Last Updated: February 19, 2026
1. What Are Cookies? Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit urbanamerica.store. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and personalized experiences to the user.
2. How We Use Cookies We use cookies for several reasons, which are detailed below:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for our e-commerce store (“The Lab”) to function properly. They enable core features such as secure login, adding items to your shopping cart, and completing the checkout process.
- Analytics & Performance Cookies: We use these to track aggregate, anonymous data regarding how many people visit our site, which pages (like “The Urban Journal” posts) are most popular, and how users navigate the website. This helps us improve our content and layout.
- Advertising & Targeting Cookies (Google AdSense): We use Google AdSense to help fund the operation of our website. Google and its third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites across the internet.
3. Third-Party Cookies In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics and deliver advertisements.
- Google AdSense & DoubleClick: Google uses advertising cookies to enable it and its partners to serve personalized ads to you.
- Social Media: Buttons and/or plugins on this site (e.g., Instagram, YouTube) may set cookies through our site to enhance your profile on their respective platforms or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences You have the right to accept or reject non-essential cookies at any time.
- Our Cookie Consent Tool: When you first visit our site, you will see a banner allowing you to manage your preferences (Accept All / Reject Non-Essential / Customize). You can update these preferences at any time by clicking the “Cookie Settings” link at the bottom of our website.
- Browser Controls: You can prevent the setting of cookies altogether by adjusting the settings on your web browser (see your browser’s “Help” section for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling essential cookies will severely affect the functionality of our e-commerce store.
- Ad Opt-Out: You may opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe.