Last updated: September 4, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Shenzhen Taoyue Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (深圳市韬越电子科技有限公司), operating through AlcoholTester (“AlcoholTester,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://alcoholtester.com (the “Website”).

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, share, retain, and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device. They can help a website operate correctly, remember information about your visit, keep products in a shopping cart, maintain a login session, measure website use, support customer communication, and measure advertising performance.

Cookies may be:

  • Session cookies: deleted when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies: remain until their stated expiration date or until you delete them.
  • First-party cookies: set by AlcoholTester or the Website.
  • Third-party cookies: set by another service, such as an analytics, advertising, payment, chat, or social-media provider.

2. Similar Technologies

We may also use pixels, tags, web beacons, local storage, software development tools, device identifiers, conversion APIs, and similar technologies. These technologies may collect or store information about your browser, device, activity, advertising interactions, or communications. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies” unless a distinction is necessary.

3. Why We Use Cookies

Depending on the Website features and services enabled, we may use cookies to:

  • Operate the Website and its security features.
  • Maintain shopping carts, checkout sessions, customer accounts, and login status.
  • Remember language, display, region, and other preferences.
  • Provide Tidio online chat and customer support.
  • Understand traffic, navigation, product interest, and Website performance.
  • Measure Google Ads and Meta/Facebook advertising and conversions.
  • Manage Mailchimp subscription forms and measure email engagement.
  • Display or link to Instagram, WhatsApp, and other third-party content.
  • Detect fraud, misuse, errors, and security incidents.

4. Categories of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for core Website functions such as security, account login, shopping carts, checkout, order processing, fraud prevention, load balancing, and remembering privacy choices. The Website may not function correctly without them.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies provide enhanced features such as online chat, remembered preferences, embedded content, and social-media functions. If you reject these cookies, some optional features may not operate correctly.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors find and use the Website, including pages viewed, session activity, device and browser information, approximate location, referring sources, and Website performance. We may use Google Analytics for these purposes.

Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies and pixels help measure advertising performance, attribute conversions, limit repeated advertising, create audiences, and provide or measure personalized advertising. We may use Google Ads and Meta Pixel for these purposes.

Marketing and Communication Technologies

Mailchimp may use cookies, pixels, or link tracking to manage subscription forms and measure email delivery, opening, and link engagement. Tidio may use cookies or similar technologies to maintain chat sessions, remember chat activity, and provide support. WhatsApp, Instagram, and other communication or social-media services may process information when you open, use, or interact with their features.

5. Cookies Used by Our Online Store

Our Website operates using WordPress and WooCommerce. Depending on the features you use, the following strictly necessary or functional WooCommerce cookies may be set:

Cookie Typical duration Purpose
woocommerce_cart_hash Session Helps WooCommerce detect changes to the shopping cart.
woocommerce_items_in_cart Session Helps WooCommerce determine whether the cart contains products.
wp_woocommerce_session_* Approximately 2 days Stores a unique customer code so WooCommerce can locate cart data.
woocommerce_recently_viewed Session Supports recently viewed product features when enabled.
store_notice* Session Remembers that a visitor dismissed a store notice when that feature is enabled.

WordPress may also use authentication, security, preference, and account cookies when you register, sign in, or use account features. Cookie names and durations may vary according to the WordPress, WooCommerce, theme, plugin, browser, and security configuration in use.

6. Analytics and Advertising Cookies

The following examples describe cookies or similar identifiers that may be used when the relevant service is enabled and permitted:

Provider Examples Purpose Typical duration
Google Analytics _ga, _ga_* Distinguishes users and maintains analytics session information. Up to 2 years by default, subject to configuration and browser limits.
Google Ads Google advertising and conversion identifiers, which may include _gcl_* Measures advertising, conversions, and campaign attribution and may support remarketing. Varies according to Google configuration and consent choices.
Meta Pixel Identifiers that may include _fbp and _fbc Measures advertising performance, conversions, and interactions and may support audience creation. Varies according to Meta configuration, browser limits, and consent choices.
Mailchimp Subscription-form, email-pixel, and link-tracking identifiers Manages subscriptions and measures email delivery and engagement. Varies according to the feature and Mailchimp configuration.
Tidio Chat-session and visitor identifiers Provides online chat, remembers conversations, and supports customer service. Session or persistent, depending on Tidio configuration.

The table is intended to describe the principal technologies associated with the services we use. It is not a guarantee that every listed cookie is active for every visitor or that a provider will always use the same name or duration. Providers, browsers, plugins, and Website settings may change how cookies operate.

7. Third-Party Services

The following third parties may set cookies, receive identifiers, or process Website interaction information when their services are enabled:

Payment providers such as PayPal, Alipay, banks, and XTransfer may use technologies necessary to secure and process a transaction when you choose their services. Their own websites and payment environments are governed by their respective privacy and cookie policies.

8. Cookie Consent and Your Choices

Where required by applicable law, we request consent before activating non-essential analytics, advertising, marketing, or optional functional cookies. Strictly necessary cookies may operate without consent where permitted because they are needed to provide the Website, cart, checkout, account, security, or requested service.

When a cookie banner or preference tool is available, you may use it to:

  • Accept all cookies.
  • Reject non-essential cookies.
  • Choose individual cookie categories.
  • Change or withdraw your choices later.

Rejecting optional cookies does not prevent you from browsing the Website, but analytics, advertising measurement, online chat, embedded content, remembered preferences, or other optional features may be limited.

9. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to review, block, or delete cookies through their privacy or security settings. If you block all cookies, essential cart, checkout, account, login, security, and preference functions may not operate correctly.

Browser controls apply to the browser and device where you change them. You may need to repeat your choices on another browser or device and after deleting cookies.

10. Provider Controls and Opt-Outs

You may also be able to manage certain services directly:

These controls are operated by third parties, and their availability may depend on your account, region, browser, and device.

11. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Signals

Some browsers and devices offer Do Not Track or other privacy signals. Because there is not one universally accepted technical standard for every signal, our response may depend on the applicable law and the technologies implemented on the Website. Where a legally recognized opt-out signal applies, we will take reasonable steps to honor it as required.

12. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when our Website, plugins, service providers, advertising tools, or legal obligations change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about cookies or privacy choices, contact:

Shenzhen Taoyue Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
深圳市韬越电子科技有限公司

Floor 1, No. 546-8 Longhua Industrial Road
Longyuan Community, Longhua Street
Longhua District, Shenzhen
Guangdong 518109, China

Email: support@alcoholtester.com

For more information about how we process personal information, please review our Privacy Policy.