Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how LEADER AD uses cookies and similar browser technologies on LEADERAD.site to operate the Website, keep accounts and carts working, remember appropriate preferences, support security, and enable requested checkout features.
Core WordPress and WooCommerce cookies support login, cart, security, and transaction functions requested by the visitor.
Non-essential technologies, where used and where consent is required, should not be treated as accepted merely because someone visits the Website.
LEADER AD does not sell personal information collected through Website cookies.
1. Scope and Relationship to Other Policies
This Cookie Policy applies to cookies and similar technologies used through LEADERAD.site, including its public pages, customer accounts, WooCommerce store, cart, checkout, and Website-based service forms.
It should be read together with the LEADER AD Website Privacy Policy, the Terms & Conditions, and the Refund & Cancellation Policy. Product-specific applications, plugins, platforms, or separately hosted services may publish a separate privacy notice where their processing materially differs.
2. What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are
A cookie is a small text record stored by a browser when a Website is visited. A session cookie generally expires when the browser session ends. A persistent cookie remains until its stated expiry, until it is replaced, or until the visitor removes it.
Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, scripts, device or browser identifiers, and server-side session records. These technologies do not all operate in the same way, but may serve related functions such as remembering a cart, maintaining a secure account session, or recording a preference.
Cookies can be set by LEADER AD as the Website operator (first-party cookies) or by another service whose content or function is requested through the Website (third-party cookies).
3. Categories We May Use
- Strictly necessary: required for core Website delivery, fraud and security controls, login, cart, checkout, session management, and other functions specifically requested by the visitor.
- Functional: remember optional choices such as language, interface preferences, or dismissed notices.
- Analytics or performance: help understand Website reliability and aggregated use where such tools are configured. Where applicable law requires consent, these tools should be activated only after a valid choice.
- Advertising or targeting: may support campaign measurement or tailored advertising if LEADER AD deliberately introduces such functionality. Their presence is not implied by this Policy, and consent or another lawful mechanism will be used where legally required.
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent login, cart, checkout, payment, language, security, or other requested functions from operating. Optional technologies should be managed separately where the Website makes them available.
4. Core WordPress and Account Cookies
LEADERAD.site uses WordPress. Depending on the action taken, WordPress may set cookies such as the examples below. Hashes or identifiers in a cookie name can vary.
| Cookie or pattern | Typical purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
wordpress_test_cookie | Checks whether the browser can accept cookies, particularly around login. | Session or temporary. |
wordpress_[hash], wordpress_sec_[hash] | Authenticates access to protected WordPress areas. | Usually the session or approximately two days; settings can vary. |
wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Recognizes a logged-in account on the Website. | Usually the session or approximately two days; may last longer when “Remember Me” is selected. |
wp-settings-[UID], wp-settings-time-[UID] | Remembers interface preferences for an authenticated user. | May persist for up to approximately one year. |
wp_lang | Remembers the selected WordPress interface language where the feature is used. | Typically the session. |
The precise duration can be affected by WordPress configuration, account choices, security controls, browser settings, and updates. Authentication cookies contain protected session information; they are not a substitute for the account password.
5. WooCommerce and Store Cookies
The Website uses WooCommerce for products, carts, accounts, downloads, and checkout. The following core cookies may be used when a visitor interacts with store functions:
| Cookie or pattern | Typical purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
woocommerce_cart_hash | Helps determine when cart contents or cart data change. | Session. |
woocommerce_items_in_cart | Helps determine whether the cart contains items. | Session. |
wp_woocommerce_session_[hash] | Connects the browser to the appropriate cart or customer session stored by WooCommerce. | Typically two days, subject to configuration. |
woocommerce_recently_viewed | Supports a recently viewed products feature if that feature is displayed. | Session. |
store_notice[notice_id] | Remembers that a visitor dismissed a store notice, if a notice is active. | Session. |
wc_order_attribution_* | May record limited session-level source information for an order when WooCommerce order attribution is enabled. | Generally the visitor session; WooCommerce describes the attribution session as approximately 30 minutes by default. |
WooCommerce explains that its core cart cookies do not themselves store personal information. Order, billing, account, and download information submitted through store forms is processed separately as described in the Website Privacy Policy.
6. Payment and Third-Party Checkout Technologies
When a visitor chooses an available payment method, the payment provider may set or read cookies, device information, fraud-prevention signals, or similar technologies needed to display its interface, authenticate the transaction, manage risk, prevent misuse, and complete payment.
For example, PayPal functionality may be loaded on checkout or after a PayPal payment option is selected. PayPal controls its own cookies and processing under its applicable privacy and cookie documentation. LEADER AD does not receive the full payment-card credentials entered directly into a third-party payment interface.
Availability, names, domains, and durations of third-party payment technologies can change when the provider updates its service. Visitors should review the provider information presented during checkout.
7. Language and Preference Technologies
The Website may use browser storage or cookies to remember a selected language, theme, accessibility preference, dismissed message, or similar interface choice. Such technology is generally functional and is used to carry out or remember the visitor’s request.
Machine translation can produce errors or differences from the original Website language. A language preference does not change the governing version of a legal policy unless LEADER AD expressly states otherwise.
8. Analytics, Advertising, and Embedded Content
LEADER AD may use limited performance or analytics tools to understand Website reliability, detect errors, and improve navigation. It may also add campaign measurement, media embeds, maps, video players, or social content in the future. Those services may set their own technologies when configured, loaded, or deliberately activated by the visitor.
This Policy does not mean that every listed category or third-party technology is active on every page or for every visitor. The technologies actually used depend on the Website configuration, the page, consent choices, location, browser, login status, and the feature requested.
LEADER AD does not sell personal information collected through Website cookies. Where consent is legally required for optional analytics, advertising, or embedded third-party technologies, LEADER AD will seek an appropriate choice before use or will otherwise limit the relevant technology.
9. Consent and Legal Grounds
Strictly necessary cookies are used to provide requested Website functions, protect accounts and transactions, prevent misuse, and operate the service. Depending on the applicable law and context, this may be based on necessity for the requested service, performance of a transaction, legitimate operational and security interests, or another permitted ground.
Where applicable law requires prior consent for a non-essential cookie or similar technology, LEADER AD will request a freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous choice through the interface made available for that purpose. Refusing an optional category should not block unrelated necessary Website functions.
Consent can be withdrawn for future use through any available cookie-preference interface or through browser controls. Withdrawal does not invalidate processing that lawfully occurred before withdrawal and does not automatically remove information already incorporated into a completed order or another record that must be retained.
10. How to Manage Cookies
Visitors can usually review, block, or delete cookies through browser privacy settings. Browser instructions vary, and blocking all cookies can cause carts, accounts, payments, language choices, and security features to stop working.
- Use any cookie-preference control made available on LEADERAD.site for optional categories.
- Use browser settings to delete existing cookies or restrict future cookies by site.
- Use private or incognito browsing where appropriate, recognizing that this does not make activity anonymous to every service.
- Review third-party settings for payment, media, or social services used intentionally through the Website.
Removing WooCommerce session cookies can empty the current cart or require the visitor to sign in again. Deleting a cookie does not cancel an order, refund a payment, erase an account, or remove records that LEADER AD must retain for security, legal, accounting, dispute, or transaction purposes.
11. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
Browser “Do Not Track” signals are not governed by a single universally accepted technical or legal standard, and the Website may not respond to every such signal in the same way.
Where applicable law requires recognition of Global Privacy Control or another legally valid opt-out signal for a processing activity, LEADER AD will treat the signal in accordance with that applicable requirement and the Website capabilities. A signal cannot disable technologies that remain strictly necessary to provide a function the visitor deliberately requests.
12. Retention and Changes
Cookie lifetimes shown in this Policy are typical durations based on the relevant platform and may change through configuration, security needs, feature updates, or provider changes. Session records stored on the server can have a different retention period from the browser cookie that references them.
LEADER AD may update this Policy when technologies, providers, store features, legal requirements, or Website practices change. The “Last updated” date will be revised when a material update is published. Where required, a new consent choice will be requested before materially different optional processing begins.
13. Contact LEADER AD
Questions about Website cookies, privacy choices, or this Policy may be sent to: