Cookie Policy

About Cookies

Cookies are small data files that a website may store on your browser or device. They can help a website operate, remember your preferences, maintain a shopping cart, protect transactions and understand how visitors interact with the website.

Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, software development kits, local storage and other device identifiers. In this policy, the word “cookies” also includes these similar technologies where appropriate.

How We May Use Cookies

South Central Hardware may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Operate essential website, shopping-cart and checkout functions
• Remember customer choices and website preferences
• Maintain website security and detect suspicious activity
• Understand whether website pages and features are working correctly
• Measure website traffic and customer interactions where analytics services are enabled
• Support marketing or advertising features where those services are enabled and legally permitted
• Remember consent and privacy choices where a consent-management tool is available

Categories of Cookies

Essential Website Technologies

Some cookies or similar technologies may be necessary for the online store to operate properly.

These technologies may support functions such as:

• Remembering products placed in a shopping cart
• Maintaining checkout sessions
• Processing customer privacy choices
• Protecting transactions from fraud or misuse
• Maintaining website stability and security
• Remembering account sessions where customer accounts are available

Blocking essential technologies may prevent parts of the website, cart or checkout from functioning correctly.

Analytics Technologies

If analytics services are enabled, analytics cookies may collect information about how visitors use the online store.

This information may include:

• Pages viewed
• Approximate visit time and duration
• Website or page that referred the visitor
• Browser and device type
• General geographic information derived from an IP address
• Interactions with products, collections, cart features or website links
• Website performance and error information

Analytics information may be used to understand website performance, identify technical problems and improve the shopping experience.

South Central Hardware will not name a particular analytics provider in this policy unless that provider is confirmed as active on the live website.

Advertising and Marketing Technologies

If advertising or marketing services are enabled, cookies or similar technologies may be used to:

• Measure whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit or purchase
• Understand interactions with marketing campaigns
• Prevent the same advertisement from being shown too frequently
• Build or use audience information for advertising purposes
• Provide advertising that may be based on browsing activity or interests

Advertising technologies must not be assumed to be active merely because they are described in this policy. Their actual use depends on the applications, pixels, advertising accounts and privacy settings enabled on the live website.

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by the website you are visiting or by services operating as part of that website.

Third-party cookies may be placed by an external service that supports functions such as payments, analytics, advertising, fraud prevention, embedded content or website performance.

Third-party services may process information according to their own privacy policies, cookie policies and contractual terms.

Session and Persistent Cookies

Cookies may remain on a device for different periods:

• Session cookies generally remain active only while the browser session is open.
• Persistent cookies may remain until their expiration date, until they are replaced or until the customer removes them using browser or device controls.

The exact duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the service that provides it.

Your Cookie Choices

Where a cookie-consent banner or privacy-preference tool is available, you may be able to accept, reject or adjust certain non-essential cookie categories.

Essential cookies may remain active where they are reasonably necessary to operate the online store, maintain security, remember privacy choices or complete a customer-requested transaction.

You may also be able to manage cookies through your browser or device settings. Browser controls commonly allow you to:

• Review stored cookies
• Delete existing cookies
• Block new cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Receive a warning before a cookie is stored

Browser settings vary by provider and device. Blocking or deleting cookies may affect website preferences, cart contents, login sessions, checkout or other website functions.

Privacy Opt-Out Rights

Depending on where you live and the technologies used on the website, applicable privacy law may provide the right to opt out of certain activities classified as:

• The sale of personal information
• The sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising
• Targeted advertising
• Certain profiling activities

Selling personal information for money is different from disclosing information to service providers that help operate the website. However, some privacy laws use “sale” or “sharing” more broadly and may include certain advertising-related disclosures.

Where required, available opt-out methods may be provided through the website’s privacy controls or by contacting South Central Hardware.

Cookie Consent and Privacy Settings

The privacy controls displayed on the live website depend on the ecommerce platform, customer-privacy settings and applications currently enabled.

South Central Hardware should review its live privacy configuration to confirm:

• Whether a cookie-consent banner is active
• The regions in which consent is requested
• Whether visitors can reject non-essential cookies
• Whether analytics and advertising services respect consent choices
• Whether a data-sharing opt-out page is available
• Whether browser-based privacy signals are recognized

Updates to Cookie Technologies

The cookies and technologies used by the website may change when website features, applications, analytics services, advertising services or payment tools are added, removed or updated.

This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes in our practices or legal obligations. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Privacy Policy

For more information about how South Central Hardware may collect, use, disclose, retain and protect personal information, review our Privacy Policy.

Contact South Central Hardware

For questions about this Cookie Policy or available privacy choices, contact South Central Hardware using the confirmed details below.