Cookie Policy
Effective date: 03.07.2026
1.Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how SMOKY MOUNTAINS CREPERIE (“we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit www.smokymountains.com
We use cookies and similar technologies to keep our website working properly, remember your cookie preferences, understand how visitors use our website, improve the user experience, and support advertising or marketing features only where allowed by your cookie choices.
2.What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies, such as tracking pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, and local storage, may also be used to collect or store information about your interaction with our website.
3. How Our Cookie System Works
When you visit our website, you may see a cookie banner that allows you to:
- Accept cookies;
- Decline optional cookies;
- Open Preferences and chose which cookie; categories you allow;
Our cookie system includes the following categories:
- Required cookies;
- Preferences / Personalization cookies;
- Analytics cookies;
- Marketing cookies.
Required cookies are always active because they are necessary for the website to function properly. Optional cookies, including Preferences / Personalization, Analytics, and Marketing cookies, are used only based on your choices.
- If you click “Accept,” all optional cookie categories may be enabled.
- If you click “Decline,” optional cookies are refused for the current session.
- If you open “Preferences,” you can choose which optional categories you want to allow.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies We Use
4.1 Required Cookies
Required cookies are necessary for the website to work correctly. We use these cookies to:
- Keep the website stable and secure;
- Enable basic website functions;
- Support page navigation;
- Support forms and essential website features;
- Remember your cookie consent choice.
Required cookies cannot be disabled through our cookie banner because the website needs them to operate properly.
4.2 Preferences / Personalization Cookies
- Preferences / Personalization cookies help us remember your choices and make your next visit smoother and more tailored to you.
- These cookies may be used to remember settings, preferences, or choices you make on our website.
- You can allow or disable these cookies through the Preferences section of our cookie banner.
4.3 Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website and what we can improve. We use Google Analytics only if Analytics cookies are accepted.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages visited;
- Time spent on the website;
- Device and browser information;
- Approximate geographic location;
- Traffic sources;
- Clicks and interactions;
- Website performance data.
This information helps us understand how our website is used and how we can improve our content, layout, performance, and services. If Analytics cookies are not accepted, Google Analytics is not loaded through our cookie system.
4.4 Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies help us measure advertising performance, understand how visitors interact with our website, and support more relevant marketing. We use Marketing cookies only if Marketing cookies are accepted.
Our website may use the following marketing technologies:
- Meta Pixel, also known as Facebook Pixel, to measure advertising performance, understand website interactions, create audiences, and support personalized advertising on Meta platforms.
- TikTok Pixel to measure campaign performance, understand website activity, optimize advertising, and create audiences for marketing purposes.
If Marketing cookies are not accepted, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel are not loaded through our cookie system.
5. Information That May Be Collected
Depending on your cookie choices and how you interact with our website, cookies and similar technologies may collect information such as:
- IP address;
- Browser type;
- Device information;
- Operating system;
- Pages viewed;
- Referring website;
- Date and time of visit;
- Clicks and interactions;
- Cookie identifiers;
- Advertising identifiers;
- Conversion events;
- Approximate location;
- Traffic source information.
6. Third-Party Services
Our website may use third-party services connected to analytics and marketing, including:
- Google Analytics;
- Meta Platforms;
- TikTok.
These third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
These services are loaded through our cookie system only when the relevant cookie category has been accepted, unless the technology is strictly necessary for the operation of the website.
7. Targeted Advertising, Sale, and Sharing Notice for U.S. Users
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money.
However, under certain U.S. state privacy laws, the use of advertising pixels, cookies, analytics tools, or similar tracking technologies may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or processing of personal information for “targeted advertising” or “cross-context behavioral advertising.”
Where required by applicable U.S. privacy laws, eligible users may have the right to opt out of:
- The sale of personal information;
- The sharing of personal information;
- Targeted advertising;
- Cross-context behavioral advertising;
- Certain profiling activities.
You can control optional Analytics and Marketing cookies through our cookie banner. You may also contact us using the details below to exercise applicable privacy rights.
8. Your Cookie Choices
You can manage your cookie choices directly through our cookie banner.
You can:
- Click “Accept” to allow all optional cookie categories;
- Click “Decline” to refuse optional cookies for the current session;
- Click “Preferences” to choose which optional categories you want to allow.
You can also manage or disable cookies through your browser settings at any time. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.
You may also manage advertising preferences through the privacy settings provided by Google, Meta, and TikTok.
9. U.S. State Privacy Rights
Depending on your U.S. state of residence, you may have additional privacy rights, including the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share;
- Request access to your personal information;
- Request deletion of your personal information;
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information;
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information;
- Opt out of targeted advertising;
Limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information, where applicable; Appeal a decision regarding your privacy request, where required by law.
These rights may apply to residents of states with consumer privacy laws, including California and other applicable U.S. states.
10. Global Privacy Control and Opt-Out Preference Signals
Where required by applicable law, we will honor valid opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or targeted advertising.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through cookies or tracking technologies.
12. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes become effective when the updated Cookie Policy is posted on this page.
13. Changes to This Cookie Policy
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us at:
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