Cookie Policy
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This Cookie Policy explains how Custom Trip Apparel uses cookies and similar technologies on our website:
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember your preferences, improve your browsing experience, support checkout functionality, and understand how visitors use the site.
Cookies may be set by our website directly, known as first-party cookies, or by third-party services we use, known as third-party cookies.
Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, session storage, and tracking links.
How We Use Cookies
Custom Trip Apparel may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the website working properly
- Allow products to be added to your cart
- Support checkout and order processing
- Remember cookie preferences
- Support customer and affiliate logins
- Help protect the site from spam, fraud, and abuse
- Support affiliate referral tracking
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Improve website performance and customer experience
- Support embedded content, forms, payment services, and third-party tools
We do not use cookies to sell your personal information.
Types of Cookies We Use
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are needed for the website to work correctly. They may be used for security, cart functionality, checkout, customer login, affiliate login, form submission, cookie consent settings, and basic site operation.
These cookies cannot usually be switched off through our cookie banner because they are required for the website and shop to function.
Examples may include cookies used for:
- WooCommerce cart and checkout
- Customer account login
- Affiliate account login
- Cookie consent settings
- Security and spam prevention
- Form submission functionality
2. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help the website remember choices you make, such as form details, login preferences, display preferences, or saved settings.
These cookies may improve your experience but are not always essential.
3. Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages are visited, how people move around the site, and whether pages are working properly.
We may use analytics tools to improve our products, website structure, page content, and customer experience.
If enabled, analytics cookies are only used where allowed by your cookie settings and applicable law.
4. Affiliate and Referral Cookies
Custom Trip Apparel operates a travel agent partner and affiliate programme.
Affiliate cookies may be used to track when a visitor arrives through an approved referral link or partner code. These cookies help connect qualifying customer orders with the correct affiliate partner.
Referral tracking may last for up to 30 days, depending on the affiliate programme settings.
Affiliate cookies help us:
- Track approved referral links
- Apply or connect partner discount codes
- Attribute qualifying completed orders
- Calculate affiliate commission
- Prevent misuse or fraudulent tracking
5. Marketing Cookies
We may use marketing cookies in the future to help measure promotions, show relevant offers, or understand how marketing campaigns perform.
Marketing cookies are not essential and will only be used where allowed by your cookie preferences and applicable law.
6. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set by third-party services used on our website. These may include services for payments, forms, spam prevention, security, analytics, affiliate tracking, live chat, embedded content, or fulfilment-related tools.
Third-party services may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
Examples of third-party services that may be used on this website include:
- WooCommerce
- WordPress
- Payment processors such as PayPal or Stripe
- Print-on-demand and fulfilment providers
- Forminator forms
- Affiliate tracking tools
- Cookie consent tools
- Security or spam prevention tools
- Analytics tools, if enabled
- Live chat or support tools, if enabled
WooCommerce Cookies
Because Custom Trip Apparel uses WooCommerce, cookies may be used to support cart and checkout functions.
These cookies may help the site:
- Remember items in your cart
- Process checkout
- Keep track of customer sessions
- Support customer account login
- Connect order details with checkout activity
Without these cookies, the shop may not work correctly.
Form Cookies
If you submit a contact form, quote request form, affiliate application, or upload files through the website, cookies or similar technologies may be used to support the form, prevent spam, and ensure the submission works correctly.
Login Cookies
If you log in to an account on this website, cookies may be used to remember your login session and display preferences.
Login cookies may last for a limited time depending on whether you choose to stay logged in.
Comment Cookies
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies may last for one year.
Visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Embedded Content
Pages on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, maps, social media posts, or other third-party content.
Embedded content from another website behaves as if you visited that website directly. These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content.
How Long Cookies Last
Cookies may be session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
Some examples:
- Cart and checkout cookies may last only for the shopping session or a short period
- Login cookies may last for several days or longer if “remember me” is selected
- Cookie consent preferences may be stored so you do not have to choose again every time
- Affiliate referral cookies may last up to 30 days
- Comment convenience cookies may last up to one year
Actual cookie durations may vary depending on the tools and plugins active on the website.
Managing Cookies
You can manage your cookie preferences through the cookie banner or cookie settings tool on this website, where available.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Set cookie preferences for specific websites
Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works. For example, if you block strictly necessary cookies, the shopping cart, checkout, login, affiliate dashboard, or quote forms may not work correctly.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, plugins, tools, cookies, affiliate programme, checkout system, or legal requirements.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact: