Cookie Policy

Last Updated: September 24, 2026

Church in Miniature (“Church in Miniature,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on churchinminiature.com to operate our website and online store, maintain shopping carts and customer sessions, process purchases, provide security, understand how visitors use our website, support email and marketing activities, and improve the overall user experience.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, why we use them, the types of technologies that may be used on our website, and the choices available to you.

What Are Cookies?

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

Cookies may allow a website to remember information about your visit, maintain your shopping cart, keep you logged in, remember certain preferences, measure website usage, or support security and payment functions.

Some cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a specified period of time or until you delete them.

We may also use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, web beacons, browser storage, session storage, and other tracking technologies. WooCommerce notes that websites and HTML emails may use technologies such as web beacons or pixels in addition to traditional cookies.

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies help our website and online store function properly.

These cookies may be used for:

• Shopping carts
• Checkout
• Customer sessions
• Customer accounts
• Login functionality
• Order processing
• Payment processing
• Fraud prevention
• Security
• Subscription functionality
• Remembering whether certain site notices have been dismissed
• Maintaining essential store functions

Because these cookies are necessary for important website functions, blocking them may prevent portions of the website from working correctly.

2. WooCommerce Cookies

We use WooCommerce to operate our online store.

WooCommerce uses cookies to maintain shopping-cart information and customer sessions. WooCommerce documents cookies including:

• woocommerce_cart_hash
• woocommerce_items_in_cart
• wp_woocommerce_session_

The first two help WooCommerce determine when cart contents change, while the session cookie allows WooCommerce to locate the appropriate customer’s cart data.

Additional WooCommerce cookies may be used depending on the store features we enable.

3. FunnelKit Cookies

We use FunnelKit to support portions of our shopping-cart, checkout, and sales-funnel experience.

Depending on the features enabled, FunnelKit may use essential, analytics, marketing, and testing cookies.

Examples documented by FunnelKit include:

• fkcart_qty
• fkcart_total
• wffn_si
• wffn_timezone
• wffn_browser
• wffn_referrer
• wffn_traffic_source
• wffn_gclid
• UTM-related cookies when applicable

FunnelKit states that some of these cookies are used for essential cart or funnel functionality, while others can be used for analytics, traffic attribution, or marketing measurement.

4. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• Number of visitors
• Sessions
• Pages viewed
• Approximate geographic location
• Browser type
• Device type
• Referral information
• Website interactions
• General usage patterns

Google states that its default Analytics implementation stores a client identifier in a first-party cookie named _ga to distinguish users and sessions when analytics storage is permitted.

Depending on our configuration, additional Google Analytics cookies or identifiers may also be used.

Where required, analytics technologies may be controlled through a cookie-consent mechanism.

5. Google Site Kit

We use Site Kit by Google to connect and manage certain Google services within WordPress, including Google Analytics and potentially other Google products.

Site Kit itself acts as an integration layer, while the connected Google services may use cookies and collect information according to their respective configurations.

Google states that website owners using Site Kit remain responsible for providing appropriate notice and managing applicable consent requirements.

Site Kit may also allow us to connect services such as:

• Google Analytics
• Search Console
• PageSpeed Insights
• Tag Manager
• Other Google services when enabled

6. MonsterInsights

We use MonsterInsights to connect our WordPress website with Google Analytics and help us understand website traffic and visitor activity.

MonsterInsights may facilitate the collection of Google Analytics information and display that information within our WordPress administration area.

MonsterInsights states that its Google Analytics integration uses the Google Analytics Reporting API to retrieve website analytics and present that information within WordPress.

Cookies used for this purpose generally arise from the configured Google Analytics implementation rather than simply from the presence of the MonsterInsights plugin.

7. Email Marketing and Sender.net

We use Sender.net for email marketing, subscriber communications, newsletters, and related marketing functions.

When you subscribe to our mailing list, interact with marketing forms, or engage with our emails, Sender.net or related technologies may process information associated with those activities.

Sender states that its services use cookie technology and may process information in connection with website use and email marketing services.

Depending on our configuration, email-marketing technologies may be used to understand whether subscribers:

• Open an email
• Click a link
• Visit certain website pages
• Complete an action after receiving an email
• Interact with a signup or marketing form

Where required by law, marketing-related technologies will be subject to appropriate consent choices.

8. Payment Processing

We use third-party payment processors such as Stripe and PayPal to process customer payments.

These providers may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:

• Processing payments
• Authenticating transactions
• Preventing fraud
• Maintaining security
• Remembering payment-related settings
• Meeting regulatory requirements

PayPal states that it and its service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies in connection with its services.

Payment-related cookies may be placed directly by the applicable payment provider and are also subject to that provider’s privacy and cookie policies.

Church in Miniature does not use cookies to store complete credit-card numbers on our website.

9. Security Cookies

We use security tools, including Wordfence Security, to help protect our website from unauthorized access, malicious activity, fraud, bots, and other threats.

Security technologies may use cookies or similar mechanisms to:

• Identify legitimate users
• Prevent unauthorized access
• Protect login areas
• Detect suspicious behavior
• Apply security rules
• Help prevent fraud or abuse

Security cookies may be considered necessary for the safe operation of the website.

10. Wishlist Cookies and Browser Storage

We may provide wishlist functionality through WPC Smart Wishlist for WooCommerce.

Wishlist features may use cookies, browser storage, or similar technologies to remember products a visitor has saved.

This allows a wishlist to remain available while browsing or, depending on configuration, when returning to the website.

11. Subscription Cookies

We may offer recurring purchases or subscription products using Sublium Subscriptions for WooCommerce.

Cookies or session technologies may be used to support:

• Subscription purchases
• Customer accounts
• Checkout
• Session management
• Subscription administration

12. Gift Card Functionality

Our website may offer gift cards through PW WooCommerce Gift Cards.

Cookies or session technologies associated with WooCommerce may help maintain gift-card selections, carts, checkout sessions, and purchases.

13. Forms

We use website forms, including forms created through MetForm or similar technologies, for purposes such as:

• Contact requests
• Customer-service inquiries
• Order questions
• Product inquiries
• Newsletter signups
• Vendor inquiries

Cookies or similar technologies may be used to support form functionality, prevent spam, maintain sessions, or remember certain form-related information.

Information you voluntarily submit through a form is governed by our Privacy Policy.

14. Affiliate Tracking

Church in Miniature may participate in affiliate programs.

When you click an affiliate link, an affiliate network, retailer, or other third party may use cookies or similar technologies to identify that you were referred by Church in Miniature.

This allows the applicable company to determine whether Church in Miniature should receive a commission when a qualifying purchase or action occurs.

We may use Pretty Links or similar tools to organize or manage certain links on our website. A link-management plugin does not necessarily create a tracking cookie on its own, but the third-party destination or affiliate program may use cookies after the link is clicked.

Affiliate cookies and tracking technologies are governed by the applicable third party’s policies.

15. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

We may use marketing cookies or similar technologies to:

• Measure advertising effectiveness
• Understand where visitors came from
• Attribute sales or conversions
• Measure marketing campaigns
• Understand interactions with promotional content
• Provide more relevant advertising

These may include technologies associated with Google, affiliate networks, email-marketing platforms, or other advertising services we enable.

Where legally required, these technologies will be activated only after the appropriate consent has been obtained.

16. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help improve the convenience of the website.

They may remember things such as:

• Wishlist items
• Site preferences
• Recently viewed products
• Dismissed notices
• Cart settings
• Display preferences

Blocking functional cookies may cause certain convenience features to stop working.

17. Rank Math SEO

We use Rank Math SEO to manage search-engine optimization and website metadata.

Rank Math primarily operates within WordPress to help us manage items such as:

• Search-engine metadata
• Sitemaps
• Structured data
• Search optimization
• Website indexing settings

Rank Math being active does not necessarily mean it places cookies on every website visitor.

If optional Rank Math functionality or connected third-party services collect information or use cookies, those technologies may be addressed under the appropriate analytics, functional, or third-party sections of this policy.

18. WP Mail SMTP

We use WP Mail SMTP to help reliably deliver emails generated by our WordPress website.

This may include:

• Order emails
• Password-reset emails
• Account notifications
• Contact-form notifications
• Administrative emails

WP Mail SMTP primarily handles email delivery rather than visitor tracking.

The WP Mail SMTP provider itself states that usage tracking can collect certain information regarding a site’s WordPress/plugin environment when that feature is enabled.

Any external email provider used to deliver website messages may process information necessary to transmit those emails.

19. Website Performance and Caching

We use LiteSpeed Cache to help improve website speed and performance.

Caching technologies may store temporary information or use browser-related technologies to improve loading times and deliver website content efficiently.

Certain optimization features may interact with cookies used by WooCommerce or other plugins to ensure that individualized information such as shopping carts is displayed correctly.

20. Embedded or Third-Party Content

Some pages may contain content or services supplied by third parties.

Examples may include:

• Videos
• Social-media content
• Payment services
• Maps
• Forms
• Affiliate products
• External shopping services
• Other embedded tools

These providers may place their own cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with their content.

We do not directly control cookies placed by independent third-party services.

Cookie Consent

Where required by applicable law, we may provide a cookie banner or consent-management tool that allows visitors to:

• Accept cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Choose specific cookie categories
• Change cookie preferences later

Google’s Consent Mode can adjust the behavior of Google Analytics and advertising tags according to the user’s consent choices. Google explains that basic Consent Mode can prevent Google tags from loading until a visitor makes a consent choice.

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for the website, shopping cart, checkout, security, or other essential functions to operate.

Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most internet browsers allow you to manage cookies through browser settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View cookies
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Prevent websites from storing cookies
• Receive notices when a website attempts to store a cookie

Please understand that disabling necessary cookies may prevent parts of Church in Miniature from functioning correctly.

For example, disabling cookies could interfere with:

• Shopping carts
• Checkout
• Customer accounts
• Login
• Wishlists
• Payment processing
• Subscription management

How Long Cookies Remain

Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies generally expire when your browser session ends.

Persistent cookies remain for a predetermined amount of time or until you manually delete them.

Cookie durations depend on the technology and service involved.

For example, WooCommerce documents its standard customer-session cookie as lasting approximately two days, while its cart-change cookies generally operate for the browsing session.

FunnelKit documents different durations depending on the cookie, including 30-minute cart cookies, 24-hour funnel-session cookies, and other cookies lasting approximately two days or longer depending on their purpose.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect:

• Changes to our website
• New plugins or technologies
• Changes to third-party services
• New ecommerce functionality
• Changes in privacy laws or regulations

When we make changes, the revised policy will be posted on this page and the “Last Updated” date will be updated.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or your privacy rights, please contact us:

Church in Miniature
Website: churchinminiature.com
Email: support@churchinminiature.com