Cookie Policy
Last updated: October 2026
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files or similar technologies stored on or accessed from your device when you visit a website. They may be used to provide essential functionality, maintain sessions, remember preferences, protect forms and accounts, process checkout operations, or understand how a website is used.
Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags and scripts. In this Cookie Policy, we may refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies” where appropriate.
How we use cookies
TIRO-ALP uses cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for the operation, security and functionality of our websites and digital services.
Where required by applicable law, optional technologies such as analytics are activated only after you have provided the relevant consent.
We currently use Google Analytics 4 on relevant parts of our website to understand traffic and website usage where analytics consent has been provided.
Categories of cookies and similar technologies
- Strictly necessary: required for essential website or service functionality, including security, authentication, session management, checkout, payment flow, fraud prevention and storing privacy choices where applicable. These technologies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary for the service requested by the user.
- Functional: may be used to remember choices or provide functionality requested by the user. Whether consent is required depends on the nature and purpose of the technology.
- Analytics: used to understand website traffic and interaction. Where consent is required, these technologies are activated only after consent has been provided.
Strictly necessary technologies
Depending on the part of the website or service you use, strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies may be used for purposes such as:
- maintaining website and account sessions;
- authentication and account security;
- remembering privacy and cookie preferences;
- protecting forms and preventing abuse or fraud;
- maintaining shopping cart and checkout functionality;
- processing orders and payments;
- providing functionality specifically requested by the user.
Because these technologies are necessary to provide requested functionality, disabling them through the browser may cause parts of the website, account, checkout or other services to stop working correctly.
Google Analytics 4
Where you provide analytics consent, we may use Google Analytics 4 (“GA4”) to understand how visitors use our website. GA4 may use cookies or similar identifiers to collect information about website interactions, such as pages viewed, approximate session information, device or browser characteristics and interaction events.
Google Analytics technologies may include cookies whose names begin with _ga, including service-specific variants. The exact cookies, identifiers and retention periods may vary depending on Google's configuration and subsequent service updates.
Optional Google Analytics technologies are used only where the applicable consent requirements have been satisfied.
WooCommerce, checkout and payments
Our website may use WooCommerce and related technologies to provide shopping cart, checkout, order and account functionality. Cookies or similar technologies that are strictly necessary to maintain a cart, authenticate a customer, secure a transaction or complete a requested checkout may be used without optional analytics consent where permitted by applicable law.
Online payments are processed through Stripe. When you use checkout or a payment method made available through Stripe, Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for payment processing, authentication, fraud prevention, security and other functionality required to complete the payment.
Stripe's processing of personal data is also subject to its applicable privacy information and legal obligations.
Third-party services
Some pages may use third-party services or embedded content, such as analytics, payment services, maps, videos or other external functionality. These providers may process information or use cookies and similar technologies according to the purpose of the service and their own privacy information.
Where a third-party technology is optional and requires consent, we aim to activate it only after the relevant consent has been provided. Technologies that are strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user may operate without optional consent where permitted by applicable law.
International data transfers
Some third-party providers may process information outside the European Economic Area. Where GDPR restrictions on international transfers apply, transfers are subject to an applicable lawful transfer mechanism, such as an adequacy decision, the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or another mechanism permitted by applicable data protection law.
Managing your cookie preferences
Where our website provides a cookie consent mechanism, you can use it to accept, reject or manage optional technologies. Refusing optional analytics cookies does not prevent you from using the essential functions of the website.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking all cookies or similar storage technologies may affect essential functionality such as login, shopping cart, checkout or saved preferences.
Where available, you can reopen the cookie preference interface using the button below:
Changing or withdrawing consent
Where processing is based on consent, you may change or withdraw that consent at any time through the available cookie preference mechanism. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our technologies, service providers, website functionality or legal requirements change. The current version and effective date will be published on this page.
Contact
For questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, contact: contact@tiro-alp.com