Cookie Policy for Shop Sofly Vendors
Effective date: July 1, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Shop Sofly Vendors ("Shop Sofly Vendors," "we," "us," and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://shopsoflyvendors.com/. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
1. What are Cookies?
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.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Shop Sofly Vendors) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
In addition to cookies, we may also use other similar technologies like web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage (such as HTML5 local storage) to collect information about your browsing activities and preferences. These technologies often work in conjunction with cookies.
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 "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:
Account Login & Management: To allow customers and vendors to log in to their accounts and maintain their authenticated sessions across the platform.
Customer & Vendor Accounts: To remember account preferences, dashboards, and settings for both customers and vendors.
Shopping Cart & Checkout: To enable shopping cart functionality, manage items in your cart, and facilitate the checkout and payment flow.
Payment Processing: To securely handle payment transactions and communicate with payment processors.
Security & Fraud Prevention: To protect our platform, users, and transactions from fraudulent activities and unauthorized access.
Language & Currency Preferences: To remember your preferred language and currency settings for a localized experience.
Personalization: To display recently viewed products, offer product recommendations, and tailor content based on your browsing history.
Analytics & Performance Tracking: To understand how users interact with our website, monitor performance, identify popular pages, and improve our services.
Marketing & Advertising: To deliver relevant advertisements to you on our platform and other websites, measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, and perform retargeting. This includes the use of advertising pixels (e.g., social media pixels).
Affiliate & Referral Tracking: To track referrals from our affiliate partners and properly attribute sales.
Third-Party Services Integration: To integrate and allow functionality from third-party services such as payment processors, analytics providers, advertising partners, shipping tools, customer support tools, and fraud prevention providers.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Here's a breakdown of the types of cookies typically used on Shop Sofly Vendors:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas, logging into your account, and maintaining your shopping cart. Without these cookies, services like secure login, shopping cart functionality, and checkout processes cannot be provided.
Examples: Session cookies for login, security cookies to prevent fraud, cookies for maintaining cart contents during a session.
Preference (Functionality) Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
Examples: Cookies remembering your selected currency, language preference, recently viewed products.
Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, for instance, which pages you visit most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
Examples: Google Analytics cookies, internal performance tracking cookies to monitor page load times.
Marketing and 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 campaign. 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.
Examples: Advertising pixels (e.g., Facebook Pixel, Google Ads), cookies for retargeting campaigns, affiliate tracking cookies.
4. Third-Party Cookies
When you use Shop Sofly Vendors, you may encounter third-party cookies or similar technologies. These are set by external services that provide functionality to our marketplace, such as:
Payment Processors: Services like Stripe, PayPal, or others that handle your payment information securely.
Analytics Providers: Services like Google Analytics that help us understand website traffic and user behavior.
Advertising Partners: Networks that manage and deliver advertisements across the internet.
Shipping Tools: Services that integrate with our platform to manage shipping options and tracking.
Support Tools: Customer service and chat support platforms.
Fraud Prevention Providers: Services that help us detect and prevent fraudulent transactions.
These third parties 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 use technology to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements.
5. E-commerce Marketplace Cookies
As a multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace, Shop Sofly Vendors uses cookies to manage interactions between buyers, sellers (vendors), and the platform itself. These include:
Vendor-Specific Session Cookies: While you interact with a specific vendor's store within our marketplace, cookies may help manage that specific vendor's offerings or promotions during your session.
Shared Marketplace Functionality: Cookies ensure smooth navigation and consistent experiences across all vendors and the main marketplace functions (e.g., global search, user dashboard across all vendors).
6. Your Cookie Choices
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.
Cookie Consent Banner: Upon your first visit to Shop Sofly Vendors, you will see a cookie consent banner that provides options to accept all cookies, customize your preferences, or reject non-essential cookies. You can revisit your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link typically found in the footer of our website.
Browser Controls: Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. 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. The exact methods for doing this vary from browser to browser:
Opt-out of Targeted Advertising: Many advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
7. Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control Signals
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) or "Global Privacy Control" (GPC) feature that signals to websites that you do not want your online activities tracked. As there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals. However, Shop Sofly Vendors aims to respect GPC signals where technically feasible and legally required, interpreting them as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information where applicable under relevant privacy laws.
8. Cookie Duration
The cookies we use have different durations:
Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you close your web browser. They are essential for things like account login and the shopping cart.
Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a longer period, even after you close your browser. Their duration can vary from a few days to several years, depending on their purpose (e.g., remembering your language preference, or for analytics and advertising purposes).
9. Updates to Our Cookie 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 revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last revised.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Business Name: Shop Sofly Vendors Website: https://shopsoflyvendors.com/ Privacy Email: [email protected] Support Email: [email protected]