Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files or pieces of information that may be stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels, device identifiers, and other technologies that help websites and online services operate.

Cookies can serve different purposes, including maintaining website functionality, improving security, preventing fraud, remembering preferences, processing payments, and enabling third-party services.

The Stir Community currently uses cookies and similar technologies primarily where they are necessary or reasonably related to providing website functionality, payment processing, fraud prevention, security, and scheduling services.

We do not currently use cookies for behavioural advertising, targeted advertising, or advertising retargeting on stircommunity.com.

The cookies and similar technologies that may be present can vary depending on which features of the website you use. For example, payment-related technologies may be loaded when you interact with a payment or checkout feature, while scheduling-related technologies may be used when you interact with our booking functionality.

Some cookies and similar technologies may be necessary for website features or third-party services to function securely and correctly.

These technologies may be used for purposes such as maintaining secure sessions, detecting suspicious or fraudulent activity, processing transactions, remembering information necessary to complete an action, or enabling an embedded service.

Because these technologies support functionality that you request, blocking them may prevent certain features of the website from working properly.

We use Stripe to process payments and provide payment-related functionality.

When you interact with Stripe-powered payment features, Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including payment processing, authentication, fraud prevention, security, and detecting potentially harmful or unauthorized activity.

Stripe may collect technical and transactional information relating to the device, browser, payment session, and transaction as necessary to provide its services and protect transactions against fraud.

The particular cookies and technologies used by Stripe may vary depending on the Stripe products and payment features involved.

Payment information and Stripe's use of cookies and personal information are also subject to Stripe's applicable privacy and cookie policies.

We use Cal.com to provide scheduling and booking functionality.

When you interact with a Cal.com scheduling feature, Cal.com may process information needed to provide the booking service, such as your name, email address, appointment details, booking responses, IP address, browser information, and related technical information.

Cal.com may use cookies or similar technologies where necessary to provide its product, maintain security, remember relevant preferences, or operate booking functionality.

Cal.com states that its product does not use third-party advertising cookies. Your use of Cal.com functionality is also subject to Cal.com's applicable privacy practices.

We use Resend as part of our email infrastructure to send transactional or other authorized communications.

Our use of Resend for email delivery does not, by itself, mean that Resend places cookies on your browser when you visit stircommunity.com.

Information submitted through our website may nevertheless be processed through our email systems when necessary to respond to inquiries, send confirmations, provide requested information, or operate our services. Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.

The Stir Community does not currently use cookies for targeted advertising, behavioural advertising, advertising profiling, or retargeting visitors across unrelated websites.

If we introduce advertising, behavioural analytics, or other non-essential tracking technologies in the future, we will update this Cookie Policy and implement additional notices or consent controls where required by applicable law.

Certain features of the website rely on third-party service providers. When you interact with those features, information may be transmitted directly to the applicable provider and that provider may use cookies or similar technologies under its own policies.

Third-party providers determine some aspects of how their technologies operate, including the specific cookies used, their duration, and the information collected. These practices may change independently of The Stir Community.

We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie information provided by Stripe, Cal.com, and any other third-party service you choose to interact with.

Most web browsers allow you to view, delete, or block cookies through your browser settings. You may also be able to configure your browser to notify you before certain cookies are stored.

Blocking or deleting cookies may affect website functionality. In particular, restricting technologies used for security, fraud prevention, payments, or scheduling may prevent those services from operating correctly.

Your browser or device may also provide privacy controls relating to cookies and similar technologies. Availability and behaviour of those controls depend on the browser, device, and third-party service involved.

Where consent is required under applicable privacy law, we will seek an appropriate form of consent having regard to the nature of the technology, the information involved, the purpose for which it is used, and your reasonable expectations.

Certain technologies may be integral to a service that you specifically request, such as completing a payment or using scheduling functionality. Other, non-essential technologies may require additional choices or consent depending on applicable law.

If we materially change the way we use cookies or introduce new categories of non-essential tracking technologies, we will update our disclosures and provide additional controls where required.

Some browsers and devices provide privacy signals or settings intended to communicate a user's tracking preferences.

Because there is not a single universally applied standard governing every browser privacy signal, our website and third-party providers may respond differently depending on the technology and applicable legal requirements.

We do not currently use behavioural advertising or advertising retargeting cookies on stircommunity.com.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time when our website, third-party services, technologies, or legal obligations change.

When we make changes, we will update the date displayed at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through additional notices where appropriate or required by law.

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how The Stir Community uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us using the contact information provided on stircommunity.com.