Cookie Policy for Freestore Foodbank

Last Updated: July 1, 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Freestore Foodbank (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, freestorefoodbank.org (the “Site”). By continuing to use our Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy.

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 more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

  • Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain on your device only for the duration of your Browse session and are deleted when you close your web browser.
  • Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a longer period or until you manually delete them, and they are used to remember your preferences or actions across multiple visits to a website.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for various purposes, including:

  1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our Site. They enable you to navigate the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or making donations. Without these cookies, certain services you have asked for cannot be provided.
    • Examples: Session cookies to maintain your login status, cookies for our donation processing system.
  2. Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Site, such as which pages are visited most often, and if they receive error messages from web pages. This helps us to improve how our Site works and to understand what our visitors are interested in. The information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
    • Examples: Google Analytics cookies to track website traffic and user behavior. (You’ll need to link to Google’s privacy policy for this).
  3. Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
    • Examples: Cookies remembering your preferred language settings, cookies to recall your previous donation preferences.
  4. Targeting/Advertising Cookies: We MAY use these cookies to deliver advertisements 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 campaign. They 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. This means that after you have been to our Site you may see some advertisements about our services elsewhere on the Internet.
    • Examples: Cookies from social media platforms (e.g., Facebook Pixel) for retargeting purposes, cookies from advertising partners like Google Ads.

Third-Party Cookies

We may also use third-party cookies on our Site. These cookies are set by a domain different from our Site and are used for various purposes, such as analytics or to enable certain functionalities. For example, when you use the donation form, our payment processor [GoFundMe Pro] may place cookies. We do not have direct control over these third-party cookies. We encourage you to review the cookie policies of these third parties for more information about their practices.

Your Cookie Choices

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can typically set your browser to:

  • Refuse all cookies: This will prevent any cookies from being placed on your device.
  • Accept only certain types of cookies: You can choose to accept only strictly necessary cookies, for example.
  • Notify you when a cookie is being sent: This allows you to decide whether to accept or reject the cookie on a case-by-case basis.

Please note that if you choose to block or delete cookies, some features of our Site may not function correctly or may become unavailable.

Here are links to instructions on how to manage cookies for common browsers:

You can also opt out of some third-party advertising cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) opt-out page at https://optout.aboutads.info/.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

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

  • By email: info@freestorefoodbank.org
  • By mail: Freestore Foodbank, 3401 Rosenthal Way, Cincinnati, OH 45204
  • By phone: (513) 482-4500