Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 3 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how WPBay, operated by CODE IKIGAI SRL (“WPBay”, “we”, “us” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use https://wpbay.com.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we process personal data more generally.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files or pieces of information stored on or accessed from your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can perform different functions. For example, they can keep you logged in, remember items in a shopping cart, store preferences, protect accounts against abuse, measure website performance or help understand how visitors use a website.

Cookies may be:

Session cookies, which normally expire when you close your browser; or

Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until their specified expiry date or until you delete them.

Cookies may also be:

First-party cookies, placed or accessed by WPBay; or

Third-party cookies, placed or accessed by another service integrated with WPBay.

Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, SDKs and other device-storage or tracking technologies, may be used for similar purposes. References to “cookies” in this policy generally include these technologies where applicable.

2. Legal Basis for Using Cookies

WPBay operates from Romania and is subject to applicable Romanian and European Union privacy and electronic-communications laws, including the GDPR and Romanian Law no. 506/2004 on the processing of personal data and protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector.

We may store or access information on your device without consent where this is strictly necessary:

• to transmit a communication through an electronic communications network; or
• to provide a service that you have expressly requested.

For cookies and similar technologies that are not strictly necessary, we request your consent before activating them where consent is required by applicable law.

Simply visiting WPBay, scrolling through the website or continuing to browse does not by itself constitute consent to non-essential cookies.

Where consent is required, you can choose whether to accept or reject optional categories through our cookie-consent interface.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies and similar technologies are required for WPBay to operate or to provide functionality specifically requested by you.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• user authentication;
• account sessions;
• shopping carts;
• checkout functionality;
• payment workflows;
• security;
• fraud prevention;
• load balancing;
• network management;
• storing cookie-consent choices;
• preventing abuse;
• remembering essential session information; and
• maintaining functionality necessary to provide requested services.

Because these technologies are necessary to provide the website or services you request, they may be used without consent where permitted by law.

Disabling these cookies through your browser may cause important parts of WPBay to stop working correctly.

Preference and Functionality Cookies

These technologies allow WPBay to remember optional choices or settings, such as display preferences, interface choices, language or other personalization.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary to provide a feature you specifically requested, they are activated only after the appropriate consent has been obtained.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These technologies help us understand how WPBay is used.

They may collect information such as:

• pages viewed;
• referral source;
• approximate geographic region;
• browser and device information;
• interaction events;
• session duration;
• website-performance information; and
• errors or technical problems.

We use this information to understand website usage, improve WPBay, identify problems and evaluate the effectiveness of features and content.

Where analytics technologies require access to information stored on your device, they are activated only after consent where required by applicable law.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

WPBay may use advertising, conversion-measurement or marketing technologies in connection with advertising campaigns.

These technologies may be used to:

• measure whether advertisements resulted in visits or purchases;
• limit repeated advertising;
• understand campaign effectiveness;
• attribute referrals or conversions;
• build advertising audiences where permitted; or
• provide more relevant advertising.

Advertising or marketing cookies requiring consent are not activated before the required consent has been obtained.

Rejecting advertising cookies does not prevent you from using WPBay’s core marketplace functionality.

Affiliate and Referral Cookies

WPBay operates referral and affiliate functionality.

Affiliate technologies may be used to determine whether a visitor reached WPBay through an affiliate or referral link and to attribute qualifying purchases to the appropriate affiliate.

Where affiliate tracking requires non-essential storage or access on your device, the technology is used only where the applicable consent requirements have been satisfied.

WPBay prohibits abusive practices such as cookie stuffing, forced tracking and hidden referral manipulation.

4. WordPress and Marketplace Cookies

Because WPBay is built using WordPress and e-commerce functionality, certain first-party cookies may be used to support standard website and marketplace operations.

Depending on how you interact with WPBay, these can include cookies related to:

• login and authentication;
• “Remember Me” functionality;
• administrative or account preferences;
• shopping-cart contents;
• checkout sessions;
• account security;
• comments;
• session management; and
• consent preferences.

Some cookies may only appear after you perform a particular action, such as logging in, adding an item to your cart, purchasing a product or submitting a comment.

Strictly necessary marketplace and account cookies do not require consent where they are necessary to provide functionality you have requested.

5. Third-Party Technologies

WPBay may use third-party providers for website infrastructure, analytics, security, payments, advertising, embedded content and other functionality.

Depending on WPBay’s current configuration and your consent choices, these providers may include services used for:

• tag management;
• analytics;
• payment processing;
• fraud prevention;
• website security;
• content delivery;
• embedded videos or media;
• advertising measurement;
• affiliate tracking; and
• other marketplace functionality.

For example, WPBay may use Google Tag Manager to manage website tags and may use Google analytics or measurement services where enabled.

Third-party technologies can receive information such as your IP address, device and browser information, page URL, interaction information and other technical information, depending on the service involved.

Where a third party places or accesses a non-essential cookie or similar technology, that technology is subject to the appropriate consent requirements.

Third-party providers may process information under their own privacy policies and, depending on the circumstances, may act as independent controllers or processors.

Additional information about third-party processing is provided in our Privacy Policy.

6. Embedded Content

Pages on WPBay may contain embedded material from third-party websites, such as videos, images, demonstrations, social-media content or other interactive content.

Loading such content can allow the third party to receive technical information about your visit and, in some cases, use cookies or similar technologies.

Where an embedded service uses non-essential technologies that require consent, WPBay will seek to prevent those technologies from loading until the required consent has been provided.

Following a link from WPBay to an external website is subject to that website’s own privacy and cookie practices.

7. Cookie Duration and Current Cookie List

Cookies are retained for different periods depending on their purpose.

Some exist only for the duration of your browser session. Others may remain for days, months or longer where this is necessary for functions such as authentication preferences, fraud prevention, consent records, analytics or attribution.

Where required by law, information about individual cookies, including their:

• name;
• provider;
• purpose;
• category; and
• duration or expiry period

is made available through WPBay’s cookie-consent interface or cookie settings.

Because WPBay’s website, integrations and service providers may change over time, the cookie list presented through the consent-management system should be treated as the most current technical inventory of cookies and similar technologies in use.

We periodically review this inventory and update it when technologies or providers change.

8. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit WPBay, you may be presented with a cookie-consent interface that allows you to make choices regarding non-essential cookies.

Depending on the technologies currently used, you may be able to:

• accept optional cookies;
• reject optional cookies; or
• manage individual cookie categories.

Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through the consent interface because they are required for requested website functionality.

Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent access to the core functionality of WPBay, although some optional features, embedded content or personalization may not work.

9. Changing or Withdrawing Consent

You can change your cookie choices or withdraw consent at any time through the cookie settings or consent controls made available on WPBay.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

After consent is withdrawn, technologies dependent on that consent will no longer be activated for future activity, subject to technical processing necessary to record your consent choice.

Cookies previously stored on your device may remain until they expire or are deleted. You can delete them through your browser settings.

10. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to inspect, block or delete cookies.

Browser controls can normally be used to:

• delete existing cookies;
• prevent websites from placing cookies;
• block third-party cookies;
• receive notifications when cookies are created; or
• clear website storage.

Blocking all cookies may interfere with login, checkout, shopping-cart functionality, security features and other parts of WPBay.

Browser settings do not replace the consent controls provided by WPBay for technologies for which WPBay is responsible.

11. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals

Some browsers and privacy tools transmit signals such as “Do Not Track” or other privacy preference signals.

There is currently no single universally implemented standard governing every such signal.

WPBay may recognize browser or device privacy signals where required by applicable law or where supported by the technologies we use.

Regardless of browser signals, users in jurisdictions requiring consent for non-essential cookies retain the cookie choices described in this policy.

12. Cookie Consent Records

Where you make a cookie-consent choice, WPBay may retain information necessary to demonstrate and remember that choice.

This may include:

• the consent selection;
• date and time;
• consent-policy version;
• an identifier associated with the consent record; and
• technical information necessary to administer the preference.

Processing of these records is necessary to respect your privacy choices and demonstrate compliance with applicable legal requirements.

13. International Data Transfers

Some third-party providers used in connection with cookies or similar technologies may process information outside Romania or outside the European Economic Area.

Where GDPR international-transfer requirements apply, WPBay uses or relies on legally recognized transfer mechanisms and safeguards as described in our Privacy Policy.

These may include European Commission adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses or another mechanism permitted by applicable law.

14. Personal Data Collected Through Cookies

Some cookie identifiers and associated technical information can constitute personal data under applicable privacy law.

Where personal data is processed through cookies or similar technologies, that processing is also subject to WPBay’s Privacy Policy.

The Privacy Policy provides further information concerning:

• purposes and legal bases for processing;
• recipients;
• international transfers;
• retention;
• data-security measures; and
• your rights under the GDPR.

15. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our technologies, service providers, website functionality or legal obligations change.

The current version will display the date of the most recent update.

Where a change materially affects consent or the use of optional technologies, we may request your consent again where required.

16. Contact Us

WPBay is operated by:

CODE IKIGAI SRL

Bistritei Street 27-29-31
Staircase 4, Floor 1, Apartment 31
400430 Cluj-Napoca
Cluj, Romania

For questions concerning this Cookie Policy or WPBay’s use of cookies and similar technologies, contact:

[email protected]

For more information about how WPBay processes personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.