Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile 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 help websites remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. This can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

How The Golden Spoon Uses Cookies

At The Golden Spoon, we use cookies for a variety of purposes to improve your experience on our website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that you have control over the cookies that are set on your device.

We use cookies to:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas and making reservations. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like online ordering or account login, cannot be provided.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
• Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.

Types of Cookies We Use

Here's a more detailed explanation of the types of cookies we use and why:

Cookies Used on The Golden Spoon Website

Cookie Name	Purpose	Type	Duration
PHPSESSID	Maintains user session across pages.	Essential	Session
_ga	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	Performance	2 years
_gid	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	Performance	24 hours
cookieconsent_status	Remembers if user has accepted the cookies policy.	Functionality	1 year
ad_id	Used for targeted advertising.	Targeting	3 months

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control the use of cookies on our website by adjusting your browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings preferences. You can set your browser to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or delete cookies when you close your browser. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect your ability to access certain features of our website.

Here’s how you can manage cookies in some of the most popular web browsers:

• Google Chrome: Chrome Cookie Settings
• Mozilla Firefox: Firefox Cookie Settings
• Safari: Safari Cookie Settings
• Microsoft Edge: Edge Cookie Settings

Third-Party Cookies

We may also use third-party services on our website that set cookies. These cookies are subject to the privacy policies of the third-party service providers. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these providers to understand how they use cookies.

Some of the third-party services we use include:

• Google Analytics: To analyze website traffic and user behavior.
• Facebook Pixel: To track conversions from Facebook ads and optimize advertising campaigns.
• Google Ads: To deliver targeted advertising based on user interests and browsing behavior.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or the law. We will post any changes on this page and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:

The Golden Spoon Data Protection Team

400 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (512) 555-GOLD (4653)