Last Updated: January 1, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how KuraCraft Market uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our platform. Understanding these technologies helps you make informed decisions about your privacy preferences.
What Cookies Are and How We Use Them
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our platform. They help us recognize your browser, remember your preferences, and understand how you interact with our services.
We use cookies for essential functions like maintaining your login session, optional features like analytics that help us improve the platform, and performance monitoring that ensures smooth operation across different devices and browsers.
Essential Cookies We Deploy
Essential cookies are necessary for core platform functionality and cannot be disabled without preventing you from using our services. These include session cookies that keep you logged in, security cookies that protect against fraudulent activity, and load balancing cookies that distribute traffic efficiently.
Shopping cart cookies remember items you've selected for purchase. Account preference cookies maintain your language settings, display preferences, and accessibility options. These cookies do not track your browsing beyond our platform.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors navigate our platform, which features are most popular, and where users encounter difficulties. This data is aggregated and anonymized, helping us identify areas for improvement without tracking individual users.
Performance cookies monitor page load times, server response rates, and error frequencies. This technical data helps us maintain reliable service and optimize the user experience across different connection speeds and devices.
Functional Enhancement Cookies
Functional cookies remember choices you make to personalize your experience. These might include your preferred workshop location, saved search filters, or notification settings. Disabling these cookies means you'll need to reset preferences each visit.
For artisan accounts, these cookies remember dashboard layout preferences, listing draft autosaves, and bulk editing selections to make store management more efficient.
Third-Party Cookies From Our Partners
Payment processors place cookies to facilitate secure transactions and prevent fraud. Shipping calculators use cookies to remember your location for accurate rate estimates. Email service providers may place cookies when you interact with embedded content or subscription forms.
These third-party cookies are governed by their respective privacy policies. We require all partners to maintain strict data protection standards and use cookies only for their intended purposes.
How Long Cookies Remain Active
Session cookies expire when you close your browser, providing temporary functionality during your visit. Persistent cookies remain on your device for set periods ranging from 24 hours for security tokens to 12 months for preference settings.
Analytics cookies typically last 30 days. Authentication cookies remain valid for 30 days of inactivity, requiring re-login for security. You can delete all cookies manually through your browser settings at any time.
Similar Technologies We Employ
Web beacons are tiny transparent images that help us track email engagement and understand which platform features are used most. Local storage retains larger amounts of data like cached images and recent search history to improve load times.
Device fingerprinting helps prevent fraud by identifying suspicious patterns without tracking personal information. This technology analyzes configuration data like screen resolution, fonts, and browser plugins to create a unique identifier.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Our cookie consent banner appears when you first visit and allows you to accept all cookies, reject optional cookies, or customize settings by category. Your choices are stored and respected across all future visits unless you clear your browser data.
You can modify preferences at any time through the cookie settings link in our footer. Changes take effect immediately, though some features may require essential cookies to function properly.
Browser-Level Cookie Controls
All modern browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings. Most browsers let you block third-party cookies while allowing first-party cookies from sites you visit directly.
Blocking all cookies will prevent you from logging in and using many platform features. Deleting cookies means losing saved preferences and shopping cart contents. Browser help documentation provides specific instructions for managing cookies in your particular browser.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer Do Not Track settings that send signals to websites requesting not to be tracked. Because there is no universal standard for interpreting these signals, our platform does not currently respond to Do Not Track requests.
You can achieve similar results by using our cookie preference center to disable analytics and non-essential cookies, which provides explicit control over tracking on our platform.
Cookies in Mobile Applications
When you access our platform through mobile devices, similar technologies may be used including mobile advertising identifiers and app-specific storage. Mobile operating systems provide settings to limit ad tracking and reset advertising identifiers.
Mobile browser cookie controls work similarly to desktop browsers. Check your device settings for options to limit cross-app tracking and manage privacy preferences.
Impact on Platform Functionality
Disabling essential cookies prevents login, checkout, and account management functions. Analytics cookies being disabled does not affect your ability to browse or purchase but may slightly delay some interface improvements.
Without functional cookies, you'll lose personalization features and need to re-enter preferences each visit. Third-party cookie blocking may affect payment processing, requiring alternative verification methods.
Updates to Cookie Usage
We review and update our cookie practices regularly to reflect new features, technologies, and privacy regulations. Material changes to how we use cookies will be communicated through updated consent banners and email notifications to registered users.
The "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy indicates when changes were made. Regular review of this policy helps you stay informed about our cookie practices.
Questions About Our Cookie Practices
If you have questions about our cookie use, need help managing your preferences, or want to understand how specific cookies work, contact our privacy team:
Email: privacy@torainwood.com
Mail: Cookie Policy Inquiries, KuraCraft Market, Japan, 〒222-0037 Kanagawa, Yokohama, Kohoku Ward, Okurayama, 2 Chome−7−47 シャトレ大倉山 103
We respond to cookie-related questions within 15 business days.