Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 02 August 2025

At Flamecraft & Soultrace — a registered sub-brand of Sisuvalo Oy — transparency matters. This Cookie Policy explains how and why we use cookies and similar technologies on our website, ensuring your trust is met with clarity, care, and respect.

🍪 What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They help make your experience smoother, faster, more secure, and more personalized.

🎯 Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• To ensure website functionality, security and proper operation
• To enhance your browsing and shopping experience
• To analyze traffic and usage patterns via Google Analytics 4
• To remember your configuration settings (e.g., product designs, login state, cart items)
• To enable secure login and social login (Google & Facebook)
• To measure advertising effectiveness via Google Ads (with consent)

🔍 Types of Cookies We Use

Our website uses cookies grouped into the following categories:

• Essential Cookies – Required for core functionality such as:
  • Shopping cart and checkout
  • WooCommerce session handling
  • Login and account security
  • Fancy Product Designer configuration storage
• Functional Cookies – Enable enhanced features such as:
  • Saving design progress
  • Preference settings
  • Social login state
• Analytics Cookies (with consent) – Used to understand site usage:
  • Google Analytics 4 (IP anonymization where possible)
• Marketing Cookies (with consent) – Support advertising and performance measurement:
  • Google Ads Conversion Tracking

🛠️ Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are set by trusted third-party providers we use to run our website securely and effectively:

• WooCommerce – Essential cookies for shop, checkout, sessions and cart handling.
• Fancy Product Designer – Stores configuration data and design settings.
• Stripe – Secure payment processing cookies related to fraud prevention and session validation.
• Klarna – Cookies related to Klarna checkout options, when used.
• Google Analytics 4 – Analytics cookies (statistics category only with consent).
• Google Ads – Marketing cookies for ad performance measurement (with consent).
• Nextend Social Login (Google & Facebook)
  If you use social login, these providers may place cookies to authenticate your identity and maintain secure login sessions.
  
  Google LLC and Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. may process data based on their own policies:
  Google Privacy Policy
  Facebook Privacy Policy
  
  You can control data shared during social login via your Google or Facebook account settings.
• Future Tools: Some personalization or upload services such as Chamevo may add their own functional cookies when activated. These will be displayed transparently in the Complianz cookie banner.

📋 Cookie Consent and Management

When you visit our website for the first time, you are asked to consent to the use of cookies via our Complianz cookie banner. The banner explains each category and lets you choose what to allow.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the “Cookie Settings” link available at the bottom of every page.

🛡️ Data Protection and Privacy

All data collected through cookies is processed according to our Privacy Policy and GDPR requirements. We do not use cookies to collect sensitive personal data or identify users directly unless you explicitly choose such features (e.g., social login).

⚙️ How to Control Cookies

You can control or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. Depending on the browser, you may:

• View stored cookies
• Delete all cookies
• Block cookies from specific websites
• Block all cookies
• Receive warnings before cookies are stored

Please note: disabling essential cookies may impair the functional use of our shop (e.g., checkout, login, or product configurations).

🛠️ Updates to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or the services we use. Updated versions will be posted here with a revised effective date.

⚖️ Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

This Cookie Policy is governed by the laws of Finland. Any disputes arising in relation to our use of cookies shall be exclusively resolved in Lapin käräjäoikeus (Lapland District Court), Finland.

Thank you for trusting Flamecraft & Soultrace.
We honor your journey — with care, clarity, and golden sparks.