Cookie Policy for Sally Clay Ltd
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Twitter, Google+, Instagram, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Data collection
No financial information including credit and debit card data is stored by this website.
A variety of personal information may be collected through this website, including your name, email and other contact details, demographic and geographic information. In some cases such information must be submitted in order for you to access certain sections of this website or to perform specific tasks through the services available on this website. Nevertheless in all cases you voluntarily and knowingly submit this personal information.
Some other information is collected automatically as soon as you arrive at and browse this website. Such automatically collected information includes your IP address and related geographic information, your web browser type and version, and the device and operating system that you are using to access this website. This website will also record a list of web pages (URLs) that you have visited, starting with a referring site followed by your activity on this website, and finally the web page that you exit to. This information is used solely for measuring the general activities of all visitors to this website. We do not use this data to track the activities of individual visitors. Cookies and similar data may also be created and recorded in order to provide specific services and deliver useful functionality through this website. By using this website you agree that such automatic data can be gathered.
Data storage
The publishers of this website will make all efforts to keep your personal data secure and will never willingly sell your personal data to a third party except without your prior approval.
Unless required by law, the publishers of this website will never disclose your personal information to third parties.
Data usage
Any data collected may also be used by the publishers of this website for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping
- Improvement of our products and services
- Improvement of this website
- Market research purposes
- Other internal uses
Third party websites and services
The publishers of this website may from time to time employ the services of other parties for dealing with matters that may include payment handling, delivery of purchased items, search engine facilities, advertising and marketing, and design and development of this website.
The providers of these services may be given access to some of the data collected through this website, including your personal data, for the purposes of carrying out their services.
Change of business ownership and control
In the event that ownership or control of all or part of this website is transferred to another body, then data collected through this website may also be transferred to that other body. Such data will be transferred to the new owner under the condition that such data is only used for purposes set out in this privacy statement.
Controlling your data
You have the right to ask for a copy of your personal data on payment of a small fee.
You can withhold information in two ways: by not supplying personal information at all through this website, and by restricting your internet browser’s use of cookies.
Changes to this policy
The publishers of this website reserve the right to change this privacy policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of this policy on your first use of this website following the alterations.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: enquiries@sallyclay.co.uk
Phone: 07974423494