Cookie Policy

Effective Date: April 4, 2026  |  Last Updated: April 4, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to Dewey's Pizza. We operate the website pizza-deweys.rest (hereinafter referred to as "our Website," "we," "us," or "our"). This Cookie Policy is designed to help you understand what cookies are, how we use them, what choices you have regarding their use, and how they affect your experience when you visit our Website.

At Dewey's Pizza, we are committed to transparency and protecting your privacy in accordance with applicable United States federal and state laws, including the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) where applicable. This Cookie Policy forms part of our broader Privacy Policy and should be read in conjunction with it.

By accessing and using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you may adjust your browser settings or opt out using the tools described below.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device — such as your computer, smartphone, or tablet — when you visit a website. These files are stored in your web browser and allow the website (or third parties) to recognize your device and remember certain information about your visit, such as your preferences, login status, and browsing activity.

Cookies serve many purposes. They can make a website work more efficiently, improve your user experience, and provide website owners with valuable analytical data. Cookies do not typically contain personally identifiable information on their own, but when combined with other data, they may be used to identify you as an individual user.

In addition to traditional cookies, we may also use similar tracking technologies, including:

  • Web Beacons (Pixel Tags): Small invisible images embedded in web pages or emails that track whether you have opened an email or visited a specific page.
  • Local Storage: A browser feature that allows websites to store data locally on your device, functioning similarly to cookies but with greater storage capacity.
  • Session Storage: Temporary data storage that is cleared when you close your browser tab or window.
  • Fingerprinting: A method of collecting information about your device's configuration (browser type, screen resolution, operating system, etc.) to create a unique identifier.

Throughout this policy, we refer to all of these technologies collectively as "cookies."

3. How Do Cookies Work?

When you visit pizza-deweys.rest, our web server sends a cookie to your browser. Your browser stores the cookie file, and the next time you visit our Website, your browser sends the cookie back to our server. This process allows us to recognize your browser and remember your preferences or activities.

Cookies can be set either by us (referred to as "first-party cookies") or by third-party services that we use on our Website (referred to as "third-party cookies"). Third-party cookies are placed by external services such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, or social media platforms, and they may track your activity across multiple websites.

4. Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following categories of cookies on our Website:

4.1 Essential (Strictly Necessary) Cookies

These cookies are fundamental to the operation of our Website. Without them, core features such as navigation, secure browsing, and form submissions would not function properly. Essential cookies do not require your consent, as they are strictly necessary to provide the services you have requested. These cookies do not collect any personal information that could be used for marketing or to track your browsing activity across the internet.

4.2 Functional (Preference) Cookies

Functional cookies allow our Website to remember choices you have previously made — such as your preferred language, location, or display settings — and to provide enhanced, personalized features. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. Disabling functional cookies may affect the quality of your experience on our Website.

4.3 Analytics (Performance) Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These cookies track metrics such as the number of visitors, which pages are most visited, how long visitors spend on each page, and how they arrived at our Website. This information helps us improve the performance and content of our Website. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose.

4.4 Advertising (Targeting/Marketing) Cookies

Advertising cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers. We use Google Ads cookies for this purpose.

5. Specific Cookies We Use

The following table provides detailed information about the specific cookies used on pizza-deweys.rest:

Cookie Name Provider Purpose Type Duration
_session_id Dewey's Pizza Maintains your active session on the website, enabling secure navigation between pages and ensuring your cart and preferences are retained during your visit. Essential Session (deleted when browser is closed)
csrf_token Dewey's Pizza Provides Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection, securing form submissions and preventing unauthorized actions. Essential Session
cookie_consent Dewey's Pizza Stores your cookie consent preferences so that the cookie banner is not displayed on every page visit. Essential 12 months
user_preferences Dewey's Pizza Remembers your display preferences, such as your chosen location, preferred menu view, and other user settings. Functional 6 months
cart_data Dewey's Pizza Stores items you have added to your online order cart so that the cart contents are preserved if you navigate away or return to the site. Functional 24 hours
_ga Google Analytics This is the primary Google Analytics cookie. It registers a unique identifier that is used to generate statistical data on how you use the website. It is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. Analytics 2 years
_gid Google Analytics Registers a unique identifier used to generate statistical data on how you use our website. Unlike _ga, this cookie stores and updates a unique value for each page visited and expires after 24 hours. Analytics 24 hours
_gat Google Analytics Used by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate — specifically, to limit the number of requests made to Google's servers. This cookie helps control the speed of page request information collected by Google Analytics. Analytics 1 minute
_ga_[ID] Google Analytics (GA4) Used by Google Analytics 4 to persist session state and track user sessions across multiple visits. The [ID] portion corresponds to your specific Google Analytics 4 measurement ID. Analytics 2 years
_gcl_au Google Ads Used by Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords) to store and track conversions, ad clicks, and experiment data. This cookie helps Google Ads measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and enables conversion tracking for ads that have been clicked before visiting our website. Advertising 90 days
_fbp Facebook (Meta) Used by Facebook/Meta to deliver, measure, and improve the relevance of advertisements. This cookie helps identify browsers for the purposes of providing advertising and site analytics services. Advertising 90 days
fr Facebook (Meta) Facebook's primary advertising cookie, used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevance of ads. It contains a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. Advertising 90 days

6. Third-Party Cookies and Services

We use several third-party services that may place cookies on your device when you visit our Website. These third parties have their own independent privacy and cookie policies, which we encourage you to review:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and user behavior. Google may use the data collected through analytics cookies in accordance with its own privacy policy. For more information, visit Google's Privacy Policy.
  • Google Ads: We use Google Ads for online advertising campaigns. Google Ads cookies track the effectiveness of our advertisements. For more information, visit Google's Advertising Policies.
  • Facebook (Meta): We may use Facebook Pixel for advertising retargeting and campaign measurement. For more information, visit Facebook's Cookie Policy.

We do not control these third-party cookies. They are governed by the respective third parties' own policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party services.

7. How to Manage and Disable Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or decline cookies (with the exception of strictly necessary cookies). There are several ways you can manage your cookie preferences:

7.1 Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to refuse all cookies, delete cookies after each session, or alert you when a cookie is being set. Below are links to instructions for managing cookies in the most common browsers:

Please be aware that restricting cookies through your browser settings may affect your ability to use some features of our Website.

7.2 Opt-Out Tools for Specific Services

You can also opt out of specific third-party cookies using the following tools provided by the respective service providers:

  • Google Analytics Opt-Out: You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your visits by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
  • Google Ads Personalization: You can opt out of personalized Google advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings or by visiting aboutads.info.
  • Facebook (Meta) Ads Opt-Out: You can adjust your Facebook advertising preferences by visiting Facebook Ad Preferences.
  • Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): Use the NAI Opt-Out Tool to opt out of interest-based advertising from NAI member companies.
  • Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): Visit aboutads.info to opt out of interest-based advertising from DAA participating companies.
  • Your Privacy Choices (US State Laws): If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information, which may include certain cookie-based data sharing activities. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for more details.

7.3 Mobile Device Settings

If you access our Website through a mobile device, you can control interest-based advertising through your mobile device settings:

  • iOS (iPhone/iPad): Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and disable "Allow Apps to Request to Track."
  • Android: Go to Settings > Google > Ads, and enable "Opt out of Ads Personalization."

8. Impact of Disabling Cookies

While you have the right to disable or restrict cookies, please be aware that doing so may have a significant impact on your experience when using pizza-deweys.rest. The following outlines the potential consequences of disabling each category of cookies:

Cookie Type Impact of Disabling
Essential Cookies The Website may not function properly or at all. Features such as secure login, form submissions, and shopping cart functionality will be unavailable or unreliable. We strongly recommend keeping essential cookies enabled.
Functional Cookies Your personal preferences (such as preferred location, saved menu items, and display settings) will not be remembered between visits. You may need to re-enter your preferences each time you visit our Website.
Analytics Cookies We will not be able to collect data about how you and other users interact with our Website. This means we will have limited ability to identify and fix issues, measure our Website's performance, or improve your experience over time.
Advertising Cookies You will still see advertisements, but they will be less relevant to your interests. Disabling advertising cookies does not mean you will stop seeing ads — it simply means the ads you see may be less tailored to you personally.

9. Your Rights Under U.S. Law

Depending on your state of residence within the United States, you may have specific rights relating to your personal data collected through cookies and tracking technologies. These rights may include:

  • Right to Know: The right to know what personal information is being collected about you through cookies and how it is used.
  • Right to Delete: The right to request the deletion of personal information collected through cookies.
  • Right to Opt-Out: The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information collected through tracking technologies, including targeted advertising cookies.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: The right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
  • Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Under the CPRA, California residents have the right to limit the use of sensitive personal information.

If you are a California resident, you may exercise your rights under the CCPA/CPRA by contacting us using the details provided in Section 11 below. We will respond to verified requests within the timeframes required by applicable law.

Residents of other states with applicable privacy laws — including Virginia (VCDPA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), and Utah (UCPA) — may also have similar rights. We are committed to honoring applicable data privacy rights for all of our users.

10. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Cookie Policy at any time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, changes in applicable laws or regulations, or updates to our business practices. When we make material changes to this policy, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you through a prominent notice on our Website or by other means.

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies. Your continued use of pizza-deweys.rest after any changes to this Cookie Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and tracking technologies, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Dewey's Pizza

We aim to respond to all legitimate inquiries within a reasonable timeframe. If you are a California resident submitting a request under the CCPA/CPRA, please clearly indicate this in your message so we can process your request appropriately.