Z.Harvest Gems uses cookies and similar tracking technologies for a few reasons:

• Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the website to function properly. For example, when you add items to your shopping cart and navigate the site, a cookie keeps track of your cart so that it doesn’t reset on each page. If you log into an account, cookies keep you logged in during your session. These cookies are generally session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and are set by our platform (Wix) or our e-commerce system. Without these, the site might not work as intended.

• Preference Cookies: We might use cookies to remember preferences you set, like your location or currency (if we offer multi-currency), or whether you dismissed a one-time pop-up so it doesn’t keep showing. These enhance your experience but are not strictly necessary.

• Analytics Cookies: To understand how visitors use our site, we use third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics (and/or Wix’s built-in analytics). These cookies collect information about your interaction with our site, like pages visited, time spent, and any errors encountered. This data helps us improve our website design, content, and overall user experience. The information collected is usually aggregated and not personally identifiable; for example, we might see that “X number of users visited the New Arrivals page” or “Most users are from the U.S.” but we don’t know that you specifically visited a certain page. Google Analytics may set cookies like _ga to track pages, and it may collect your IP address (which can infer geolocation). We have configured Google Analytics to anonymize IP addresses if possible.

• Advertising and Social Media Cookies: As of now, we do not run third-party ads on our site, so we’re not placing ad network cookies for targeting. However, if we embed content from social networks (for example, an Instagram feed or a Pinterest “Pin it” button), those third parties might set cookies. Additionally, if in the future we do retargeting ads (showing you our product ads on other sites after you visit ours), that would involve advertising cookies. We will update this policy if we begin using such cookies. For now, any social media or embedded content cookies are primarily to allow you to share content or to let those platforms recognize you (for instance, if you are logged into Instagram and you “like” our photo embedded on our site, Instagram may record that).