Cookie Policy

About cookies and browser storage

Cookies are small text files that a website can ask a browser to store on a computer, phone or other device. Websites may also use related technologies such as local storage, session storage, browser-based preferences and server-side session identifiers.

These technologies can serve different purposes. Some are used only while a visitor is actively using the website, while others may remain on the device for a defined period so that a preference can be remembered during a later visit.

Cookies do not themselves provide PFVN with direct access to files or other information stored elsewhere on your device. The information available through a cookie or browser-storage item depends on what the website or service placed there.

How PFVN approaches cookies

PFVN is designed primarily as a business-to-business product information and inquiry website. The site does not need behavioral advertising cookies in order to provide its core product catalog, application guides, search, contact forms or quotation-request functions.

PFVN aims to keep browser storage limited to functions that support website operation, security, visitor choices or other clearly identified purposes. If optional analytics or other non-essential technologies are introduced, their use should be assessed separately and reflected in the site's consent controls and this policy where appropriate.

Essential website storage

Essential cookies and similar technologies are those reasonably necessary to operate the website, remember a visitor-requested setting, maintain security or deliver functionality requested by the visitor.

Depending on the technical configuration of pfvn.us, essential storage or server-side controls may support:

• Website and form security
• Spam and automated-submission prevention
• Temporary session management
• Contact and quotation-form processing
• Navigation or interface functions
• Remembering a visitor's cookie preference
• Protection against repeated or abusive requests

Blocking technologies that are strictly necessary for these functions may cause part of the website to stop working correctly.

PFVN's consent preference

PFVN uses a small first-party preference to remember whether a visitor selected Accept or Essential only through the website's cookie notice. This prevents the consent banner from being displayed unnecessarily on every page or every return visit.

The consent preference may remain stored for up to one year unless it is removed earlier through the browser, the site's cookie controls or another device-management function. It is intended only to remember the visitor's privacy choice and is not intended to create an advertising profile.

Review or change your cookie choice

Essential and optional technologies

For practical purposes, website technologies can be divided into two broad categories:

Essential technologies

These support basic site functionality, requested services, security or privacy choices. They may be used where reasonably necessary even when a visitor selects an essential-only preference.

Optional technologies

Optional technologies may include analytics, measurement, embedded media, advertising or other services that are not required to provide the core website. If PFVN introduces technologies that require consent under applicable requirements, they should be handled through an appropriate consent mechanism before being activated where required.

Contact and quotation forms

Visitors can use PFVN forms to submit product inquiries, quotation requests and related business information. Form processing may involve technical information needed to transmit the request, maintain website security and reduce spam or automated abuse.

Such controls can involve server-side processing and do not necessarily require persistent cookies. Information intentionally entered into a contact or quotation form is handled separately from ordinary browser-storage preferences.

For more information about submitted business inquiries and personal information, review the PFVN Privacy Policy.

Analytics and performance measurement

PFVN does not intend to depend on behavioral advertising technologies as a requirement for using the website.

If analytics or performance-measurement tools are introduced, they may be used to understand matters such as which website pages are visited, how visitors navigate the site, which devices or browsers are used, referring pages and general website performance.

Depending on the selected service and its configuration, analytics data can potentially include:

• Pages viewed
• Approximate geographic region
• Browser and operating-system information
• Device category
• Referring website or page
• General interaction or navigation information
• Technical performance information

Before deploying a new analytics service, PFVN should consider whether it uses cookies or similar identifiers, whether data is shared with a third party, how long information is retained and whether consent or additional disclosure is appropriate for the relevant jurisdictions.

Advertising and behavioral tracking

PFVN is primarily intended to connect industrial buyers with fruit and vegetable ingredient information and sourcing resources. The website is not designed around interest-based advertising or the creation of behavioral advertising profiles.

If PFVN's use of advertising, remarketing, cross-site tracking or similar technologies changes materially in the future, the website's consent mechanism and this policy should be updated to describe those technologies and provide any controls required by applicable rules.

Third-party services and external websites

PFVN pages may contain links to external websites or may, now or in the future, interact with third-party services. Independent third parties operate under their own privacy, cookie and data-handling practices.

Once a visitor follows a link away from pfvn.us, cookies or other technologies used directly by the destination website are controlled by that third party rather than by PFVN.

If PFVN embeds third-party functionality directly into pfvn.us and that functionality can place non-essential cookies or similar identifiers, the integration should be reviewed before deployment and handled through an appropriate disclosure or consent process where required.

First-party and third-party cookies

A first-party cookie is generally associated with the website the visitor is actively using—in this case, pfvn.us. A third-party cookie is associated with another service or domain involved in providing content or functionality.

PFVN's cookie preference is intended to operate as a first-party preference. Third-party technologies may have different purposes, retention periods and privacy practices if they are ever integrated into the website.

Session and persistent storage

Browser storage can also be distinguished by how long it remains available.

• Session technologies generally remain only for the duration of a browser session or another temporary period.
• Persistent technologies can remain after the browser is closed until they reach their defined expiration date or are manually deleted.

The appropriate retention period depends on the purpose of the technology. PFVN aims to avoid retaining browser identifiers longer than reasonably necessary for the function they support.

How long cookies and related data remain

There is no single retention period for every type of website technology. Temporary session information may expire when the relevant session ends, while a persistent preference may remain for a longer period so that the website can remember a user choice.

PFVN's cookie-consent preference may be stored for up to one year. Other server-side security, form or operational records may follow separate retention periods appropriate to their purpose and are not necessarily stored as browser cookies.

Managing cookies through your browser

Most modern browsers provide controls for cookies and other website data. Depending on the browser, visitors may be able to:

• View cookies stored by individual websites
• Delete existing cookies and site data
• Block cookies from particular websites
• Reject certain third-party cookies
• Clear browser storage automatically
• Restrict site permissions

Browser manufacturers may use different terminology and menu structures, so visitors should refer to the current privacy or site-settings documentation supplied by their browser provider.

Deleting PFVN's consent preference may cause the cookie notice to appear again during a later visit.

Changing your PFVN cookie choice

You can review or change the cookie preference saved by PFVN using the button below. If optional technologies are available, the site's consent interface should reflect the choices currently supported by the website.

Review or change your cookie choice

You may also remove cookies and browser storage directly through your browser. Removing the stored preference means PFVN may need to ask for your choice again on a future visit.

Do Not Track and browser privacy signals

Some browsers and privacy tools can send signals expressing a visitor's preference regarding tracking or the sale or sharing of personal information. Examples of browser-based privacy signals and their legal treatment can evolve over time and may vary by jurisdiction.

How a website must respond can therefore depend on the technologies actually in use and the legal requirements applicable to the visitor. PFVN's general approach is to minimize unnecessary tracking rather than depend on behavioral advertising technologies for normal website functionality.

Website security and abuse prevention

Security systems may process technical information to protect forms and website infrastructure against spam, malicious activity, excessive automated requests and other misuse.

Security-related processing may rely on server logs, request information, temporary identifiers or other technical controls. These measures do not necessarily require advertising or analytics cookies and may operate independently of optional cookie preferences where reasonably necessary to secure the website.

Cookie choices and form submissions are separate

A cookie preference controls browser-storage choices; it does not prevent information from being transmitted when a visitor intentionally completes and submits a contact or quotation form.

If you submit a form, the information you enter is processed in order to receive and respond to the inquiry, subject to the practices described in the Privacy Policy.

Changes to website technologies

PFVN may update the website, forms, search functions, security systems or other technical components over time. As a result, the specific cookies or storage technologies used by the site may also change.

If a material change introduces a new type of non-essential tracking, analytics or third-party technology, PFVN should update the relevant disclosures and consent controls as appropriate.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be revised to reflect changes in website functionality, technology providers, consent requirements, privacy practices or applicable legal requirements.

The version published at pfvn.us/cookie-policy.html should be treated as the current description of PFVN's cookie and browser-storage practices.

Relationship to the Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy focuses specifically on cookies, browser storage and related website technologies. PFVN's broader practices concerning information submitted through inquiries and forms are addressed in the Privacy Policy.

Visitors reviewing how PFVN handles website information should read the two policies together where relevant.

Questions about cookies or privacy

If you have a question about this Cookie Policy, PFVN's website-storage practices or your cookie preference, contact PFVN at info@pfvn.us.

You can also use the website's contact page or review the Privacy Policy for additional information concerning website inquiries and personal information.