Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Yare Valley Oils uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website. It explains what cookies are, why they may be used and how you can manage your preferences.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are commonly used to help websites function correctly, remember preferences and provide information about how visitors interact with a website.

Some cookies are necessary for a website to operate, while others may be used for analytics, functionality or marketing purposes.

2. How We Use Cookies

Yare Valley Oils may use cookies to:

• Ensure the website and online shop function correctly

• Maintain your shopping basket and checkout session

• Remember your preferences

• Improve website performance and usability

• Understand how visitors interact with our website

• Help keep the website secure

• Measure website traffic and performance

• Support marketing functionality where applicable

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for essential website functionality and cannot generally be switched off through our cookie consent controls.

They may be used for functions such as:

• Shopping basket functionality

• Checkout and order processing

• Website security

• Session management

• Remembering cookie consent preferences

Because these cookies are necessary for the website to operate, your consent is not normally required for their use.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited and how users navigate between pages.

The information collected can help us identify problems and improve the performance, content and usability of the website.

Where required, these cookies will only be activated after you have provided consent.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may allow the website to provide additional functionality or remember choices you have previously made.

If these cookies are disabled, some website features may not function as intended.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing or advertising cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising or provide more relevant marketing.

These cookies may be placed by us or by third-party services integrated into the website.

Where marketing cookies are used, they will only be activated with your consent where required by law.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some features or services available through our website may be provided by third parties. These providers may place their own cookies on your device.

Third-party cookies could relate to services such as:

• Website analytics

• Payment processing

• Embedded content

• Maps

• Social media features

• Advertising or marketing services

These third parties are responsible for their own cookies and the information they collect through them. We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie information provided by the relevant third party.

5. Ecommerce and Shopping Basket Cookies

As our website provides online shopping functionality, certain cookies may be required to remember the contents of your basket, maintain your session and enable you to complete the checkout process.

These cookies are generally considered strictly necessary because the online shop cannot operate correctly without them.

6. Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner or preference tool.

You can use this to accept or reject non-essential cookies and, where available, select which categories of cookies you are willing to allow.

Strictly necessary cookies may still be placed because they are required for the website to function.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie preference controls available on the website.

7. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View cookies stored on your device

• Delete existing cookies

• Block all or certain types of cookies

• Prevent websites from storing new cookies

• Configure preferences for individual websites

Blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. For example, disabling necessary ecommerce cookies could prevent shopping basket or checkout features from working correctly.

8. How Long Cookies Are Stored

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies are temporary and are generally deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you manually delete them.

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and the service responsible for setting it.

9. Personal Information

Some information collected through cookies may constitute personal information under UK data protection law.

For further information about how Yare Valley Oils collects, uses, stores and protects personal information, please refer to our Privacy Statement.

10. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to the cookies used on our website, the services we use or applicable legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page with the relevant updated date.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on the Yare Valley Oils website, please contact us using the contact details provided on our website.