Cookie Policy
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1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, provide a better user experience, and supply information to website owners.
2. How We Use Cookies
Spinaltendon uses cookies and similar technologies to:
- Ensure the proper functioning of our website
- Remember your cookie consent preferences
- Analyze visitor behavior and improve our services (only with your consent)
- Measure the effectiveness of our content and advertising campaigns, including Google Ads (only with your consent)
Our use of personal information collected through cookies is also described in our Privacy Policy, which complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.
Non-essential cookies (analytics and marketing) are not placed until you choose Accept All or enable those categories in Cookie Settings. Choosing Decline limits storage to what is strictly necessary for the site to function and to remember your choice.
3. Categories of Cookies
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as navigation, access to secure areas, and remembering your cookie preferences. These cookies cannot be disabled.
- cookie_consent — Stores your cookie consent preferences. Duration: 12 months.
3.2 Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website by collecting information anonymously. This data helps us improve website structure and content.
- Page views and navigation paths
- Time spent on pages
- Device and browser information
- Approximate geographic location
3.3 Marketing Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver content that is relevant to you and to measure the effectiveness of our campaigns. They may be set by us or by third-party advertising partners.
- Tracking of ad interactions
- Content personalization based on browsing behavior
- Campaign performance measurement
4. Managing Your Preferences
When you first visit our website, a cookie consent banner is displayed allowing you to:
- Accept All: Enable all cookie categories
- Decline: Disable all non-essential cookies
- Cookie Settings: Choose which categories to enable or disable
Your preferences are stored in your browser's localStorage and persist for 12 months. You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser's local storage data and revisiting the website.
5. Browser-Level Controls
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View and delete individual cookies
- Block cookies from specific or all websites
- Set preferences for first-party and third-party cookies
- Enable "Do Not Track" requests
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
6. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services we use for analytics or advertising (for example, Google Analytics or Google Ads conversion tracking) when you consent to those categories. These providers may collect information about your visits to this and other websites. Their use of data is governed by their own privacy policies. We recommend reviewing Google's policies at policies.google.com/privacy.
We do not enable marketing or analytics cookies until you have given consent through our cookie banner.
7. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable regulations. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
8. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:
- Email: business@spinaltendon.world
- Address: 44 Burns Street, Ohakune 4625, New Zealand
- Phone: +64 22 035 7765