COOKIES STATEMENT
Cookies on www.bespokebritannia.co.uk
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies make websites work or work more efficiently and they can also be used to provide information to the website owners and third-parties.
‘First-party’ cookies are set by the owner of the website you have visited. ‘Third-party’ cookies come from other sources that have items such as adverts or images embedded on the page and the information from third-party cookies may be used by both the website owner and a third party (e.g. google).
The different types of cookies we use
There are two different types of cookies that a website may use and these are explained below:
Session cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember the actions of a user whilst they are browsing around the website. They are deleted after at the end of the “session” this means once the user is not using that website anymore. These cookies are less intrusive as they do not remain on the user’s device long term.
Persistent cookies
These cookies are stored on a device and allows the actions and preferences of the user to be remembered across different sessions and in some cases across websites.
How we use cookies
When you use and access this website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:
to enable certain functions of this website (cookies remember you, so you can move from page to page and they remember items you have put in your basket
to provide analytics (this means the information we collect about visits to our website and what pages are visited and if there were any errors)
to store your preferences (so that we can show you goods and services we think you will be interested in – but only if you give us permission)
to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising (this means we may show you adverts from us or our third party partners that we think will interest you – but only with your permission)
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of this website, deliver advertisements on and through this website, and so on. Our website may contain the following third-party cookies:
1.) Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they have visited.
Google Analytics uses the following cookies on our site:
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Identifies the number of each user’s visits; identifies the time of the first, previous and current visit.
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identifies the session (how long you stay on a site).
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identifies the session (how long you stay on a site).
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identifies where a visitor came from (search engine, search keyword, link).
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identifies user-custom variables.
These are all first-party cookies. No data or personal information is held.
2.) Other third-party cookies
We do not use advertising cookies. Any adverts or links on our website by external companies, remain on set pages of the website and are not based on your preferences or how you navigate around the website.
Please note that third parties may also use cookies over which we have no control. For example, external websites and social networks like Facebook may set their own (third party) cookies. You will need to contact those sites directly for their cookie policy.
What can I do to control cookies?
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can refuse the setting of all or some cookies by activating the setting on your browser. However, if you block all cookies you will lose functionality and will not be able to access all or parts of our site, for example; you will not be able to stay signed into our site to successfully shop.
The website www.aboutcookies.org provides lots of information on how you can manage cookies on a range of browsers.