Cookie Policy

Last Updated: September 4, 2026

Church in Miniature (“Church in Miniature,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to help operate our website, provide shopping functionality, understand how visitors use our website, improve our services, and support certain marketing and affiliate activities.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we may use them, and the choices you may have regarding cookies and similar technologies.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow a website to recognize your browser or device and remember certain information.

Some cookies are placed directly by Church in Miniature. Other cookies may be placed by third-party services that operate on or through our website.

2. Why We Use Cookies

Church in Miniature may use cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, including:

Operating our website.
Keeping items in your shopping cart.
Maintaining customer-account sessions.
Remembering certain preferences.
Processing and supporting purchases.
Improving website performance.
Understanding website traffic.
Measuring the effectiveness of marketing.
Supporting affiliate referrals.
Improving our content and user experience.
Helping protect our website from fraud and abuse.
Supporting social-media features.
Providing relevant advertising where applicable.

Not every cookie will be used for every visitor.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Essential Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly.

These may allow us to:

Keep your shopping cart functioning.
Maintain a customer login session.
Complete checkout.
Remember necessary website settings.
Protect forms and transactions.
Maintain website security.

Because these cookies may be necessary for the operation of the website, disabling them may cause certain features to stop working.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may allow our website to remember choices or preferences you have made.

For example, they may help remember certain settings or improve your experience when returning to the website.

Analytics Cookies

We may use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with Church in Miniature.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand information such as:

How visitors reach our website.
Which pages are visited.
How visitors navigate the website.
How long visitors interact with certain content.
General device and browser information.
General geographic information.
Website performance and usage trends.

This information helps us improve Church in Miniature and determine which content and resources are most useful.

Google Analytics may use cookies and similar identifiers to distinguish users and sessions and measure website activity.

For more information about Google’s handling of information, visitors may review Google’s applicable privacy documentation.

Affiliate and Referral Cookies

Church in Miniature may participate in affiliate programs.

When you click certain affiliate links, the company or affiliate network may place a cookie or use another tracking method to determine that you were referred from Church in Miniature.

If you subsequently make a qualifying purchase or complete another qualifying action, the affiliate company may attribute that activity to our website and we may receive compensation.

Affiliate tracking does not necessarily occur on every link or for every product.

Advertising and Social-Media Cookies

Church in Miniature may use advertising or social-media technologies provided by companies such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or other third-party platforms.

These services may use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to:

Measure advertising performance.
Understand interactions with our website.
Measure conversions.
Support social-media features.
Provide or measure advertising.
Help us understand how visitors interact with our content.

The specific technologies used may change as our website and marketing activities develop.

4. WooCommerce Cookies

Our online store uses WooCommerce.

WooCommerce may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary to support shopping and checkout functionality.

These technologies may help with functions such as:

Remembering items added to your cart.
Maintaining shopping sessions.
Supporting checkout.
Remembering certain customer information during a shopping session.
Supporting customer accounts.

If you disable necessary WooCommerce cookies, portions of our online store may not function correctly.

5. Payment-Related Technologies

Church in Miniature may use payment processors such as PayPal and Stripe.

Payment providers may use cookies, fraud-prevention technologies, device information, or similar technologies when you interact with payment services.

These technologies may be used for purposes such as:

Processing transactions.
Authenticating payments.
Detecting fraudulent activity.
Protecting payment systems.
Maintaining payment security.

The payment provider’s own privacy policy and cookie practices may also apply when you interact directly with its services.

6. WooCommerce Tax

We may use WooCommerce Tax or related tax services to help determine applicable taxes on purchases.

These services may process information related to transactions and customer location.

Depending on how the services are configured, certain technologies may be used to support their functionality.

7. Email and MailPoet

Church in Miniature may use MailPoet to manage email subscriptions and send newsletters and other communications.

Email messages may contain technologies that help us understand whether an email was delivered, opened, or interacted with, depending on the configuration of our email service.

We may use this information to improve our communications and understand which content is useful to subscribers.

You can unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.

8. WPForms and Contact Forms

Church in Miniature uses WPForms for contact forms and other forms.

Cookies or similar technologies may be used to help forms operate properly, prevent spam, protect website security, and support form functionality.

Information submitted through a form is handled according to our Privacy Policy.

9. Hostinger and Website Security

Church in Miniature uses Hostinger for website hosting and related infrastructure.

Our hosting and security systems may automatically collect technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, device information, server logs, and information concerning requests made to our website.

These technologies may be used to maintain website performance, reliability, and security and to identify potentially harmful activity.

10. Third-Party Websites

Church in Miniature contains links to external websites.

These may include:

Product retailers.
Catholic organizations.
Affiliate partners.
Product suppliers.
Manufacturers.
Payment providers.
Social-media platforms.
Other websites and resources.

When you leave Church in Miniature and visit another website, that website may use its own cookies and tracking technologies.

We do not control the cookie practices of websites operated by third parties.

You should review the privacy and cookie policies of those websites before providing information or completing a transaction.

11. Cookies From Products and Suppliers

Because Church in Miniature may work with different third-party suppliers, retailers, dropshipping providers, and fulfillment companies, the technologies used by those companies may vary.

When a purchase is completed on an external website, that company’s cookie policy and privacy practices may apply.

Similarly, third-party services used to fulfill orders may have their own technologies and privacy practices.

12. Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

View cookies stored on your device.
Delete existing cookies.
Block certain cookies.
Block all cookies.
Receive a notification before a cookie is stored.

However, blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect the functionality of Church in Miniature.

For example, blocking essential cookies may interfere with shopping-cart, checkout, customer-account, or other website functions.

13. Cookie Consent

Where required by applicable law, Church in Miniature may provide visitors with a cookie-consent mechanism that allows them to make choices concerning certain categories of cookies or tracking technologies.

Your available choices may depend on your location, the technologies being used on the website, and applicable legal requirements.

Essential technologies necessary to provide requested website functions may not be subject to the same consent choices as optional technologies.

14. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” feature.

Because there is not a universally accepted technical standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, Church in Miniature may not respond to every browser-based Do Not Track request.

15. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, plugins, services, advertising practices, analytics tools, affiliate relationships, or applicable legal requirements change.

When we update the policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

16. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on Church in Miniature, please contact us:

Church in Miniature
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