Privacy
Privacy and website analytics
BAUWN keeps its website measurement first-party and deliberately minimal. We do not sell data, we do not build advertising profiles, and we do not use hidden device fingerprinting.
Website analytics
When you visit bauwn.com we record the pages you view, the page you arrived on, the website or campaign that referred you, your website language, and a broad device category (desktop, tablet or mobile). This tells us which work and materials people are looking for so we can improve the site.
Approximate location
Your approximate location - normally country, and sometimes region or city - is estimated from the network connection your request arrives on. We never ask for GPS or browser location permission, and we never show or store a street address. The estimate can be inaccurate on VPNs, mobile networks and business connections.
IP addresses
Your IP address is used only in the moment your request is handled, to estimate that approximate location and to protect the site. It is not written to our analytics records.
Session data
We use two first-party cookies: a short-lived session value and a random visitor value. They contain no name, email or personal detail and are not shared with other websites. They exist so that opening several pages counts as one visit rather than many separate visitors.
Forms
Details you type into a contact, sample, quote or registration form are stored so we can answer you, and are handled separately from anonymous website analytics. A visit only becomes connected to a name once you choose to submit a form.
Retention
Individual session records are deleted automatically after 90 days. Aggregated weekly statistics, which contain no individual session detail, may be kept longer.
Cookies and consent
Strictly necessary storage is always on: bauwn.consent (your cookie choice, kept until you change it or our cookie purposes change), bauwn.lang (website language) and bauwn-shopify-cart (your Shopify cart), all stored in your browser. Analytics cookies are only set after you accept analytics: Google Analytics 4 by Google (_ga, up to 2 years; _ga_<id>, up to 2 years) and BAUWN's own visit statistics (bwn_s, about 30 minutes; bwn_v, 180 days). Marketing and preference categories are reserved for the future; no marketing service such as Meta Pixel is active today.
Changing or withdrawing consent
Use Cookie settings below or in the footer at any time. When you withdraw analytics consent, further tracking stops immediately and we delete the analytics cookies on bauwn.com. Data Google already received is governed by Google's privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). We also honour the Do Not Track setting your browser sends.
Shopify checkout
Checkout and payment take place on Shopify's own pages, which have their own privacy and cookie settings. The choice you make on bauwn.com does not automatically apply there. See Shopify's privacy policy: shopify.com/legal/privacy.
Questions about data on this website: care@bauwn.com