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This Cookie Policy explains how Finch & Hatton uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.finchandhatton.co.uk, referred to as the “Site”.

It should be read together with our Privacy Notice.

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website.

They allow websites to function, remember selections, maintain shopping baskets, protect accounts and understand how visitors interact with pages.

We may also use similar technologies, including:

  • Local storage.
  • Pixels.
  • Tags.
  • Device or browser identifiers.

References to “cookies” in this policy include these comparable technologies where appropriate.

Who Uses Cookies on the Site

Finch & Hatton

These are first-party cookies connected with the operation and measurement of the Site.

Shopify

Shopify hosts the Site and provides its basket, checkout, customer-account, security, localisation, analytics and consent-management functions.

Google Analytics

Subject to your consent where required, Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors find and use the Site.

We do not currently use a Meta Pixel or TikTok Pixel on the Site.

Advertising undertaken through Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or another external platform may still involve cookies placed on that platform when you use its own website or application. Those cookies are controlled by the relevant platform rather than by this Site.

Categories of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the Site to operate.

They support functions including:

  • Maintaining the shopping basket.
  • Remembering checkout and currency selections.
  • Processing secure payments.
  • Customer-account access.
  • Fraud prevention and security.
  • Remembering privacy choices.
  • Displaying the correct regional version of the Site.

These cookies cannot ordinarily be disabled through our consent controls because the service requested by the visitor could not function properly without them.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand:

  • How visitors reach the Site.
  • Which pages and products are viewed.
  • How visitors move between pages.
  • Whether errors or performance problems occur.
  • How campaigns and referral sources perform.
  • Broad device, browser and approximate-location information.

We use Shopify Analytics and Google Analytics for these purposes.

Analytics cookies are used only after consent where the law requires it.

Personalisation Cookies

Personalisation cookies remember choices that affect how the Site is presented or behaves.

These may include:

  • Regional or language selections.
  • Currency preferences.
  • Previously selected settings.
  • Features intended to make later visits more relevant.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, they are used only after consent where required.

Marketing and Attribution Cookies

Marketing or attribution cookies may help identify how a visitor reached the Site and measure the effectiveness of advertising.

Shopify may use marketing-attribution cookies where the relevant services are enabled and the visitor has provided any consent required by law.

Cookies Used by Shopify

The cookies placed may vary according to the features used, the visitor’s location, consent choices and changes made by Shopify.

The following are the principal Shopify cookies that may operate on the storefront.

Necessary Shopify Cookies

Cookie Purpose Typical duration
_shopify_essential Stores essential session, checkout, security and anti-tampering information required for the store to function. 1 year
_shopify_test Checks whether the visitor’s browser supports cookies. 1 minute
_tracking_consent Records the visitor’s cookie and privacy preferences. 1 year
cart Stores information relating to the visitor’s shopping basket. 2 weeks
cart_currency Remembers the currency associated with the shopping basket and checkout. 2 weeks
discount_code Preserves an eligible discount code for use during checkout. Session
localization Presents the appropriate country, region or localisation settings. 2 weeks

Additional secure session, authentication, checkout or payment cookies may be placed when a visitor creates an account, signs in or proceeds to checkout. Some of these operate on Shopify-controlled domains and are governed by Shopify’s own privacy and cookie information.

Shopify Analytics Cookies

These cookies are non-essential where consent is legally required.

Cookie Purpose Typical duration
_landing_page Records the page through which a visitor entered the Site. 2 weeks
_orig_referrer Identifies the original source that referred a visitor to the Site. 2 weeks
_shopify_analytics Supports analytics across Shopify buyer surfaces, including the storefront or checkout. 1 year
_shopify_s Identifies a particular browser session for Shopify analytics. 30-minute rolling expiry
_shopify_y Helps Shopify distinguish visitors for analytics purposes. 1 year
shop_analytics Supports analytics associated with Shopify buyer services where applicable. 1 year

Shopify Marketing Cookies

Cookie Purpose Typical duration
_shopify_marketing Stores marketing or attribution information across Shopify buyer surfaces where enabled. 1 year

This cookie is used only where permitted and subject to any consent required by law.

Shopify may change cookie names, purposes or durations as its services develop. Current information is available through the Shopify Cookie Policy .

Google Analytics Cookies

Subject to consent where required, we use Google Analytics 4 to measure Site usage and performance.

Google Analytics may place:

Cookie Purpose Typical duration
_ga Distinguishes visitors and supports the calculation of Site-usage statistics. 2 years
_ga_* Maintains session information for the relevant Google Analytics property. 2 years

The asterisk represents the property-specific suffix applied to the cookie used by this Site. (_ga_*)

Google Analytics may collect information including:

  • Pages viewed.
  • Approximate location.
  • Browser and device type.
  • Referral source.
  • Session duration.
  • Interactions with Site features.
  • Purchase and conversion events.

Google Analytics event-level data is configured to be retained for 14 months. This retention setting is separate from the lifetime of cookies stored on a visitor’s device and does not affect standard aggregated reporting. They also provide further information in its Privacy Policy and Google Analytics cookie guidance .

Consent

In regions where consent is required, Finch & Hatton does not activate non-essential analytics, personalisation or marketing cookies until the visitor makes an affirmative choice.

The Site’s Shopify cookie controls allow visitors to:

  • Accept all optional cookies.
  • Decline all optional cookies.
  • Choose individual cookie categories.
  • Save their preferences.

Strictly necessary cookies remain active because they are required to provide functions requested by the visitor, such as maintaining a basket, signing in or completing checkout.

Continuing to browse the Site without making an affirmative selection is not treated as consent to non-essential cookies.

Changing Your Preferences

You may withdraw or change your cookie choices at any time through the Cookie preferences control available on the Site.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that lawfully occurred before the preference was changed.

It may not always remove cookies already stored on the device. Existing cookies can also be deleted through the browser settings described below.

Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View stored cookies.
  • Delete individual or all cookies.
  • Block cookies from particular websites.
  • Block third-party cookies.
  • Prevent cookies from being stored.
  • Receive a warning before a cookie is placed.

The relevant controls are normally found in the browser’s privacy or security settings.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the Site from working correctly, including the basket, checkout, account and regional settings.

External Platforms and Links

The Site may contain links to services including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, payment providers and delivery services.

Selecting an external link may allow the relevant third party to place its own cookies. Finch & Hatton does not control cookies placed on an external website or application.

Visitors should review the privacy and cookie information supplied by the relevant third party.

Cookie Durations

A Session Cookie

It normally expires when the browser is closed or the relevant session ends.

A Persistent Cookie

It remains until its stated expiry date, until it is replaced or until the visitor deletes it.

The durations in this policy are the ordinary maximum durations stated by the relevant provider. A cookie may expire earlier because of:

  • Browser settings.
  • Consent withdrawal.
  • Manual deletion.
  • Private-browsing settings.
  • Device-security controls.
  • Changes made by the relevant provider.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

  • The cookies or technologies used by the Site change.
  • Shopify or Google changes its services.
  • A new Site feature or provider is introduced.
  • Applicable privacy law or regulatory guidance changes.

The latest version will be published with a revised effective date.

We will request fresh consent where a change requires it.

Contact

Questions about cookies or privacy may be sent to:

Finch & Hatton
Email: info@finchandhatton.co.uk
Address: [INSERT GEOGRAPHICAL BUSINESS ADDRESS]

For further information about how Finch & Hatton handles personal information, please read our Privacy Notice.