Cookie Policy

Effective Date: April 20, 2025
Last Updated: April 18, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to CozyLayout.com (the “Website”, “Site”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on our Website, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, how that information is used, and how you can control your cookie preferences.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides more detailed information about how we handle your data.

By using CozyLayout.com, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy, unless you have disabled them.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

3. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes on CozyLayout.com:

  • To Analyze Website Traffic: We use cookies to understand how visitors interact with our Website, which pages are most popular, how long visitors stay, and how they arrived at our site. This helps us improve the Website’s performance and content. (e.g., Google Analytics).
  • To Support Affiliate Marketing: When you click on an affiliate link on our site, a cookie may be placed on your device by the affiliate network or merchant (e.g., Amazon Associates, others). This cookie allows them to track that the referral came from our Website so we can potentially earn a commission if you make a purchase. These cookies do not typically store personally identifiable information about you directly within the cookie itself.
  • To Ensure Basic Functionality: Some cookies may be essential for the basic operation of the Website, potentially set by our website platform or hosting environment.
  • To Manage Consent: We may use a cookie to remember your preferences regarding cookie consent itself.

4. Types of Cookies We Use

The cookies used on CozyLayout.com can generally be categorized as follows:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain basic functionalities might not work. As our site doesn’t have user logins or shopping carts, the use of strictly necessary cookies is likely minimal and related to the underlying platform or security.
  • Performance / Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor directly; all information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use these cookies purely to improve how our Website works.
    • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website usage. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (if any become applicable in the future, like language preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. Currently, our use of these is likely minimal.
  • Targeting / Advertising Cookies (Primarily Affiliate Tracking): These cookies are used to track your visit to our Website and potentially other websites after clicking on an affiliate link from our site. They are typically placed by third-party affiliate networks or merchants (like Amazon) to track referrals and manage commission payments. They remember that you have visited our site and clicked a specific link. This information might be shared with other organizations such as advertisers or affiliate partners.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Please note that third parties (including, for example, affiliate networks like Amazon Associates, analytics providers like Google Analytics, and potentially social media platforms if embeds are used) may also use cookies, over which we have no direct control. These cookies are likely to be analytics/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

We recommend that you check the privacy and cookie policies of these third-party websites for information on the cookies they use and how to manage them.

6. How to Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies (other than strictly necessary cookies). You can control and manage cookies in various ways:

  • Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can set your browser to block cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You can also delete cookies already stored on your device. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
  • Google Analytics Opt-Out: To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
  • Cookie Consent Tool (If Implemented): If we implement a specific cookie consent banner or tool, you can use that to manage your non-essential cookie preferences for our site.

Please be aware that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For example, affiliate link tracking might not work correctly.

7. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us using the details provided in our Privacy Policy or at:

[email protected]