Cookie policy
Last updated: 2026-08-08
A cookie is a small file a site writes into your browser to remember something from one page to the next. Alongside cookies there are other ways of keeping data on a device, such as the browser’s local storage: the law treats them the same way, and so do we here. This page lists everything this site can write, without exception.
The tools indispensable to letting you use the site are set without asking you, because without them the service you requested would not work. All the others require your consent, are off until you give it, and stay off if you refuse.
Your choice
You have not made a choice yet, so at the moment only the strict minimum is active.
We keep your choice for six months. After that we ask you again, and we ask sooner if something relevant changes — for instance if a new external provider comes into play. You can withdraw or change it whenever you like, as easily as you gave it.
Necessary
These make the site work: they hold your basket, remember the market you chose and store this very choice about cookies. They do not profile you and cannot be switched off.
| Identifier | Type | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
country | Cookie | Orecchiette & Things | 12 months | Holds the delivery country you chose. The server reads it before building the page, so prices and currency are already right on the first load. |
market | Cookie | Orecchiette & Things | The browser session | Holds the market Shopify names when you come back here from checkout or an order email, so prices stay those of your country. It does not come from a choice you made and it disappears when you close the browser: if you pick a country from the selector, that choice wins. |
shopify:cartId | Browser local storage | Orecchiette & Things | Until you clear the site data | Holds the reference to your basket, so the items stay in it if you reload the page or come back later. |
oat_consent | Cookie | Orecchiette & Things | 6 months | Records the choice you made here, with the date and the categories you accepted. It exists to honour that choice, to avoid asking again on every page, and to document it. |
External content
They allow content loaded from other providers to appear inside our pages, such as the map of the shop. The provider sees your request and may set identifiers of its own.
| Identifier | Type | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
NID, SOCS, CONSENT | Cookie | Google Ireland Limited google.com | Up to 24 months | Set by Google when the shop map is loaded on the Contact page. Google uses them for display preferences, security and running the service; the request exposes your IP address to Google. Ireland, with possible transfers to the United States under the EU-US data protection framework. |
How our identifiers are built
The Italian authority’s guidelines ask controllers to make explicit the criteria by which identifiers are encoded, so anyone can tell a technical tool from a profiling one without having to guess. Ours are these:
country- It contains two capital letters and nothing else: the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country you chose, for example
IT. oat_consent- It contains a readable document with four fields: the version of this notice your choice refers to, the moment you made it, the list of categories you accepted and the place on the site you made it from. You can open it and read it.
shopify:cartId- It contains the basket identifier generated by Shopify. It is an opaque string: it is not derived from your data and says nothing about you.
None of these values contains or is derived from a personal identifier, and none of them is used to follow you across other sites.
Acting from the browser
Besides the controls on this page you can act from your browser: they all let you block or delete cookies, wholesale or site by site. Bear in mind that deleting them also erases the memory of your choice, and the banner will come back to ask; and that blocking the technical ones will stop the basket working.
Questions
For any doubt about this page write to us at info@orecchietteandthings.com. Your rights and how to exercise them are described in the privacy notice.