Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Trattoria del Sole ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, trattoriadelsole.com (the "Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies allow a website to recognize a user's device and store some information about the user's preferences or past actions.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you have closed your browser and are used to remember your settings and preferences on future visits. Session cookies expire when you close your browser and are used to track your activity during a single browsing session.
How We Use Cookies
At Trattoria del Sole, we use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
- Essential Website Functionality: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly and to enable you to use its features, such as navigating between pages and accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance and Analytics: We use cookies to collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users get error messages from web pages. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, ensuring users are finding what they are looking for easily. For example, we use Google Analytics to track Website usage and trends.
- Functionality: These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, we may use a cookie to remember your preferred language so you don't have to select it again on subsequent visits.
- Marketing and Advertising: We may use cookies to deliver targeted advertisements to you based on your interests and online behavior. These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns.
- User Authentication: When you log into your account on our website, we use cookies to authenticate your identity and maintain your session. This allows you to access your profile and make reservations without having to re-enter your credentials each time you visit a new page.
Types of Cookies We Use
The specific types of cookies we may use on our Website fall into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to browse the Website and use its features.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our Website. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- Third-Party Cookies: We use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, that set their own cookies on our Website. We do not control these cookies and you should check the relevant third party's website for more information about their cookie policy.
Here is a table summarizing the types of cookies used on trattoriadelsole.com:
Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
---|---|---|---|
PHPSESSID | Maintains user session | Strictly Necessary | Session |
_ga | Tracks website traffic and user behavior | Performance | 2 years |
_gid | Distinguishes users | Performance | 24 hours |
language_preference | Remembers user's language selection | Functionality | 1 year |
ad_targeting | Delivers targeted advertising | Targeting | 3 months |
Managing Cookies
You have several options for managing cookies. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Website may be limited.
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these settings in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. You can typically configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only certain cookies, or prompt you before accepting a cookie from a website.
- Cookie Consent Tools: Some websites use cookie consent tools that allow you to customize your cookie preferences. These tools typically provide a list of cookies used on the site and allow you to opt in or out of specific categories of cookies.
- Third-Party Opt-Outs: You can opt out of certain third-party cookies by visiting the websites of the providers of those cookies. For example, you can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Here are links to instructions on how to manage cookies in some of the most popular web browsers:
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. The date of the latest revision will be indicated at the top of this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Trattoria del Sole
123 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (415) 555-1212
This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 26, 2025.