Privacy & campaign preferences

Last updated November 9, 2026.

College Nutcracker helps you find school nutcrackers sold and shipped by Hostess & Home. Checkout takes place on Hostess & Home’s website.

Links and referral attribution

Our checkout and product-listing links include fixed UTM labels identifying College Nutcracker as the referring website and the holiday campaign. Checkout links also identify the selected school and the referral code NotRuthsBrother. If you arrive using a campaign link, validated campaign labels may follow your navigation and be included in the checkout link. These labels describe a traffic source, campaign, or advertisement. They do not identify a completed purchase on this site.

We accept only short campaign identifiers. We do not forward advertising click IDs, free-text search terms, email addresses, or other customer fields from incoming links. Please never put personal information in campaign labels or URLs.

Optional remembering on this device

Campaign labels are not saved by default. If you choose “Remember campaign attribution,” this site stores the permitted labels and your choice in your browser’s local storage for up to 30 days. A new tagged visit during that period updates the saved labels and expiry. This does not identify you across devices.

You can turn remembering off or clear the labels below. Clearing removes the saved choice and incoming advertisement labels from this page’s address and its shopping links. The fixed retailer-link labels for College Nutcracker, the holiday campaign, and the selected school remain. Browser privacy settings or clearing site data can also remove them. We honor a browser Global Privacy Control signal by disabling this optional storage.

Optional analytics

Analytics is off by default. If you allow it, our server records school-page views and outbound checkout-link clicks with the school, product variant, validated campaign labels, an event identifier for avoiding duplicate counts, and the server receipt time. These records do not contain your name, email, full page URL, advertising click ID, or a customer profile. Reports cover a rolling 30-day period; expired records are removed when the reporting or event service runs.

School views can be counted when you allow analytics on the current page. Earlier checkout clicks are not replayed. A checkout click means you followed a link, not that you started or completed a paid order.

Optional advertising

Advertising is also off by default. If you allow it, enabled Meta and Google advertising tags may receive page views, school-product views and checkout-link clicks, together with the school or product identifier and ordinary browser/network information. These services can use cookies and their identifiers to recognize browsers, measure advertising activity and build audiences for relevant ads on Facebook, Instagram and Google services. We do not send names, email addresses, order data, or other customer fields through these tags, and do not use advanced customer matching here.

We load advertising tags only after your permission. We use a clean page address and may skip advertising measurement when the incoming referrer cannot be safely handled. Advertising click IDs are not forwarded to Hostess & Home. See Meta’s privacy policy, Google’s privacy policy and Google ad controls for their practices and choices.

Change or withdraw your choices

Use “Privacy choices” on any shopping page to accept, reject, customize or withdraw optional analytics and advertising consent. Both are optional and shopping works without them. We save your yes/no choices on this device for up to 180 days so we can honor them. Withdrawing advertising consent clears accessible advertising cookies set on our domain and reloads the page to stop loaded advertising code. It does not erase information already received by providers or cookies on their own domains.

We honor Global Privacy Control by disabling optional analytics, advertising and remembered campaign labels. Your choices apply to this browser and this website. Browser settings may also block these services or prevent us from saving your preference.

Website hosting and delivery services process technical request information, such as network addresses and requested URLs, to deliver the site. This page does not claim that infrastructure request logs are absent.

Retailer checkout and media

Product images may load from Hostess & Home’s Shopify image service. When you follow a checkout or retailer link, Hostess & Home and its service providers handle your visit, order, payment, and their own analytics according to their policies and choices. Our preferences do not change your choices on their website. College Nutcracker currently does not receive paid-order confirmations, report purchases to advertising platforms, or know whether a visitor has purchased.

Read Hostess & Home’s privacy policy for retailer practices and privacy contact information.

Private production review

Authorized reviewers use a separate signed-in experience. Review feedback is attached to a video version and is not part of the public shopping pages. Reviewers should avoid personal or sensitive information in feedback.