Cookie Policy
Last updated: October 17, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.
Cookies help us understand how you use our Services, remember your preferences, and improve your overall experience on the Apetables platform.
2. How We Use Cookies
Apetables uses cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential functionality: To enable core features of our platform
- Security: To protect your account and prevent fraud
- Preferences: To remember your settings and choices
- Analytics: To understand how visitors use our website
- Marketing: To deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign effectiveness
- Performance: To improve the speed and functionality of our Services
3. Types of Cookies We Use
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. Without these cookies, services you have requested cannot be provided.
Note: These cookies cannot be disabled as they are necessary for the platform to work.
Examples:
- cookieConsent: Stores your cookie preferences
- Session cookies: Maintain your login session
- Security cookies: Authenticate users and prevent fraud
- Load balancing cookies: Distribute traffic across our servers
3.2 Analytics and Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our Services.
Examples:
- Google Analytics (_ga, _gid, _gat): Track visitor behavior and site usage
- Google Tag Manager: Manage tracking and analytics tags
- Performance monitoring: Measure page load times and performance
Retention period: Up to 2 years
3.3 Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your language preference or location) and provide enhanced, personalized features.
Examples:
- Language preferences: Remember your chosen language
- Display preferences: Remember your viewing preferences
- Form data: Remember information you've entered in forms
- Location settings: Store your location preferences for delivery
Retention period: Up to 1 year
3.4 Marketing and Targeting Cookies
These cookies track your browsing habits to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
Examples:
- Google Ads: Deliver personalized advertisements
- Facebook Pixel: Track conversions from Facebook ads
- Remarketing cookies: Show you relevant ads on other websites
- Conversion tracking: Measure the success of marketing campaigns
Retention period: Up to 2 years
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services. We use the following third-party services:
Google Tag Manager (GTM)
Purpose: Manage tracking and analytics tags on our website
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Analytics
Purpose: Analyze website traffic and user behavior
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Payment Processors
Purpose: Process secure payments for orders and reservations
We use trusted payment providers who set their own cookies to process transactions securely.
5. How to Manage Cookies
You have several options to manage or disable cookies:
5.1 Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner. You can:
- Accept All: Allow all cookies
- Decline: Reject non-essential cookies
- Settings: Customize your cookie preferences (coming soon)
5.2 Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies only
- Delete cookies when you close your browser
- View and delete individual cookies
Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:
- Chrome: Cookie settings in Chrome
- Firefox: Cookie settings in Firefox
- Safari: Cookie settings in Safari
- Edge: Cookie settings in Edge
Important: Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may impact your experience on our website. Some features may not work properly, and you may need to re-enter your preferences each time you visit.
6. Do Not Track (DNT)
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that signals to websites that you don't want to be tracked. Currently, there is no universal standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals. However, you can use the cookie management options described above to control tracking.
7. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business practices. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the updated policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Related Policies
These Terms should be read in conjunction with our other policies: