Effective Date: 19 August 2026
Last Updated: 19 August 2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Thom Ngadi Trading Store (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit and use our website.
Our website is:
https://www.thomngaditradingstore.co.za/
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit. They can help websites function properly, improve performance, remember your preferences, and provide information about how visitors use the website.
3. How We Use Cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly.
They may be used to:
- Keep products in your shopping cart.
- Process and manage orders.
- Maintain your login/session.
- Enable secure checkout.
- Remember certain website settings.
- Protect the website against fraudulent or malicious activity.
These cookies generally cannot be disabled through our cookie-consent system because they are necessary for the operation of the website.
3.2 Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow us to remember choices you make when using our website.
For example, they may remember:
- Your language preference.
- Your region.
- Certain website preferences.
- Items or settings associated with your browsing session.
3.3 Analytics Cookies
We may use analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website.
These cookies may help us understand:
- How many people visit our website.
- Which pages visitors view.
- How visitors navigate through the website.
- How long visitors spend on particular pages.
- Whether visitors experience errors.
Where applicable, analytics cookies will only be activated according to the consent choices available through our cookie banner.
3.4 Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Where applicable, we may use marketing or advertising cookies to help us understand advertising performance and provide more relevant advertising.
These cookies may be placed by third-party services integrated into our website.
Marketing cookies will only be used where applicable consent or another lawful basis permits their use.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party service providers whose services are used on our website.
These third parties may include providers such as:
- Payment service providers.
- Website analytics providers.
- Advertising and marketing platforms.
- Social media platforms.
- Security and fraud-prevention providers.
- Website hosting and technical service providers.
The use of third-party cookies is controlled where possible through our cookie-consent mechanism.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy and cookie policies, and we recommend reviewing those policies where applicable.
5. WooCommerce Cookies
Because our website uses online shopping functionality, certain cookies may be required to support our WooCommerce store.
These cookies may be used to:
- Remember items added to your shopping cart.
- Maintain your shopping session.
- Process checkout.
- Support payment processing.
- Remember information necessary to complete your order.
- Maintain security during transactions.
Disabling certain necessary cookies may prevent parts of the online store from functioning correctly.
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you may see a cookie-consent banner allowing you to manage your preferences.
Depending on the cookies used on our website, you may be able to:
- Accept all cookies.
- Reject non-essential cookies.
- Manage individual cookie categories.
- Change your preferences later.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device.
- Delete cookies.
- Block cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Receive a notification before cookies are stored.
Please note that disabling necessary cookies may affect the functionality of our website, including shopping cart and checkout functionality.
7. Cookies Used on Our Website
The exact cookies used on our website may change as we add, remove, or update services.
Our cookie-consent system may provide a current list of cookies, including information such as:
| Cookie Category | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Necessary | Website functionality, security, shopping cart and checkout |
| Functional | Remembering user preferences |
| Analytics | Understanding website usage and performance |
| Marketing | Advertising and marketing measurement |
| Third Party | Services provided by external providers |
Because cookies can change depending on the plugins, payment providers, analytics services and other technologies installed on the website, the cookie-consent tool on our website should be regarded as the most current source of information about cookies detected on the website.
8. Personal Information
Some cookies or similar technologies may collect information that can be associated with an identifiable person.
Where this occurs, we will handle such information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection legislation.
We aim to collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly and transparently.
9. Protection of Personal Information
We recognise the importance of protecting personal information.
Where applicable, our processing of personal information is intended to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and other applicable South African laws.
Where consent is required for certain non-essential cookies, you will be given an opportunity to provide or refuse consent through our cookie-consent mechanism.
10. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes to our website.
- Changes to the cookies and technologies we use.
- Changes to third-party services.
- Changes in applicable laws or regulatory requirements.
Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us.
Business Name: Thom Ngadi Trading Store
Website: https://www.thomngaditradingstore.co.za/
12. Your Consent
By continuing to use our website, you may encounter our cookie-consent mechanism, which allows you to choose whether to accept certain categories of non-essential cookies.
Your cookie preferences can be changed where the website’s cookie-consent mechanism provides this functionality.
Last Updated: 19 August 2026