COOKIE POLICY.

Visitors detected in Switzerland are not shown an automatic cookie prompt. Optional analytics and advertising remain off unless you enable them in Cookie settings in the footer. Existing choices are still respected. Elsewhere, or if the connection country cannot be determined, a compact prompt appears after about eight seconds.

Choose “Essential only” to decline optional analytics and advertising, or “Allow all” to enable both. Open “Settings” to choose “Analytics only”, which links visits and purchases without advertising, and for anonymous-statistics controls and further information. Closing the prompt, scrolling and changing the delivery country do not grant permission. You can change or withdraw your choice from the footer at any time.

Our host supplies the connection country for this display decision; it is not your selected delivery country. This check sets no tracking cookie or location history. Anonymous visit totals remain separate, with an objection control under “Anonymous statistics”. Your deliberate consent choices are passed to Shopify checkout.

• gorped-consent-v1: remembers your analytics choice for 6 months.
• gorped-statistics: remembers your separate anonymous-statistics preference for 6 months when you change it.
• gorped-design-cart: local storage for the cart you build. It remains until replaced or cleared.
• gorped-country and gorped-theme: local storage for the country or appearance you choose. These remain until changed or cleared.
• Shopify checkout, consent and security storage: supports payment, cart continuity, privacy choices and fraud prevention. Names and durations can vary with the checkout feature; see Shopify’s cookie list.

These functions do not depend on optional analytics permission. Blocking all browser storage can prevent the cart or checkout from working correctly.

• _shopify_y: a Shopify analytics visitor identifier, generally retained for up to 1 year.
• _shopify_s: a Shopify analytics session identifier, generally retained for 30 minutes.
• gorped-attribution-v1: our local-storage record for consented visit and campaign attribution, with a 30-day lifetime. It includes a random browser identifier, first and recent source and landing page. The related analytics service can calculate an observed visit sequence.

We use these to measure visits, cart activity and purchases, including the visit during which a purchase occurs within the measurement window. They are not needed to place an order. Our Privacy policy explains the related server records and retention.

A separate first-party counter measures visit, page-view, cart, checkout-start and internal-blog-click totals without a tracking cookie or persistent visitor ID. It does not match a visit to a customer or order, apart from the page-version note on orders during a page comparison. Totals can be grouped by page, broad source, country and device category.

While a Strider page comparison runs, the local-storage entry gorped-strider-page keeps the page design shown to this browser, when it was chosen and which anonymous totals (first view, cart addition, checkout start) it has already been counted in, so returning visits see the same design and are not counted twice. It holds no identifier, lasts until the comparison ends and at most about 13 months, and is removed when you switch off anonymous statistics. A checkout within seven days of the first view adds the page version and that day to the order, so paid orders can be counted per design.

You can object to this measurement in Cookie settings by switching off “Anonymous statistics”. This control is separate from analytics-cookie permission. Declining optional analytics does not by itself turn off these aggregate counters. A short-lived network key used to prevent abuse is not used for identifying returning visitors.

Open “Cookie settings” in the footer at any time. Choose “Essential only” to stop future optional analytics and advertising. “Analytics only” permits measurement without advertising; “Allow all” also permits the advertising described below. You can also change anonymous-statistics measurement there.

The choice applies to this browser and the GORPED checkout on the same root domain. Use the controls again on another browser or device. If you clear storage or the preference expires, we ask again. We clear our browser attribution record when you reject analytics; the decision does not automatically delete previously collected server records.

Browser privacy signals such as Global Privacy Control do not authorise tracking. “Analytics only” sends marketing and advertising data-sharing permission as off; “Allow all” also permits the advertising described below. Shopify Network Intelligence is enabled for the commerce platform; see Shopify & enhanced services for its separate processing and additional opt-out controls.

Contact office@gorped.com or write to Saftladen GmbH, Birkenstrasse 47, 6343 Risch-Rotkreuz, Switzerland. Read our Privacy policy for information about the controller, providers and your rights.

Updated 18 September 2026. Declining optional cookies stops optional browser attribution and advertising pixels. Separate first-party counters continue to measure visits, page views, product views, successful cart additions, checkout handoffs and clicks from our articles to the shop. Separate totals compare the displayed light or dark theme and active viewing time while a page is visible, pausing after 60 seconds without interaction. Active time on site combines public pages in the same tab; a new measured visit begins after 30 minutes without interaction, on reload or in a new tab. They are on by default and include visitors who decline optional cookies. You can switch these counters off under “Anonymous statistics” in Cookie settings.

These requests omit cookies and referrers. They contain a public page path and a fixed counter type; theme activity can include light or dark, page/visit-start flags and whole seconds, without timestamps or identifiers; entry counts can also include a broad source and medium. We save daily totals, including broad country and device categories, with no visitor identifier, persistent browser storage, browsing-history record or link to an individual order. A rotating network hash is used only for abuse protection and expires after 60 seconds. Aggregate totals expire after 400 days.

Paid-order totals come separately from Shopify to operate the shop and measure sales. Dividing these orders by estimated visits gives an approximate purchase rate. It does not identify who bought, how many visits preceded a purchase, or which anonymous visit led to an order. Repeat-visit attribution and the theme conversion experiment still require analytics permission.

With analytics permission, eligible browsers are assigned at random to a light or dark default so we can compare completed purchases within seven days. We use the existing consented GORPED browser identifier; no experiment identifier is added for visitors who decline analytics. A saved theme preference is respected, and you can still switch theme. Purchases are grouped by original assignment even after a switch.

The assignment is stored with gorped-attribution-v1 in local storage. Enrollment renews its expiry to 30 days from assignment so returning visits stay in the same group. Pseudonymous experiment records expire after 90 days and aggregate results after 400 days. Withdrawing analytics permission removes the stored assignment and stops new experiment events; previously recorded aggregates remain. Anonymous theme-usage and viewing-time totals are separate from this test. They reflect the displayed theme and do not link a view to a customer or order.

While a Strider page comparison runs, visitors of the Strider page see one of two page designs and keep it on returning visits. Every visitor takes part in the same way, whether or not they allow analytics, unless they have switched off “Anonymous statistics”: the browser is assigned a design at random and keeps only that version in the local-storage entry gorped-strider-page, without any identifier. Per design and without identifiers, we count each browser’s first view of its design, any cart addition and checkout start within the following seven days, and paid orders whose checkout carried the page-version note (the design and the day of the first view). Orders may include other GORPED products.

Your analytics permission is not used for this comparison and does not change it. Switching off anonymous statistics removes the stored page version and shows the current page. Preview visits, staff browsers and automated visitors are excluded. The comparison does not add an advertising service. Aggregate results are kept for up to 400 days.

Updated 23 September 2026. We also use Vercel Web Analytics for aggregate visitor and page-view statistics, traffic sources, country, device and browser information. It uses no tracking cookies; Vercel derives a temporary visitor hash from incoming requests and discards the visitor session after 24 hours. We do not connect this measurement to customer accounts or orders.

We exclude private, order-tracking and withdrawal pages and remove URL parameters other than validated campaign tags. Form contents are not sent. This measurement uses the same “Anonymous statistics” opt-out in Cookie settings and stops when you switch it off. It does not enable advertising pixels. See Vercel’s analytics privacy information.

Updated 10 September 2026. Saftladen GmbH uses the Meta Pixel (Facebook and Instagram) on gorped.com only after you choose “Allow all”. “Analytics only” does not authorise advertising. “Essential only” declines optional analytics and advertising. A previous analytics-only choice is not treated as permission for Meta.

With advertising permission, Meta receives public page and product views, cart actions, product identifiers, prices and currencies, event identifiers, browser and connection information such as IP address, and advertising click/cookie identifiers. These are used to measure advertising, attribute conversions and personalise ads. The storefront does not send review text, order-lookup entries or form contents to Meta.

Our Shopify Facebook & Instagram integration also uses the Meta Pixel, advanced matching and Conversions API for checkout and purchase measurement. With permission, Shopify can share order and customer matching information, including name, email, phone and location, with Meta. This can link an event to a Meta account. Hashing matching information does not make it anonymous. The data may be processed outside Switzerland and the EEA, including in the United States, under the applicable provider transfer arrangements.

The GDPR basis for this optional tracking is consent. Advertising sharing can qualify as “sale”, “sharing” or targeted advertising under applicable US privacy laws. Global Privacy Control disables advertising on our storefront, even if an earlier choice permitted it. Open Cookie settings in the footer and select “Analytics only” or “Essential only” to withdraw advertising permission. We stop new storefront advertising events and pass the choice to Shopify checkout. You can also use the Shopify privacy form for account-related opt-outs. Withdrawal does not erase previously collected records.

The essential gorped-consent-v2 cookie remembers the separate choices for six months. Meta may set _fbp and _fbc browser identifiers, generally for up to 90 days; browser restrictions may shorten this. Meta controls retention of received information according to its policies. See Meta’s Privacy Policy, Meta’s Cookie Policy and Shopify’s Privacy Policy. For a privacy request, contact office@gorped.com.