Technical Transparency

Cookie Policy

Understanding Our Technology

Authentic Beauty Code uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience, maintain your session-monitored shopping cart, and analyze our traffic. This policy provides detailed information about how and why we use these technologies.

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the core functionality of our store. They enable basic features like:

  • Session Management: Maintaining your items in the cart as you navigate between different products in the HiShine Collection.
  • Security: Protecting against cross-site request forgery and ensuring your checkout session is secure.
  • Load Balancing: Ensuring the website remains responsive during high-traffic periods.

2. Performance & Analytics

We use these to gather anonymous data about how visitors use our site. This helps us understand:

  • Which pages are most popular among our community.
  • If users encounter errors or slow loading times.
  • The general geographic distribution of our traffic (e.g., major South African cities vs international).

3. Personalisation & Preferences

These cookies allow us to remember your specific settings to make your next visit faster. This includes:

  • Preferred language or currency settings.
  • Recently viewed products to help you find your favourite shades quickly.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In some cases, we use cookies provided by trusted third parties. This includes our payment partners (Payfast) to ensure secure transactions and analytics providers to help us improve the site experience. We do not allow these third parties to use this data for their own marketing purposes.

5. Managing Your Preferences

You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings. However, please be aware that disabling essential cookies will significantly impact your ability to use the store. You will not be able to add items to your cart or complete a purchase if session-based cookies are blocked.

Questions About Our Tech?

If you have technical questions regarding our use of cookies or session monitoring, our team is ready to help.

admin@cosakgroup.co.za