Cookies Policy

Last Updated: January 2025

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. Cookies help us understand how you use our website, remember your preferences, and improve your overall experience when ordering fresh produce from our greenhouse.

2. How We Use Cookies

At Buxoce, we use cookies for various purposes to ensure you have the best possible experience when browsing our selection of fresh vegetables and fruits. Our cookies help us:

• Remember your preferences: Including your delivery location, preferred payment methods, and language settings
• Improve website functionality: Ensuring our shopping cart works properly and your selections are saved
• Analyze website traffic: Understanding which products are most popular and how customers navigate our site
• Personalize your experience: Showing you relevant products based on your browsing history
• Enhance security: Protecting your account and preventing fraudulent activity
• Enable social media features: Allowing you to share our fresh produce offerings with friends and family

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, you would not be able to place orders or use our shopping cart. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

3.2 Performance Cookies

Performance cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us identify which sections of our site are most popular, which products customers view most frequently, and where improvements can be made to enhance your shopping experience.

3.3 Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language preference, or delivery address) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, such as watching a video about our greenhouse operations or leaving a product review.

3.4 Targeting/Advertising Cookies

We use these cookies to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. These cookies remember that you have visited our website and share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of our website, deliver advertisements on and through our website, and provide analytics services. These third parties include:

• Google Analytics: For website traffic analysis and user behavior tracking
• Social Media Platforms: Including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for social sharing features
• Payment Processors: To securely process your transactions
• Advertising Networks: To display relevant advertisements about our fresh produce

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. Here's how you can manage cookies:

• Browser Settings: You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent
• Cookie Consent Tool: Use our cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit our website
• Opt-Out Links: Many advertising networks provide opt-out mechanisms on their websites
• Privacy Settings: Adjust your privacy settings on social media platforms

Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly, and you may not be able to complete purchases or access certain areas of the site.

6. Cookie Duration

Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you manually delete them. The duration of cookies we use varies depending on their purpose, ranging from session-only to up to two years.

7. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new policy on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.

8. Your Rights and Choices

Under data protection laws, you have rights regarding your personal data, including information collected through cookies. You have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to object to certain types of processing and to data portability. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.