Introduction
Vurkhen™ uses cookies and similar technologies to operate vurkhen.com, maintain shopping and account functionality, remember certain choices, protect transactions, measure Website performance, and, where enabled and permitted, support analytics and marketing.
This Cookie Policy explains what those technologies are, why they may be used, and how Users can manage them.
This Policy should be read together with the Vurkhen Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored or accessed through a browser or device.
Cookies and similar technologies may help Websites:
- maintain sessions;
- remember carts;
- authenticate Users;
- save preferences;
- protect security;
- remember consent choices;
- measure performance;
- analyze usage;
- measure advertising.
Similar technologies may include:
- local storage;
- pixels;
- tags;
- embedded scripts;
- similar browser or device identifiers.
Consent Model
Vurkhen distinguishes between:
Strictly Necessary Technologies
and
Optional Technologies.
Where applicable law requires consent, optional technologies will not be activated until the User provides a valid choice.
Vurkhen does not treat:
- scrolling;
- continuing to browse;
- inactivity;
- closing the banner;
- a pre-selected optional checkbox
as affirmative consent where applicable law requires an affirmative action.
This approach is consistent with EU consent principles and guidance that passive behavior such as scrolling is not sufficient affirmative consent.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies may be used to provide functionality expressly requested by the User or essential to the security and operation of the Website.
These may include technologies required for:
- WooCommerce cart;
- checkout;
- authentication;
- account session;
- order processing;
- security;
- fraud prevention;
- load balancing;
- cookie-preference storage.
Where applicable law permits, these technologies may operate without optional consent.
Blocking them manually through a browser may cause parts of Vurkhen to stop functioning.
Functional Cookies
Functional technologies may remember optional preferences such as:
- language;
- region;
- interface choices;
- display preferences;
- selected Website features.
Where consent is legally required, they will be subject to the appropriate preference choice.
Analytics Cookies
If Vurkhen enables analytics, those technologies may help understand:
- pages visited;
- Website performance;
- session activity;
- device categories;
- browser characteristics;
- approximate region;
- traffic sources;
- interaction patterns.
Analytics will not be described as fully anonymous unless the actual implementation supports that statement.
Where legally required, analytics technologies will remain disabled until appropriate consent is obtained.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
If Vurkhen enables advertising, retargeting, conversion measurement, social-media pixels, or similar technologies, they may be used to:
- measure campaigns;
- attribute conversions;
- understand advertising effectiveness;
- create audiences;
- personalize advertising where legally permitted.
Where prior consent is required, these technologies will remain disabled until consent is given.
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set through or associated with the vurkhen.com domain.
They may support features such as:
- shopping cart;
- security;
- session operation;
- preference management.
Third-Party Technologies
Third-party Website integrations may place or access technologies when their functionality is loaded.
Depending upon the actual Website configuration, such providers may include:
- analytics platforms;
- payment providers;
- embedded video services;
- authentication providers;
- advertising platforms;
- social networks.
A provider should only be identified as a cookie provider if it actually places or accesses relevant technologies through vurkhen.com.
For example, the fact that Printful manufactures an order does not by itself mean Printful necessarily places browser cookies on vurkhen.com.
Payment Providers
Where Stripe, PayPal, or another payment service is integrated into the Website, the relevant provider may use security, fraud-prevention, session, or payment technologies when its interface or services are loaded.
The applicable provider’s independent privacy and cookie terms may apply to processing under its control.
Embedded Media
Embedded media from services such as YouTube or social networks may cause the external provider to receive technical information or place technologies.
Where legally required, optional embedded components capable of tracking Users should be blocked until the corresponding consent is provided.
Cookie Duration
ookies may be:
Session Cookies — generally expire with the browser session.
Persistent Cookies — remain until a defined expiry time or deletion.
The actual duration depends upon the technology.
Vurkhen’s consent interface should, where reasonably practicable, identify:
- cookie/provider;
- category;
- purpose;
- duration.
Cookie Banner
Vurkhen’s cookie consent banner should offer clear options equivalent to:
ACCEPT ALL
REJECT NON-ESSENTIAL
MANAGE PREFERENCES
Rejecting optional analytics or marketing technologies should not prevent ordinary access to the Website where those technologies are not genuinely required for the service requested.
Managing Preferences
Users may reopen the Cookie Preferences interface to modify optional choices.
Where consent is the legal basis, withdrawal will apply to future processing as required by law.
Browser Controls
Users may also delete or restrict cookies through browser settings.
Blocking every cookie may affect:
- login;
- cart persistence;
- checkout;
- account functionality;
- saved preferences.
Browser controls operate separately from Vurkhen’s consent-management interface.
Global Privacy Control and Similar Signals
Where applicable law requires Vurkhen to honor a qualifying browser-based opt-out preference signal, Vurkhen will process the signal as legally required.
California’s current CCPA regulations require businesses subject to those provisions to honor qualifying opt-out preference signals for sale/sharing.
International Users
Privacy and cookie requirements vary by jurisdiction.
Vurkhen may voluntarily implement privacy-protective defaults more broadly than legally required to simplify operation.
Where mandatory local law provides stronger rights, the mandatory law prevails.
Updates
Vurkhen may revise this Cookie Policy when:
- Website technology changes;
- providers change;
- analytics tools change;
- advertising tools change;
- applicable law changes;
- consent systems change.
Where legally necessary, Users may be asked to make a new consent choice.
Contact
Vurkhen™
Operator: Kevin E.C.G.
Creative pseudonym: Räfthkan™
Legal Notice Address: México (Global Digital Operations)
Email: contact@vurkhen.com
Website: vurkhen.com