Cookie Policy

1. Purpose of this Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Pearl Frostichard Pty Ltd uses cookies, local storage and similar browser technologies on the Pearl Frostichard website. It should be read with the Privacy Policy. The current site is intentionally built with local styles, scripts, images and icons and is designed not to load remote advertising, analytics, social-media or font resources.

A cookie is a small text record that a website may ask a browser to store. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, cache records and security identifiers. Some technologies are necessary for a requested feature, while others may be used for preferences, measurement or marketing.

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3. Current use of browser storage

The public site is designed to function without non-essential cookies. The navigation menu, page tabs, responsive layout, local inquiry confirmation and loading of business details from adress.json can operate without advertising identifiers or third-party tracking. Normal browser caching may still store local website files to improve performance, and a hosting server may keep short-lived technical logs for security and delivery.

At the effective date of this Policy, the site does not intentionally set third-party analytics cookies, behavioural advertising cookies, cross-site tracking pixels or embedded social-media cookies. Because browser tools, extensions and hosting environments can differ, users may review stored data through their browser settings.

4. Strictly necessary technologies

Strictly necessary technologies support functions requested by the user, security, network management, accessibility and basic page delivery. Depending on the hosting environment, these may include a session identifier, load-balancing value, fraud-prevention token, consent record or security preference. Such technologies are used only to the extent reasonably necessary and are not used to create advertising profiles.

Where consent is not legally required for a strictly necessary technology, it may operate by default. Users can still configure their browser to block it, but doing so may prevent a requested feature from working correctly.

5. Functional preferences

Functional storage may remember a user choice such as language, display preference, dismissed notice or accessibility setting. The current version of the website does not require persistent preference cookies for ordinary use. If such functionality is introduced, the relevant storage name, purpose and duration will be disclosed and consent will be requested where required.

6. Analytics

The current website does not intentionally use remote analytics services. If privacy-respecting analytics are introduced in the future, we will assess whether the service uses cookies or other identifiers, whether information is transferred overseas and whether consent is required. Optional analytics will remain disabled until the required consent has been obtained.

Any future analytics should be configured to minimise data, shorten retention, avoid unnecessary precision, restrict provider use and prevent advertising reuse where reasonably possible.

7. Marketing and social media

The current website does not intentionally use marketing cookies, retargeting pixels, embedded social feeds or social login tools. Decorative social icons do not initiate a connection to a social network. If a real third-party social or marketing feature is added, it will be clearly identified and will not be activated before consent where applicable.

Consent for marketing technologies, if ever requested, will be optional and separate from access to basic website content. Refusing marketing cookies will not prevent a user from reading the menu or submitting a genuine inquiry through available channels.

8. First-party and third-party technologies

A first-party cookie is set by the website being visited. A third-party cookie is set or read by another service whose code or content is included on the page. The current local-resource architecture reduces third-party connections. If a third-party booking, mapping, payment or media service is introduced, its separate privacy and cookie practices may apply.

We will review third-party services before integration and seek to limit them to functions that provide a genuine user benefit. Links that merely take a user to another website do not, by themselves, cause that website’s cookies to operate on the Pearl Frostichard site.

9. Duration

Session cookies generally expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until their configured expiry date or until deleted. Local storage may remain until removed by the website or user. Security logs and cache records may follow different retention periods determined by operational and legal requirements.

Where optional technologies are introduced, the site will identify their expected duration or provide a practical category, and we will avoid keeping identifiers longer than reasonably necessary for the stated purpose.

10. Consent and withdrawal

Where applicable law requires consent, optional cookies and similar technologies will be disabled until the user makes a clear affirmative choice. Consent should be specific, informed and freely given, and refusal should be as easy as acceptance. A user may withdraw consent at any time through the available settings or by clearing relevant browser data.

Withdrawal affects future use of the technology but does not make earlier processing unlawful where it was based on valid consent. Strictly necessary technologies may continue where they are required for a requested service or another lawful purpose.

11. Browser controls

Most browsers allow users to inspect, delete, block or limit cookies and site data. Controls are usually found in privacy, security or site settings. Users can often remove data for a single site, block third-party cookies, clear data on exit or use a private browsing mode.

Blocking all storage may affect sign-in, preferences, security tools or forms on websites generally. Browser settings are controlled by the browser provider, so instructions and labels may change. Users should consult the help information supplied with their browser or device.

12. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

Some browsers or extensions transmit Global Privacy Control, Do Not Track or similar signals. Legal recognition and technical standards vary by jurisdiction. Because the current site does not intentionally run behavioural advertising or cross-site tracking, these signals do not ordinarily change its operation. If relevant tracking is introduced, we will assess and honour legally required signals.

13. Personal information generated by technologies

A cookie or log entry may contain or be linked with an IP address, device information, session time, requested page or security event. Where this information relates to an identifiable person, it is handled under the Privacy Policy. We use technical information for delivery, troubleshooting, security, compliance and improvement, and do not sell it.

We minimise collection and restrict access according to role and need. Information may be disclosed to a hosting or security provider only where necessary and subject to appropriate contractual and technical safeguards.

14. International processing

If website hosting, security or future optional services process information outside Australia, applicable transfer rules and safeguards will be considered. Where GDPR applies to a restricted transfer, an available mechanism such as an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or another lawful safeguard will be used.

15. Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy when the website, technologies, providers or legal requirements change. The revised date will appear on the page. Before introducing a material optional tracking technology, we will update the Policy and implement any required consent mechanism.

Users are encouraged to review this page periodically. A material change will not be treated as consent where applicable law requires a separate affirmative choice.