Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the website work properly, remember certain preferences, improve performance and understand how visitors use the site.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others, such as analytics or marketing cookies, are used only where permitted and where consent is required.

2. How We Use Cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Keep the website working correctly.
• Support basket, checkout and secure payment functions.
• Remember your cookie choices.
• Improve website performance and customer experience.
• Understand how visitors use our website through analytics, where enabled.
• Support marketing or social media features, only where these are used and where consent has been given.

3. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the basic operation of our website. They help with functions such as basket, checkout, security, login, session management and remembering your cookie preferences.

These cookies cannot usually be switched off because the website needs them to work properly.

Examples may include:

• woocommerce_cart_hash
• woocommerce_items_in_cart
• wp_woocommerce_session_
• wordpress_logged_in_
• cookie_notice_accepted or similar cookie consent preference cookies

4. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited and how customers move around the site.

This information helps us improve the website and customer experience.

If analytics tools such as Google Analytics are used, these cookies should only be set where required consent has been given.

Examples may include:

• _ga
• _gid
• _gat

5. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may be used to remember choices you make on the website, such as language, region, display settings or other preferences.

These help provide a more personal and convenient browsing experience.

6. Marketing and Third-Party Cookies

Marketing or third-party cookies may be used to support advertising, social media features, embedded content or marketing performance tracking.

These cookies are not essential to the basic operation of the website and should only be used where they are enabled on our site and where consent has been given.

Third-party services may include platforms such as Google, Meta, PayPal, Stripe, social media platforms, analytics tools or embedded content providers.

7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our website, you may see a cookie banner allowing you to accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies.

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time where this option is available through the cookie settings on our website.

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.

8. Cookies and Personal Data

Some cookies may collect information that can be treated as personal data, such as an IP address, device information or browsing behaviour.

For more information about how we collect, use and protect personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.

9. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our website, or the cookies and technologies we use.

Any updates will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.