Cookie Policy

Last Updated: May 21, 2025

Hello from Dear Person Behind Me Hoodie (“DPBMH,” “us,” “we,” or “our”)! This document explains how we use digital cookies and similar small technologies on our website, dearpersonbehindmehoodie.com (which we’ll call the “Site”). Our aim with “Hoodies with Purpose, Crafted for you” extends to ensuring transparency in how our Site works for you.

When you use our Site, you’re letting us know you’re okay with us using cookies as we describe here. This policy goes hand-in-hand with our main Privacy Policy (found at https://dearpersonbehindmehoodie.com/privacy-policy), which gives you the bigger picture on how we treat any personal information.

1. What Exactly Are These “Cookies”?

Think of cookies as tiny information files. When you visit a website, that site might ask your web browser (like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari) to store these files on your computer, phone, or tablet. They’re a standard part of how most modern websites function.

Cookies help websites remember things about your visit, which can make your next visit smoother and the site more useful to you. They serve many purposes.

There are a few main types:

  • Short-Term (Session) Cookies: These are like temporary notes that disappear when you close your web browser.
  • Long-Term (Persistent) Cookies: These stick around on your device for a pre-set amount of time or until you decide to delete them. They wake up each time you revisit the site that created them.
  • Our Own (First-Party) Cookies: These are placed directly by our Site, dearpersonbehindmehoodie.com.
  • Others’ (Third-Party) Cookies: These come from a different website than the one you’re currently on. This happens if our Site includes elements from other places (like a link to TeeChip, our product partner).

2. Our Approach to Using Cookies on This Site

At DPBMH, cookies play a vital role in making sure our Site runs properly and in helping us understand how you, our visitors, interact with our designs and content. We don’t use cookies on our Site to follow your shopping habits on other websites. Their main job here is to keep our own Site functional and to help us improve it.

Here’s a look at the kinds of cookies that our Site (built on WordPress, which uses certain plugins) might use:

  • A. Absolutely Essential Cookies:
    • Their Job: These are the nuts and bolts. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to move around our Site or use its basic features properly. Things like making sure pages load correctly or keeping the site secure depend on these.
    • Think of: Cookies that manage your current visit (session), help with site navigation, or protect against security threats.
    • Your Okay: You don’t usually need to give special permission for these because the Site simply can’t work without them. We’re just letting you know they’re here.
  • B. Site Performance & Insight Cookies (Analytical):
    • Their Job: These cookies gather anonymous information about how people use our Site. For example, which pages get the most visits, how long people stay on a page, or if they encounter any errors. This information is usually grouped together and doesn’t identify you personally. It helps us make our Site better.
    • Think of: Cookies from tools that count visitors (like basic WordPress stats or Google Analytics, if we use it) and show us where visitors are coming from or what content is popular.
    • Your Okay: Where laws require it, we’ll ask for your consent for these, often through a notice bar when you first visit.
  • C. Feature-Enhancing Cookies (Functionality):
    • Their Job: These allow our Site to remember choices you’ve made (like a language setting) to give you a more personalized experience. They can also remember if you’ve changed text size or other customizable parts of the Site.
    • Think of: Cookies that remember if you’ve already seen a pop-up message so it doesn’t show again.
    • Your Okay: We’ll ask for your consent for these too, where legally necessary.
  • D. Marketing-Related Cookies (Mainly from Our Partners):
    • Their Job: DPBMH doesn’t place cookies on its own Site to show you targeted ads for our hoodie designs elsewhere. However, a key part of our Site is linking you to our product partner, TeeChip (TeeChip.com). When you go to TeeChip’s site by clicking a link from ours, TeeChip might use cookies. Their cookies could be used by them or their advertising partners to understand your interests and show you relevant ads on other websites.
    • Very Important about TeeChip: Once you click a link and land on TeeChip.com, their cookie and privacy rules apply. We don’t control what cookies TeeChip uses. We highly recommend checking TeeChip’s own policies on cookies and advertising.
    • Your Okay (for TeeChip): You’d manage your consent for TeeChip’s marketing cookies directly on their platform when you visit them.

3. Cookies from Other Websites (Third Parties)

As we’ve highlighted, the main “other website” interaction on our Site involves connecting you to TeeChip for your hoodie purchases.

  • TeeChip’s Role: When you go to TeeChip.com, their site will almost certainly use cookies. These help them process your order, remember your preferences on their site, gather statistics, and possibly for their marketing. DPBMH isn’t in charge of how TeeChip uses cookies. You’ll need to look at TeeChip’s own Cookie Policy (it’s usually near their Privacy Policy) for those details.
  • Other Embedded Content: If, in the future, we add things like videos from YouTube or feeds from social media sites, those services might also set their own cookies. Their use of cookies will be up to them and their policies.

4. You’re in Control: Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have power over cookies and can manage them in a few ways:

  • Through Your Web Browser: Most internet browsers give you options to control cookies in their settings menu (often called ‘Options,’ ‘Settings,’ or ‘Preferences’). You can typically:
    • See what cookies are stored.
    • Allow all cookies.
    • Block all cookies.
    • Block only third-party cookies.
    • Delete all cookies when you close your browser.
    • Get alerts when a new cookie is being offered.
  • Keep in mind that if you block or delete cookies, some features on our Site (and many others) might not work as expected. Blocking the “absolutely essential” ones could stop the Site from working for you altogether.
    You can find specific instructions for major browsers online by searching for “manage cookies [your browser name]”.
  • Our Site’s Consent Tool: Depending on where you are browsing from, our Site might show a cookie consent banner on your first visit. This tool lets you choose your preferences for any non-essential cookies our Site uses.
  • Tools to Opt-Out from Certain Third Parties: For some third-party cookies (like those from analytics services or ad networks), there might be special opt-out tools or browser extensions available. For example, Google offers a browser add-on to opt out of Google Analytics tracking.

5. Keeping This Policy Up-to-Date

We might need to adjust this Cookie Policy sometimes, perhaps due to new technologies, legal updates, or changes in how we operate. If we make changes, the “Effective Date” at the top will be updated. We suggest checking this page now and then to stay informed about our cookie practices.

6. Need More Information or Have Questions?

To understand more about how we handle any personal information overall, please see our main Privacy Policy: https://dearpersonbehindmehoodie.com/privacy-policy.

If you have any specific questions about how we use cookies or anything in this Cookie Policy, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
Email us at: hello@dearpersonbehindmehoodie.com
Or contact us through our Site: https://dearpersonbehindmehoodie.com/contact-us

We appreciate you taking the time to learn about our cookie usage at Dear Person Behind Me Hoodie.