How and why this website uses cookies. We use only what is needed to deliver a working, secure experience and to understand how the site is used. You can disable cookies in your browser at any time.
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies — tiny files downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them, and why we sometimes need to store them. We also explain how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, although doing so may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
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. We recommend that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
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 this site. We therefore recommend that you do not disable cookies.
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 whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed or 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 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.
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 solutions on the web, for helping us to understand how you use the site and the ways in which 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.
From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. While we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site, while ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
As we sell products, it is important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase; this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you, as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
Several partners advertise on our behalf, and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites, so that we can credit them appropriately and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus they may offer you for making a purchase.
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 Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, 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.
Hopefully that has clarified things for you. As mentioned above, if there is something that you are not sure whether you need or not, it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled, in case the cookie interacts with one of the features you use on our site.
If you are still looking for more information, you can contact us by email at sales@willowalexander.co.uk.