Cookie Policy
Last Updated: September 2, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Gladley’s® Candy Kitchen, operated by Gladley’s LLC (“Gladley’s,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.gladleys.com.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer, mobile device, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies and similar technologies can help websites function properly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use a website, improve the customer experience, and support analytics and marketing.
Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, and other technologies that collect or store information about your interaction with a website.
2. How Gladley’s Uses Cookies
Our online store is powered by Shopify. Gladley’s, Shopify, and applicable service providers may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with our website.
Depending on their purpose, these technologies may help us:
· Operate our website and online store;
· Maintain shopping-cart and checkout functionality;
· Process orders and transactions;
· Maintain website and account security;
· Remember customer choices and preferences;
· Understand how visitors use our website;
· Measure website and marketing performance;
· Personalize aspects of the customer experience;
· Support marketing and advertising; and
· Remember your privacy and cookie preferences.
3. Types of Cookies and Similar Technologies
The cookies and similar technologies used through our website may fall into the following categories:
Required
Required cookies and technologies are necessary for important website functions such as navigation, security, customer accounts, shopping carts, checkout, transactions, and remembering privacy preferences.
Because these technologies are necessary for the website to function properly, they cannot be disabled through our Cookie Preferences control.
Personalization
Personalization cookies and technologies may remember information about your interactions with our website and help provide a more personalized experience.
Where applicable, you may choose whether to allow these technologies through our Cookie Preferences control.
Marketing
Marketing cookies and technologies may be used by Gladley’s and our partners, including Shopify, to understand the effectiveness of marketing, personalize marketing communications, and provide advertising that may be more relevant to you, including advertising on other websites.
Where applicable, you may choose whether to allow these technologies through our Cookie Preferences control.
Analytics
Analytics cookies and technologies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, such as how customers navigate the site and which features or pages are used. This information can help us evaluate website performance and improve the customer experience.
Where applicable, you may choose whether to allow these technologies through our Cookie Preferences control.
4. Shopify
Gladley’s uses Shopify to operate our online store. Shopify places certain cookies on merchant storefronts, including cookies necessary for functions such as shopping carts, checkout, localization, security, and storing customer privacy preferences.
Shopify may also use cookies and similar technologies for analytics and other purposes depending upon the services enabled on our store and your applicable privacy choices.
Gladley’s has enabled Shopify Network Intelligence, which allows Shopify to use certain customer information together with information from interactions with Shopify and other Shopify merchants to provide enhanced services, including services related to personalization, store functionality, and marketing.
Where applicable, choices you make through Gladley’s Cookie Preferences and data-sharing opt-out controls are communicated to Shopify and affect how information from your interaction with our store may be used by Shopify Network Intelligence.
For additional information about Shopify’s use of cookies and other technologies, please review Shopify’s Cookie Policy and Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy.
5. Your Cookie Choices
Where available, Gladley’s provides a Cookie Preferences control that allows you to manage certain cookies and similar technologies used through our website.
Depending upon the options available to you, you may be able to:
· Accept optional cookies;
· Decline optional cookies; or
· Make individual choices regarding Personalization, Marketing, and Analytics technologies.
Required cookies remain active because they are necessary for essential website functionality.
You can revisit your Cookie Preferences and change your choices when the applicable preference control is available on our website.
6. Data Sharing and Advertising Choices
Depending upon applicable law and your location, Gladley’s may also provide a Data Sharing Opt-Out or similar privacy-choice mechanism through Shopify.
This mechanism may allow eligible visitors to opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information for targeted advertising or other activities that may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under applicable privacy laws.
Where required or supported, Shopify may also recognize certain browser-based privacy signals, such as Global Privacy Control (GPC).
For additional information about these choices and your privacy rights, please review our Privacy Policy.
7. Browser Controls
Most internet browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through browser settings.
You may be able to configure your browser to block cookies, notify you when cookies are being placed, or delete cookies that have already been stored.
Please be aware that blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect website functionality. For example, some features involving shopping carts, checkout, customer accounts, preferences, or other website functions may not work properly if required cookies are blocked.
Browser controls operate separately from the Cookie Preferences provided through our website.
8. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Some cookies are session cookies, which generally remain only for the duration of your browsing session.
Others are persistent cookies, which may remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.
The length of time a particular cookie remains on your device varies depending upon its purpose and the service that places it.
9. Third-Party Services
Certain services used in connection with our website may place or use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy practices.
The third-party services used by Gladley’s may change as we update our website and business operations.
Where required, optional cookies and similar technologies are subject to applicable consent and privacy-choice mechanisms.
10. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, technology, services, privacy practices, or applicable legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date at the top of this policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or Gladley’s privacy practices, please contact us:
Gladley’s Candy Kitchen
Operated by Gladley’s LLC
356 Main Street
Laurel, Maryland 20707
United States
Privacy and Customer Support: support@gladleys.com
Website: www.gladleys.com