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Effective Date: August 6, 2026
Last Updated: August 6, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Galardi Group Franchise & Leasing, LLC (“Tastee-Freez,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit tastee-freez.com and related webpages that link to this Cookie Policy (collectively, the “Site”).
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device. We may also use similar technologies, including local storage, session storage, pixels, web beacons, tags, scripts, and device or browser identifiers.
These technologies may store information on your device or transmit information to us or to third parties when you use the Site.
Depending on the technology and how it is used, information collected may include:
- Device or browser identifiers;
- IP address;
- Approximate location;
- City, state, ZIP code, or other location information submitted through the Site;
- Pages viewed;
- Referring webpages;
- Links or features selected;
- Interactions with the Site;
- Browser and device information;
- Date and time of visits; and
- Information about your preferences.
Some of this information may be considered personal information under applicable privacy laws.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Other cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted through your browser or device settings.
2. HOW WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We use first-party technologies, which are set by Tastee-Freez, and third-party technologies, which are set or operated by service providers and other third parties.
We may use these technologies to:
- Operate, secure, and protect the Site;
- Detect malicious, fraudulent, or automated activity;
- Support forms and prevent spam;
- Support restaurant-location searches and related functionality;
- Remember certain preferences and selections;
- Understand how visitors use the Site;
- Measure Site traffic and performance;
- Identify referring sources and marketing campaigns;
- Improve Site content, functionality, and user experience;
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing campaigns; and
- Support advertising and related marketing activities.
Where required by applicable law, non-essential analytics and advertising technologies will be used only after the appropriate consent has been provided.
Necessary technologies may operate without consent where permitted because they are required for Site security, core functionality, or storing privacy choices.
3. TYPES OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES WE USE
The technologies used on the Site are described below. Technology names, providers, purposes, and durations may change as the Site and third-party services are updated.
A. Necessary Technologies
Necessary technologies support security, core Site functionality, form processing, spam prevention, and privacy preferences. Disabling these technologies may cause portions of the Site to function incorrectly.
| Technology | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
wpEmojiSettingsSupports | Session storage | Session | Used by WordPress to store the result of browser emoji-support testing during the browsing session. |
| CAPTCHA and form-protection technologies | Cookies, scripts, or browser storage | Varies by technology | Used on forms to help distinguish legitimate visitors from automated or abusive activity and to reduce spam and malicious submissions. |
| Consent and privacy-preference records | Cookie or browser storage, when enabled | Varies according to configuration | Records a visitor’s cookie, consent, or privacy selections so those preferences can be applied and retained. |
Necessary technologies may be used without consent where permitted by applicable law because they support Site security, requested functionality, or privacy preferences.
B. Functional Technologies
Functional technologies support Site features and remember information necessary to provide enhanced functionality.
| Technology or Service | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurant locator and geolocation services | Website requests, scripts, APIs, or browser technologies | Session or as necessary to process the request | Processes a city, state, ZIP code, address, or other location information submitted by a visitor to locate nearby Tastee-Freez restaurants. |
| Browser geolocation | Browser/device functionality | Generally request-based | May be used, with the visitor’s permission, to determine approximate or precise device location for restaurant-location functionality. |
| Location-search information | Website request data or browser storage, when used | Session or until cleared, depending on configuration | Allows the Site to process and, where applicable, temporarily remember a location search so relevant restaurant results can be displayed. |
Location information may be processed after you enter a city or ZIP code, use a location-search feature, or permit your browser or device to provide location information.
C. Analytics and Performance Technologies
Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use the Site, measure traffic and performance, identify referring sources, and improve the Site and our marketing campaigns.
The Site uses Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy certain website tags and scripts.
| Technology | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Google Tag Manager (GTM-TN68J8C) | Tag-management technology | Google Tag Manager itself does not generally require a cookie | Manages and deploys analytics, measurement, advertising, or other website tags according to the Site’s configuration and applicable consent settings. | |
| Website analytics identifiers | Analytics service providers | Cookies, pixels, scripts, or browser identifiers | Varies by provider and configuration | Helps measure visits, page views, sessions, referral sources, Site interactions, and Site performance. |
Analytics technologies may collect information including IP address, approximate location, browser and device information, referring source, pages viewed, session information, and interactions with the Site.
The specific analytics identifiers used may change when our analytics or tag-management configuration is updated.
D. Advertising and Measurement Technologies
Advertising and marketing technologies may be used to measure advertising performance, attribute visits or other actions to marketing campaigns, create or measure audiences, limit repeated advertisements, and support more relevant advertising where permitted.
| Technology | Provider | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising and conversion-measurement tags | Advertising and marketing service providers | Cookies, pixels, scripts, or device/browser identifiers | Varies by provider | Helps determine whether advertising or marketing resulted in a Site visit or other interaction and evaluates campaign performance. |
| Marketing pixels and web beacons | Advertising, social-media, and marketing providers | Pixel, web beacon, script, or identifier | Varies | May measure Site visits, advertising interactions, conversions, or the effectiveness of marketing communications. |
| Campaign and referral identifiers | Advertising and analytics providers | Cookie, URL parameter, or browser identifier | Varies | Helps identify the advertising campaign, referral source, or marketing communication that led a visitor to the Site. |
Additional advertising or measurement identifiers may be created when you visit the Site through an advertisement, tagged marketing link, social-media platform, or other campaign.
Third-party providers may process information collected through these technologies according to their own privacy policies and settings.
4. WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS
The Site and our marketing communications may use web beacons, pixels, or similar technologies.
These technologies are small electronic files or pieces of code that can help us or our service providers understand whether a webpage, advertisement, or communication was viewed or interacted with.
They may be used to:
- Count visitors to webpages;
- Measure Site activity;
- Determine whether marketing communications were opened or acted upon;
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns;
- Attribute Site activity to a particular marketing source; and
- Generate aggregate or statistical information about Site usage.
Third-party service providers may use these technologies together with cookies or other identifiers, subject to applicable law and privacy choices.
5. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES
The Site may include functionality, content, or links supplied by third parties, including analytics providers, mapping or geolocation services, social-media platforms, advertising providers, and other service providers.
When you interact with a third-party feature or follow a link to another website, the third party may collect information or place or access its own cookies according to its own privacy policy.
We do not control the cookies, privacy practices, or retention periods used on third-party websites or services.
Simply displaying a link to a third-party or social-media service does not necessarily mean that the provider places a cookie through the Tastee-Freez Site. Additional technologies may be used after you select the link or interact with a third-party feature.
6. MANAGING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES
Cookie or Consent Controls
When the Site provides a “Cookie Settings,” “Consent Preferences,” or similar privacy control, you may use that control to review or change available cookie choices.
Changing your preferences generally affects future cookie use. Cookies or other information previously stored on your device may need to be deleted through your browser settings.
Certain necessary technologies cannot be disabled through a consent panel because they are required for core Site functions, security, form protection, or storage of privacy choices.
Browser Controls
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through the browser’s settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- Review stored cookies;
- Delete cookies;
- Block all cookies;
- Block third-party cookies;
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored; or
- Restrict cookies for selected websites.
Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the operation of some Site features, including forms, restaurant-location searches, and other requested functionality.
Instructions for managing cookies are available from major browser providers, including Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
Analytics Controls
Analytics providers may offer additional tools that allow you to limit or opt out of certain measurement technologies.
Google provides a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that may prevent supported Google Analytics technologies from sharing information about your visit activity with Google Analytics.
You can learn more about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Advertising Controls
Advertising providers, social-media platforms, browsers, mobile operating systems, and industry organizations may provide additional settings that allow you to limit personalized advertising or advertising measurement.
These settings may not prevent all advertising and may not remove cookies that have already been stored on your device.
You can review Google’s advertising controls at Google My Ad Center.
7. COOKIE AND TECHNOLOGY DURATION
The duration of cookies and similar technologies depends on their purpose and configuration.
- Session cookies and session storage generally expire when you close your browser or browsing session.
- Persistent cookies remain until their stated expiration date or until you delete them.
- Browser storage may remain until the Site removes the information, it expires, or you clear it through your browser or device settings.
- Third-party cookies and identifiers are controlled by their respective providers and may have different expiration periods.
Cookie durations may change when the Site, analytics configuration, tag-management system, advertising platform, consent system, or third-party service provider is updated.
8. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to the Site, the technologies we use, our service providers, our business practices, or applicable legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Cookie Policy.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.
9. MORE INFORMATION
For more information about how Tastee-Freez collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information, and about privacy choices and rights that may be available to you, please review our Privacy Policy.
Questions about this Cookie Policy or our privacy practices may be sent to:
Galardi Group Franchise & Leasing, LLC
Attn: Privacy Questions
1775 Flight Way, Suite 125
Tustin, California 92782
Email: privacy@wienerschnitzel.com
Phone: 1-800-764-9339
