Cookie Policy
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Garmlen uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use garmlen.com. Cookies help our website function properly, improve your shopping experience, support secure checkout, remember cart activity, and help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognize your browser, remember certain preferences, maintain session activity, and provide basic website functions such as cart, checkout, account access, and security verification.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We may use necessary cookies, performance cookies, analytics cookies, security cookies, checkout cookies, and preference cookies. These cookies help support website operation, shopping cart activity, payment flow, fraud prevention, website performance, customer service, and general browsing experience.
4. Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are required for core website functions. They may be used to keep items in your cart, process checkout, maintain website sessions, remember form activity, support order placement, protect the website from misuse, and allow secure access to certain website features.
5. Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use garmlen.com, such as which pages are viewed, how users navigate the website, and whether errors occur. This information helps us improve website layout, product browsing, checkout flow, page speed, and customer support experience.
6. Payment and Checkout Cookies
During checkout, cookies or similar technologies may be used by payment providers such as Stripe, PayPal, card networks, and supported digital wallet services to help process payments, verify transactions, reduce fraud risk, and support secure payment authorization. We do not store your full card number, CVV, magnetic stripe data, or complete payment credentials on our website.
7. Shipping, Return, and Order Support
Cookies may help connect your website session with order activity, checkout records, customer service requests, and order support. We provide global shipping services, and detailed shipping terms are available in our Shipping Policy. Return and refund conditions are available in our Return Policy.
8. Security Technologies
garmlen.com uses HTTPS and TLS/SSL encryption to help protect information transmitted between your browser and our website. Cookies may also support security checks, fraud prevention, session protection, suspicious activity detection, and payment dispute review where necessary.
9. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be set by trusted third-party service providers, including payment processors, analytics providers, hosting services, fraud prevention tools, shipping or tracking partners, and website technology providers. These third parties may process cookie-related information according to their own privacy and cookie practices.
10. Cookie Data and Retention
We generally retain customer order, support, return, refund, transaction-related, and cookie-related records for one year, unless a longer period is required by law, tax obligations, fraud prevention, payment dispute handling, chargeback defense, legal claims, or legitimate business needs.
11. Managing Cookies
You may manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that blocking certain cookies may affect website functions, including cart activity, checkout, payment processing, order tracking, account access, saved preferences, or security features.
12. GDPR and Cookie Choices
If GDPR or similar privacy laws apply to you, you may have the right to receive information about cookies, manage consent where required, request access to certain personal data, request correction or deletion, restrict processing, or object to certain processing activities. Some requests may be limited where information is needed for order records, payment security, fraud prevention, dispute handling, or legal compliance.
13. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in website technology, payment providers, analytics tools, legal requirements, or business operations. Updated terms will be posted on garmlen.com, and continued use of the website means you accept the updated Cookie Policy.
14. Contact Information
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, cookie settings, privacy rights, payment security, or how we use website technologies, please contact Garmlen at contact@garmlen.com, +1(303)274-0214, or 6595 W 14th Ave, Ste 201, Lakewood, CO 80214, US.