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The Gilded Spoon - Cookies Policy

At The Gilded Spoon, located in the heart of Seattle's vibrant culinary scene, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a transparent experience when you visit our website. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of our website, how we use this information, and how you can control your cookie preferences. We encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand our practices.

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 to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted once you close your browser.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes, including:

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate our site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
  • Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for example, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
  • Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

Specific Cookies We Use

Cookies Used by The Gilded Spoon
Cookie Name Purpose Duration Type
_ga Used to distinguish users for Google Analytics. 2 years Performance
_gid Used to distinguish users for Google Analytics. 24 hours Performance
_gat Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. 1 minute Performance
PHPSESSID This cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. Session Essential
cookieConsent Used to remember if the user has accepted the cookie policy. 1 year Functionality

Third-Party Cookies

We also use third-party cookies on our website, such as Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. These cookies are subject to the respective third parties' cookie policies, which we encourage you to review. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.

How to Control Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the settings in your web browser. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to block all or certain types of cookies.

Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly. For example, you may not be able to access secure areas or use certain features.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Changes to this Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any changes to this policy on our website and, where appropriate, notify you by other means. Please check this policy periodically for updates.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:

The Gilded Spoon
Attn: Data Protection Officer
123 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (206) 555-1212

This Cookies Policy was last updated on October 26, 2024.

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123 Elliott Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119 | Phone: (206) 555-1212 | Email: [email protected]