Last updated: June 24, 2026

Cookie & Tracking Notice

This Cookie & Tracking Notice explains how Aroma Country, LLC ("Aroma Country," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on aromacountry.com. It supplements, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy, which describes how we handle personal information more generally. Our store and audience are overwhelmingly based in the United States and our content is in English; we do, however, receive some incidental visitors from elsewhere, which is why the European and UK consent points below are presented as a secondary "where required" note.

What are cookies and tracking technologies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device when you visit. They let a site remember your actions and preferences (such as the items in your cart) over a period of time. We and our service providers also use related technologies — such as pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, and software development kits (SDKs) — that work in similar ways. In this notice we refer to all of these simply as "cookies" or "tracking technologies."

Cookies may be set by us directly (first-party cookies) or by third parties whose services we use, such as analytics and advertising providers (third-party cookies). They may last only for your current visit (session cookies) or remain on your device for a set period (persistent cookies). In the sections below we note, for each category, whether the cookies are first-party or third-party and roughly how long they last.

Categories of cookies we use

Strictly Necessary

These cookies are required for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are set on a first-party basis, and no consent is required to set them. They enable core features like adding products to your cart, completing checkout, keeping your session active, balancing site traffic across servers, and protecting against fraud and security threats (including cross-site request forgery, or CSRF, protection). Our store runs on Shopify, which sets these essential cookies, and we use Blockify to help detect and filter fraudulent orders, bots, and abusive traffic. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

  • Shopify (platform essential cookies) — first-party cookies that keep items in your cart, secure and process checkout, maintain your logged-in session, apply security and anti-CSRF protections, and route/balance traffic. Typically session or short-lived cookies (for example, a cart identifier, a checkout/session token, a CSRF/security token, and a load-balancing cookie).
  • Blockify (fraud / bot filtering) — first-party security/anti-fraud identifiers used to score or flag suspicious sessions. Exact names are not disclosed.

Analytics

These cookies help us understand how visitors find and use our store — for example, which pages are visited, how people arrived, and where we can improve. They are generally aggregated and used to measure and improve site performance. Where required by law (for example, for visitors in the EU or UK), they are set only after you have given consent. Some of the analytics tools below also power Google's Advertising Features, which are described in the Advertising / Marketing and Google sections below.

  • Google Analytics 4 (GA4) — measures traffic, sessions, page views, traffic sources, and conversions. Uses first-party Google Analytics measurement/client-ID and session cookies (commonly named _ga and _ga_<container-id>), which are persistent (they last for a set period). When Google's Advertising Features are active, these first-party cookies operate alongside Google's third-party advertising cookies (see the Google section below).
  • Shopify first-party analytics — Shopify's built-in analytics are a distinct, first-party analytics technology with their own cookies that record visit/session and shopper-activity information (visits, sessions, sales performance) so we can run and improve the store. Exact names vary by Shopify.

Advertising / Marketing

These cookies are used to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you, to build remarketing audiences, to measure the performance of our marketing, and to limit how many times you see an ad. They typically involve third-party advertising cookies that work together with our first-party cookies, and they are generally persistent. Because these technologies may constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for targeted advertising under US state privacy laws, you have the right to opt out — see "Your Choices & How to Opt Out" below. For EU/UK visitors, these are set only where consent has been given. The advertising services we use are:

  • Google Ads / Google & YouTube sales channel — advertising on Google and YouTube, conversion measurement, and remarketing audiences. Uses Google's third-party advertising and conversion cookies, working alongside the first-party GA cookie. See the dedicated Google section below for opt-out options.
  • Google Analytics Advertising Features — Google Signals, Demographics & Interests reporting, and Remarketing, which extend GA4 with advertising and audience capabilities. First-party Google Analytics cookies work together with Google's third-party advertising cookies. Detailed below.
  • Shopify Audiences / personalized advertising — Shopify's advertising features (including Shopify Audiences) help build audiences and support personalized advertising and ad measurement across participating Shopify stores and ad platforms. These use first-party Shopify cookies/identifiers that may be shared with third-party ad platforms, which may itself constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information under US state privacy laws (see your opt-out options below).
  • UpPromote (affiliate referral tracking) — a first-party affiliate attribution cookie that records the referring affiliate and referral window so partners are correctly credited for sales they refer (for example, recognizing that you arrived through an affiliate or partner link). Because this supports marketing attribution, we classify it here under Advertising / Marketing rather than as a purely functional cookie.

Functional / Preferences

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. They are set on a first-party basis and are generally persistent so your preferences are remembered on return visits. Where required by law (for example, for EU/UK visitors), they are set only after consent. They are used by apps that power parts of our store experience, including:

  • Judge.me — product reviews and review widgets;
  • Smile.io — our loyalty and rewards program (points, rewards, and membership state);
  • Appstle Subscriptions — managing recurring/subscription orders and selections at cart/checkout;
  • UserWay — our accessibility widget, which can remember your accessibility preferences;
  • Translate & Adapt — store translation/localization, which may store your selected language preference.

We also use TinySEO for store SEO functionality; it is listed here for transparency about our app stack, and no meaningful tracking cookies are disclosed for it. If functional cookies are blocked, some features may not work as intended.

Google Analytics & Advertising Features

We use Google Analytics together with Google's Advertising Features. Specifically, we have enabled:

  • Google Signals — which can associate measurement data with signed-in Google users (across devices) who have turned on Ads Personalization. Google Signals is enabled and, as of June 24, 2026, restricted to visitors in the United States.
  • Demographics & Interests reporting — which provides estimated age, gender, and interest categories to help us understand our audience.
  • Remarketing — which allows us to show relevant ads to people who have previously visited our store.

To provide these features, first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) work together with third-party cookies (such as Google's advertising cookies, including Google Ads / DoubleClick cookies). In other words, data collected through Google's first-party analytics cookies works together with data from Google's third-party advertising cookies to enable the reporting and advertising features described above.

You can control or opt out of these features in several ways:

Your Choices & How to Opt Out

Browser controls

Most web browsers let you view, manage, delete, and block cookies. You can usually find these options in your browser's "Settings," "Preferences," or "Privacy" menu. Please note that if you block or delete strictly necessary cookies, parts of our store may not function properly. To manage interest-based advertising more broadly, you can also use industry tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page and the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

Some browsers and extensions can send a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal that automatically communicates your privacy preference to the websites you visit. Where applicable, Shopify (our e-commerce platform) is designed to recognize and honor the GPC signal as a valid request to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for the browser and device on which it is enabled.

U.S. state privacy rights — "Do Not Sell or Share"

Depending on your state of residence (for example, California under the CCPA/CPRA, as well as Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia, and other states with comparable laws), you may have the right to opt out of the "sale" of your personal information or its "sharing"/processing for targeted advertising. Some of the advertising cookies described above — including Google Ads, Google Analytics Advertising Features, and Shopify Audiences / personalized advertising — may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" under these laws. You can exercise this right by enabling the Global Privacy Control as described above, or by contacting us using the details below. For more information about your rights and how to exercise them, please see our Privacy Policy.

EU/UK visitors — consent

Our store and audience are primarily based in the United States, but we welcome visitors from elsewhere. Strictly necessary cookies are exempt from consent and are always set, because they are required to provide the services you request. Analytics, advertising/marketing, and functional cookies are non-essential. Where required by law — such as for visitors in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom under the GDPR and ePrivacy rules — these non-essential cookies are set only after you have given consent, and you may withdraw your consent or change your cookie preferences at any time. Where a consent banner or preference tool is presented to you, you can use it to manage these choices.

Changes to this notice

We may update this Cookie & Tracking Notice from time to time to reflect changes in the technologies we use or in applicable law. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie & Tracking Notice or our use of cookies and tracking technologies, please contact us: