Cookie Policy

1. What this policy covers

This page explains every cookie and browser-storage item reddotseo.com uses, why, and how you control them. We keep this deliberately short because we use very little: two categories only, and nothing beyond what's listed below.

2. Cookies and local storage we use

Name / item	Purpose	Duration	Type
Cart storage (rds.cart.v1)	Remembers what's in your cart between visits, on this device	Until you clear it or complete checkout	Strictly necessary — local storage
Language preference	Remembers whether you're browsing in English or French	Until you change it or clear your browser data	Strictly necessary — local storage
Cookie-choice preference	Remembers whether you accepted or declined the Analytics category, so we don't ask again every visit	12 months	Strictly necessary — local storage
Google Analytics 4 (_ga, _ga_*)	Measures which pages are used, in aggregate — no analytics loads until you accept this category	Up to 14 months	Analytics — cookie, loaded only after consent

3. Strictly necessary

These run the site itself — your cart, your language choice, and remembering your cookie preference so we don't re-ask on every page. They don't track you across other sites and can't be switched off, because the site can't function without them (a shopping cart, and a consent-recording mechanism, are exempt from consent under the ePrivacy rules).

4. Analytics — Google Analytics 4

If you accept the "Analytics" category, we load Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited, to see in aggregate which pages get used and how people move through the site — never to identify you individually. It's off by default, no pre-ticked box, and nothing loads until you actively accept it. Data is kept for up to 14 months, GA4's standard retention setting. See our Privacy Policy (§4–§5) for who else this data touches and where.

5. Giving, changing, or withdrawing your consent

On your first visit, a banner offers three equal choices: Accept all, Reject non-essential, or Manage preferences. Your choice is remembered for 12 months, and non-essential scripts (Google Analytics) load only once you've accepted that category.

You can change your mind at any time — use the button below, or the same "Cookie preferences" button in the footer of every page, to reopen the preferences dialog and switch Analytics on or off.

Manage my cookie preferences

6. Managing cookies in your browser

Beyond the controls above, your browser lets you block or delete cookies at the browser level — in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge this is usually under Settings → Privacy. Blocking all cookies there may affect the cart and language-preference features described in §2, since those rely on local storage to work.

7. Refusing analytics doesn't degrade the site

Every page, the cart, checkout, and every service work exactly the same whether or not you accept the Analytics category. Refusing it only means we don't see your visit in aggregate usage data — nothing on the site is hidden, slowed, or restricted either way.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy if the cookies or tools we use change. The "Effective" date at the top always shows the version currently in force.