Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains the browser storage and similar technologies that CrocsDeal uses or may use. It should be read with the Privacy Policy. Optional technologies are not enabled merely because they are described here.

What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small text records associated with a browser. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, and identifiers used to remember a choice, protect a service, measure activity, or deliver advertising. A technology may be first-party, associated with CrocsDeal, or third-party, associated with a service provider.

Necessary storage

Public articles are available without signing in. Necessary cookies may be used for protected editorial administration, security, request integrity, and session continuity. These technologies are not used to personalize public advertising. The light or dark theme choice is stored locally in the browser so the site can remember the visitor's preference; it is not sent to an advertising provider.

Consent and preference records

Analytics uses the separate first-party Analytics preferences control described below. Google Privacy & Messaging manages the regional advertising choices; the analytics control does not replace or grant advertising consent. For personalized ads in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, the implementation must use a Google-certified platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework and produce current TCF v2.3 signals. Google ad tags are not called when the required storage consent is absent. The footer's Privacy and cookie settings control reopens the active provider so a visitor can review or withdraw a choice.

Analytics

Google Analytics is optional and is available only after an explicit analytics choice. It is not activated by accepting advertising choices.

Advertising

If Google AdSense is enabled, Google and participating ad technology providers may use cookies for ad delivery, frequency control, fraud prevention, reporting, measurement, and—only where permitted and consented—personalization. Advertising cookies may be associated with domains such as Google, DoubleClick, Google Syndication, or Google Ad Services. Other enabled vendors may set their own technologies as disclosed in the certified consent message.

You can manage personalized Google advertising through Google Ads Settings and participating third-party choices through aboutads.info. Browser controls can block or delete storage, but doing so may remove saved choices and can affect necessary sign-in features. A browser control is not always a substitute for a legally required consent or opt-out signal.

Regional privacy choices

Where applicable, the consent provider may communicate European consent signals and United States opt-out signals, including Global Privacy Platform or Global Privacy Control signals supported by the provider and advertising service. CrocsDeal must respect a valid withdrawal before optional collection resumes. Rejecting optional cookies does not block access to editorial content.

Policy-only pages

Privacy, cookie, data-rights, and other legal pages suppress external consent, analytics, and advertising runtimes. This keeps the disclosure URLs usable without loading an ad tag or the consent-message tag that the page is intended to explain.

Changes and questions

The effective and updated dates on this page identify the current version. Material changes to optional purposes or providers require updated disclosures and, where necessary, a new choice. Use the verified contact in Publisher details for questions or to report a consent control that is not working.

Analytics preferences on CrocsDeal

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand visits to public editorial pages. Before you choose Allow analytics, no Google Analytics tag, request or cookie is started by our analytics integration. Reject analytics leaves it off and does not restrict reading. Close does not give consent. The Analytics preferences button in the footer lets you withdraw or change your choice, including on this policy page. Google advertising choices remain separate.

Your choice is stored only in this browser on this website in a versioned local-storage record named blog-analytics-consent, with the tenant identifier, chosen setting and time. It expires after 180 days; deleting browser storage also removes the choice. If the browser cannot save your choice, analytics stays off. This preference record is not sent to Google.

After acceptance, Google receives page-view, basic session and advertising-impression statistics, including the page title, cleaned page address, limited referrer, browser/device information and technical connection information. Advertising-impression statistics can be reported by the existing AdSense integration after Analytics starts; choosing analytics does not grant advertising personalization consent. We remove URL query strings and fragments from the page address, reduce external referrers to their origin, do not send account IDs or form values, and disable Google Signals and advertising-personalization signals in the tag. Analytics is not loaded on private administration, search, preview or legal pages.

Our host-only analytics cookies use the blog_analytics prefix, including blog_analytics_ga and a stream-specific blog_analytics_ga cookie. They have a configured lifetime of 180 days, refreshed by Analytics use while consent remains valid. Withdrawal stops future collection and removes these site analytics cookies; it does not retrospectively erase data already received by Google. Event-level retention in the existing property is two months and user-level retention is fourteen months, with user retention reset by new activity. These settings do not set the lifespan of aggregated reports. Contact the operator listed on this page for data-rights requests.

Google may process data internationally. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy. Changes to analytics purposes require an updated disclosure and, where required, a new choice.