Cookie & Tracking Policy - HIVENDLY

PECR 2003 · ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC · Consent Mode v2

Article 1 — Definition & Technological Scope

This Cookie Policy explains how HIVENDLY (operated by SHARPEFY LTD) utilizes cookies, local storage, and tracking technologies across the public platform website and tenant administrative interfaces.

Article 2 — Classification of Trackers Used

Tracker Category	Provider	Purpose	Lifespan
Strictly Necessary (Exempt from consent)	Hivendly Core Engine	Session tokens, CSRF security verification, tenant routing, checkout shopping cart persistence.	Session to 30 Days
Performance & Network Stability	Cloudflare, Inc.	DDoS rate-limiting, load balancing, bot challenge verification (__cf_bm).	30 Minutes to 12 Months
Payment Security	Stripe / PayPal	Fraud prevention tokens during merchant billing checkouts.	Session / 1 Year

Article 3 — Merchant Storefront Cookie Governance

Each merchant operating a storefront on Hivendly acts as an independent controller regarding trackers, pixels (e.g., Meta Pixel, Google Analytics, TikTok Pixel) enabled within their store settings. Hivendly provides an integrated GDPR-compliant cookie consent banner module for merchants to activate in store themes.