Cookie Policy

01What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser when you visit. They allow the site, or a third party working with it, to recognise your browser on later visits, remember preferences and measure how pages are used. Cookies can be session cookies, which disappear when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain until they expire or you delete them.

Similar technologies include local storage, pixels (also called web beacons or tags) and device identifiers. In this policy, we use “cookies” to refer to all of these technologies.

02Why We Use Cookies

Panera Bread Menu is free to read and has no user accounts. We use cookies to keep the site secure and working properly, remember your privacy choices, understand which pages are useful and fund the site through advertising served by Google AdSense. Where the law requires it, such as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, non-essential cookies are only set after you give consent through Google's certified consent management message.

03Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. Examples include:

• Consent cookies set by Google's consent management message to remember the choices you make, so you are not asked on every page.
• Security and load-balancing cookies set by our hosting or content delivery provider to protect against abuse and keep pages loading quickly.

You can block these through your browser, but parts of the site may not work as intended.

04Preference Cookies

Preference cookies remember choices that change how the site looks or behaves, such as a display setting or a recently selected menu category. They make your visit more convenient but are not essential. The information they collect is not used to track you across other websites.

05Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the site: which pages are most viewed, how long people stay and whether they encounter errors. We may use tools such as Google Analytics for this purpose. Typical cookies include _ga and _ga_*, which distinguish unique visitors and usually last up to two years. We use this information in aggregated form to improve our guides, and we only set these cookies with your consent where required.

06Advertising Cookies and Google

We use Google AdSense to display ads. Google and its certified partners, which are third-party vendors, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies, including the DART cookie, enables it and its partners to show ads based on your browsing across the Internet, limit how often you see an ad and measure ad performance.

Examples of advertising cookies you may encounter include IDE, __gads, __gpi, NID and test_cookie, typically lasting from a few minutes up to 13 months or more depending on the cookie. These are third-party cookies controlled by Google or its partners, not by us. To learn more, see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

If you decline personalised advertising, you may still see non-personalised ads based on the content of the page you are viewing. These may still use cookies for frequency capping, fraud detection and aggregated reporting.

07How Consent Is Requested

We do not run our own custom cookie banner. Instead, when you visit from a region where consent is required, including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, consent is requested through Google's certified consent management message, which follows the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. It lets you consent to, or decline, personalised advertising and related cookies before they are used.

You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing your cookies, adjusting your browser settings or turning off ad personalisation in Google Ads Settings. You can also use the industry opt-out tools listed below. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before you withdrew it.

08Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Most browsers let you view, block and delete cookies. Settings are usually found in these places:

• Google Chrome: Settings › Privacy and security › Third-party cookies.
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data.
• Apple Safari: Settings or Preferences › Privacy › Manage Website Data.
• Microsoft Edge: Settings › Cookies and site permissions › Manage and delete cookies and site data.
• Mobile devices: check your browser app's privacy settings, and your device's advertising settings for mobile ad identifiers.

Blocking all cookies may affect how some websites work, and you will need to set your preferences again on each browser and device you use.

09Opting Out of Personalised Advertising

You can control personalised ads directly with these tools:

• Visit Google Ads Settings to turn off ad personalisation.
• Visit www.aboutads.info/choices to opt out of personalised advertising from participating third-party vendors.
• Residents of Europe can also use www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Opt-outs are often stored in a cookie, so if you clear your cookies you may need to opt out again.

10Cookie Retention

Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a set period: consent cookies typically last up to 13 months, analytics cookies up to 2 years and Google advertising cookies generally up to 13 months, though third parties may change their own cookie lifetimes. You can delete cookies at any time using your browser.

11Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when we change technologies, partners or legal requirements. The latest version will always be available on this page. For more on how we handle data, read our Privacy Policy and GDPR & Your Data Rights page, or email contact@panera-breadmenue.com with any questions.