Cookies & website storage

Essential account and shopping functions

Cookies and browser storage help the website keep you signed in, remember a basket, protect forms and maintain a session. Some shopping cookies are created only after you use the related feature. Blocking essential storage can prevent sign-in, checkout or account functions from working.

Shopping and design choices

Favourites, comparison choices and an unfinished design may use account records or browser storage to keep your selection available. Browser storage is different from a completed order or an approved proof. Clearing it can remove an unsaved local selection.

A saved design in your account follows the access and retention arrangements in our Privacy policy. We do not treat a remembered selection as permission to buy or print it.

Analytics, advertising and embedded services

Use Cookie preferences to choose Essential only or Save preferences or Allow both. Essential shopping and account functions remain available with either choice. Email subscriptions have their own separate opt-in.

With marketing allowed, the Meta pixel and Conversions API help measure visits, product views, baskets, checkout and paid purchases, and support relevant advertising on Meta services. Information can include the page address, event time, product identifiers, order value and currency, browser information and, where matching is enabled, hashed contact details. Hashing does not make personal information anonymous.

Our sqaq_marketing_choice cookie remembers your explicit choice for up to 180 days. The wc_facebook_signals_state cookie tells the Meta integration whether signals are active or held; its vendor preference setting can last up to one year. A new choice is required when SQAQ’s consent choice expires. Meta attribution cookies such as _fbp and _fbc use Meta’s expiry rules and are held until marketing is allowed.

Meta’s browser software may load while event delivery is held. We hold browser and server marketing events until you allow them. Payment, map, review and other embedded services can make separate connections when you use the relevant feature; their own privacy and storage rules also apply.

Google Analytics

The separate Analytics choice controls Google Analytics. It helps us understand visits, pages viewed and shopping activity. It can process page addresses, product identifiers, currency, order value, device/browser information and a pseudonymous browser identifier. Do not include private information in website search or page addresses. We do not send your contact details to Google for advertising matching through this consent integration.

Your sqaq_analytics_choice cookie remembers an explicit Analytics choice for up to 180 days. A previous Meta marketing choice does not grant Analytics permission. Google Analytics is held until Analytics is allowed; it is excluded from private account, management and artwork pages. When you withdraw permission, subsequent Analytics tracking is disabled and this website removes the Analytics cookies it can access. Information already received by Google is not erased by changing this choice.

Analytics and Marketing can be selected separately, or you can choose Essential only. Google advertising storage and advertising contact matching remain denied by this integration. The WordPress Consent API communicates the categories to compatible plugins and may store wp_consent_* preference cookies. Allowing Analytics can take effect on your next page view. No page reload is forced while you complete a form.

Your browser choices

Open Cookie preferences at the lower-left of the page whenever you want to change your choice. Choosing Essential only holds optional Meta events for subsequent browsing and new checkout choices, and removes the attribution cookies this website can access. Orders retain the choice recorded at checkout. Changing the browser choice does not erase information already received by Meta. Contact SQAQ about personal-information requests using our Privacy policy.

You can also view, block or clear cookies and site storage in your browser. You may need to sign in again or rebuild a basket afterwards. Blocking storage prevents us from remembering an allowed choice, so marketing remains held.

For help with a specific cookie or storage item, contact info@sqaq.co.za with its name and the page where it appeared. Do not send cookie values, passwords or session tokens.