information.
• Website interactions.
• Referral information.
• Cookie identifiers.
• Security signals.

Further information about how Retro Research Company handles personal information is available in our Privacy Policy.

17. Cookie Duration

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them. The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose, configuration, and the service provider responsible for them. For example, Google states that the standard GA4 `_ga` and `_ga_<container-id>` cookies have a default expiration period of up to two years, although settings can be changed.

18. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, services, cookie configuration, analytics tools, security technologies, or legal obligations change. The current version of this Cookie Policy will be made available on our website.

19. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies, tracking technologies, or privacy practices, contact: Retro Research Company Austin, Texas United States Email: info@retroresearchcompany.com Website: retroresearchcompany.com