Last updated: June 22, 2026
Published by: Civara Workshop
This Cookie Policy explains how civaraworkshop.com uses cookies and similar technologies, and what choices you have. We have written it to reflect what our website actually does, which is deliberately little: we use only the cookies needed to operate the website and the shop, and we do not use tracking, advertising, or profiling cookies.
1. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your device when you visit. Cookies are widely used to make websites work, to remember your actions and preferences, and, on many sites, to track visitors. Similar technologies, such as browser local storage, can be used for comparable purposes. In this policy, we refer to all of these together as “cookies”.
2. Our Approach
We have built this website to keep data collection to a minimum. In practice this means:
- We use only functional and strictly necessary cookies, the cookies required for the website and the shopping cart to work.
- We do not use advertising or marketing cookies.
- We do not use third-party tracking or profiling cookies.
- Our website statistics are collected with self-hosted software that does not set tracking cookies on your device and records your data in anonymised form, as described below.
Because we set no non-essential cookies, we do not ask you to opt in to cookie categories. We show you a short notice informing you of our cookie use, and this policy provides the detail.
3. The Cookies We Use
The cookies set on this website fall into the following groups, all of which are functional or strictly necessary.
Shop and cart (WooCommerce)
These cookies allow the shopping cart and checkout to function, for example by remembering the items in your cart as you move between pages. They are necessary for the shop to work and are not used to track you. They include cart and session cookies such as woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart, and the WooCommerce session cookie, and they expire at the end of your session or within a short period.
Website (WordPress)
Our website runs on WordPress, which may set a small functional cookie to support basic display features of the site. It is not used to track you.
Cookie notice (theme)
When you dismiss our cookie notice, our website theme stores a single flag named us_cookie_notice_accepted so that the notice does not reappear on every page. It records only that you have seen the notice. It is strictly necessary for the notice to function and holds no personal data.
4. Website Statistics, Without Tracking Cookies
We measure how our website is used with Matomo, an analytics application that we host and run ourselves on our own server. We do not use Google Analytics or any third-party analytics service. Our Matomo is configured not to set tracking cookies on your device, and it anonymises visitor IP addresses. Your usage data is not shared with any third party and does not leave our own infrastructure. Because this measurement is cookieless and anonymised, it does not identify you and does not rely on storing identifiers on your device.
5. What We Do Not Use
For the avoidance of doubt, this website does not use advertising cookies, social media tracking pixels, remarketing or retargeting tags, or third-party profiling cookies. We do not load fonts, scripts, or embeds from third parties in a way that shares your data with them; for example, our web fonts are served from our own server rather than loaded from a third party.
6. Managing Cookies in Your Browser
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. You can set your browser to block or warn you about cookies, or to delete cookies that have already been set. Please note that the cookies we use are necessary for the website and the shopping cart to function, so blocking all cookies may prevent parts of the site, including checkout, from working properly. Instructions for managing cookies are available in the help section of your browser.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if our website changes, for example if we introduce a new feature or service. If we ever add cookies that are not strictly necessary, we will update this policy and, where required, ask for your consent before those cookies are set. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.
8. More Information and Contact
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains in full how we handle personal data and the rights available to you. For any question about this policy or our use of cookies, please contact us:
Civara Workshop
Abi Buchwars, Dalgate, Srinagar 190001, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Email: hello@civaraworkshop.com
Data protection enquiries: dsa@civaraworkshop.com
Website: civaraworkshop.com
This Cookie Policy was last reviewed and updated on June 22, 2026. The current version is always available at civaraworkshop.com/cookie-policy.