Cookie Policy

Last updated: August 19, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how TropiCrochet (“TropiCrochet,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use tropicrochet.com (the “Website”).

TropiCrochet offers crochet patterns, handmade crochet products, design-related content, and related resources through the Website.

This Cookie Policy is based on the cookies and similar technologies identified on the Website’s August 19, 2026 Cookie Script scan. Because the Website may change as WordPress, WooCommerce, plugins, consent-management tools, analytics services, and other integrations are updated, this policy will be reviewed and updated when material changes are made.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. They allow a website to remember information about your visit, support features such as shopping carts and sessions, remember certain preferences, and help website operators understand how their websites are used.

The Website may also use similar technologies, including session storage, scripts, pixels, tags, or other browser-based technologies. Where appropriate, this Cookie Policy refers to these technologies collectively as “cookies.”

2. Cookies currently used by TropiCrochet

The August 19, 2026 Cookie Script scan examined 10 pages of the Website and identified 16 cookies, all of which were classified as first-party cookies. The scan also identified one session-storage item.

The cookies currently identified fall into the following functional categories.

A. Strictly necessary cookies

TropiCrochet uses cookies that support essential Website and WooCommerce functionality.

These currently include:

cookieyes-consent

• Provider: CookieYes
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: approximately 1 year
• Purpose: stores the visitor’s cookie-consent choice.

This cookie allows the Website to remember the visitor’s consent preferences.

woocommerce_items_in_cart

• Provider: WooCommerce
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: session
• Purpose: helps WooCommerce determine whether products have been added to or removed from the shopping cart.

woocommerce_cart_hash

• Provider: WooCommerce
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: session
• Purpose: helps WooCommerce determine the current state of the shopping cart.

wp_woocommerce_session_*

• Provider: WooCommerce
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: approximately 2 days
• Purpose: maintains the visitor’s WooCommerce session and supports shopping-cart functionality.

woocommerce_recently_viewed

• Provider: WooCommerce
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: session
• Purpose: supports the Website’s recently viewed products functionality.

wpEmojiSettingsSupports

The Website also uses wpEmojiSettingsSupports in session storage.

Cookie Script currently classifies this storage item as Strictly Necessary. It is associated with WordPress functionality relating to emoji support.

Because this is session storage rather than a conventional cookie, it may not appear in cookie-management controls in the same manner as browser cookies.

B. WooCommerce cookies requiring functional classification

The August 19, 2026 scan also identified:

• wc_cart_created
• wc_cart_hash_*

Both are session cookies.

Cookie Script currently lists these cookies as Unclassified.

TropiCrochet does not treat the scanner’s “Unclassified” label as sufficient evidence that these cookies are optional tracking cookies.

Their actual WooCommerce functionality will be evaluated based on the Website’s implementation. If they are required to operate the shopping cart, checkout, or another ecommerce function requested by the visitor, they will be treated as necessary for that function.

3. Analytics and performance cookies

The current Website contains Google Analytics cookies.

_ga

• Provider: Google Analytics
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: approximately 1 year and 1 month
• Purpose: identifies and distinguishes visitors for Google Analytics measurement.

_ga_F56MP7LPLP

• Provider: Google Analytics
• Domain: tropicrochet.com
• Duration: approximately 1 year and 1 month
• Purpose: maintains Google Analytics session and measurement state for the configured Google Analytics property.

The Website uses these technologies to obtain information about Website usage and performance, such as visits, navigation, page interactions, and other measurement information.

Google Analytics is not necessary for the basic operation of the TropiCrochet shop.

Where applicable law requires prior consent for analytics technologies, Google Analytics should not be activated until the required consent has been provided.

The exact Google Analytics configuration, including how the service is installed and whether any additional Google technologies are active, will be based on the actual Website configuration rather than assumed from the presence of these cookies.

4. Sourcebuster attribution and performance cookies

The Website currently contains the following Sourcebuster cookies:

• sbjs_migrations
• sbjs_first_add
• sbjs_current
• sbjs_first
• sbjs_udata
• sbjs_session
• sbjs_current_add

Cookie Script currently classifies these as Performance cookies.

These cookies are associated with Sourcebuster attribution functionality and may help the Website understand information about how visitors arrive at and interact with the Website, including attribution and session-related information.

The precise Sourcebuster provider, configuration, data collected, retention behavior, and relationship to other analytics or ecommerce systems should be determined from the actual WordPress/WooCommerce configuration.

Where applicable law requires consent for this type of measurement or attribution technology, it should be prevented from operating until the required consent has been obtained.

5. Third-party cookies

The August 19, 2026 Cookie Script scan detected:

0 third-party cookies.

The current scan therefore does not provide evidence that the Website is placing Meta/Facebook cookies, third-party advertising cookies, or other third-party browser cookies.

TropiCrochet does not represent that it uses Meta Pixel, Meta/Facebook advertising cookies, Google Tag Manager, or other third-party tracking technologies unless those technologies are actually installed and active on the Website.

If third-party tracking or advertising technologies are added in the future, this Cookie Policy will be reviewed and updated as appropriate.

6. Email and newsletter communications

TropiCrochet offers downloadable resources and email communications through the Website.

When you voluntarily provide your email address to receive a TropiCrochet resource or subscribe to communications, your email address may be used to deliver the requested resource and, where you have been informed and permitted to do so, send subsequent TropiCrochet communications such as new design announcements, stories, and pattern releases.

Email marketing systems may use their own tracking technologies, such as delivery, open, or click tracking. These technologies are separate from the Website cookies identified in the August 19, 2026 Cookie Script scan.

The specific email service and any email tracking technologies used by TropiCrochet should be identified in the Privacy Policy and other applicable disclosures based on the actual email marketing service connected to the Website.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the email.

7. Cookie consent and your choices

TropiCrochet currently uses CookieYes for cookie consent management.

The cookieyes-consent cookie remembers your consent choice.

Where applicable law requires consent before non-essential cookies are used, TropiCrochet will request consent before activating applicable analytics, performance, advertising, or other non-essential technologies.

Depending on the consent-management configuration, you may be able to:

• accept available cookies;
• reject non-essential cookies; or
• select which categories of non-essential cookies you permit.

Cookies that are genuinely necessary to provide requested Website functionality generally cannot be disabled through the consent mechanism.

You may change or withdraw your consent through the Website’s Cookie Settings mechanism when available.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

8. How to manage cookies

You can manage cookies in several ways.

Cookie Settings

Use the Website’s Cookie Settings mechanism to review or change your consent choices.

TropiCrochet intends to provide persistent access to Cookie Settings through the Website footer or another readily accessible location.

Browser settings

Most web browsers allow you to block, delete, or receive notifications about cookies.

Browser controls differ by browser and device, so consult the privacy or cookie settings provided by your browser for specific instructions.

Blocking or deleting necessary WooCommerce cookies may interfere with shopping-cart, checkout, or other Website functionality.

Email communications

You can unsubscribe from TropiCrochet marketing communications by using the unsubscribe link or other unsubscribe mechanism included in the applicable email.

9. Do Not Track and similar privacy signals

Some browsers and devices provide “Do Not Track” or similar privacy signals.

There is no single technical standard governing how every website must respond to these signals. Accordingly, the Website may not respond to every such signal in the same manner.

TropiCrochet will review applicable legal and technical requirements concerning recognized privacy signals as they develop.

10. International visitors

TropiCrochet is based in the United States, but the Website may be accessed by visitors in other countries.

Cookie and privacy requirements vary by jurisdiction.

Where applicable law requires prior consent for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, TropiCrochet will seek the required consent before activating those technologies.

Depending on applicable law and the Website’s consent-management configuration, visitors may receive different consent options or have additional privacy rights.

11. Cookies and personal information

Information collected through cookies or similar technologies may constitute personal information or may be capable of being associated with other information relating to an individual.

Depending on where you live and the law that applies to you, you may have rights concerning personal information collected through the Website.

These rights may include, where applicable:

• requesting access to personal information;
• requesting correction of inaccurate information;
• requesting deletion;
• requesting restriction of certain processing;
• objecting to certain processing;
• withdrawing consent;
• opting out of certain forms of targeted advertising or data sharing; and
• requesting a portable copy of certain information.

For additional information about how TropiCrochet collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information, please review the TropiCrochet Privacy Policy.

12. Changes to this Cookie Policy

TropiCrochet may update this Cookie Policy when:

• Website functionality changes;
• WordPress or WooCommerce configuration changes;
• plugins or integrations are added, removed, or updated;
• analytics or attribution services change;
• email or marketing services change;
• advertising technologies are introduced or removed; or
• applicable privacy requirements change.

When this policy is materially changed, the “Last updated” date will be revised.

The Cookie Policy should be reviewed against a current Cookie Script scan following material changes to the Website’s cookie or tracking configuration.

13. Contact TropiCrochet

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or TropiCrochet’s use of cookies and similar technologies, please contact TropiCrochet through the Contact page on the Website.

For information about TropiCrochet’s broader collection and use of personal information, please review the Privacy Policy.