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Cookies
We use cookies to improve your experience when visiting Winterson and to make it easier for you to use our website.
This short guide gives you more information about the cookies that we use and how you can restrict, block or delete our cookies. If you would like to amend your cookie preferences, please read How to Delete or Disable Your Cookie Settings below. You can still browse our website safely and securely, but in order to be able to purchase jewellery at Winterson you will need to have cookies enabled.
We are providing this information as part of our commitment to comply with recent legislation and so that we are transparent with you about your privacy when you visit our website. We are reviewing possible technical improvements as they become available to make it easier for you to manage the cookies that we use.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or device when you visit a website.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s computer or device, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, keeping track of what you have in your shopping bag and remembering you when you return to our site. Cookies can also help ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
Types of Cookies
There are four main groups of cookies and these are described below:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, some services you have asked for such as adding a product to a shopping basket cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our website, for example which pages visitors go to most often. This information allows us to make changes to the website to improve the shopping experience at Winterson.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and to provide enhanced, more personal features to you. For example, these cookies are used to provide services that you have asked for such as sharing a page with others or commenting on a blog. The information collected by these cookies is anonymised and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies
We also use cookies to deliver adverts that may encourage you to return to this website. These cookies remember that you have visited Winterson and are used to limit the number of times that you see an advertisement, as well as to help us measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
About The Cookies We Use
To make full use of the online shopping experience on this website, your computer or device will need to be set so as to accept cookies. We do not store personally identifiable information such as credit card details in the cookies we create, but we do use encrypted information gathered from them to help improve your experience of the site.
| Cookie | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Frontend | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is essential for our website to operate as it manages your shopping bag in order to remember any items ordered during your visit. |
| external_no_cache | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is essential for our website to operate. |
| stf | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is essential for our website to operate. |
| _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz | Performance | This cookie enables the function of Google Analytics software. This software helps us collect and analyse anonymous visitor information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers and response to marketing activity. That information helps us to improve the website and your shopping experience, and to make our marketing campaigns relevant. |
Third Party Cookies on This Website
Like many websites, our site uses third party cookies to improve its functionality. The third parties below provide these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.
| Third Party | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Functionality | These cookies enable a number of Google services, including user preference information, location-based services and sharing across the Google+ network. More information can be found here about Google's privacy policy. | |
| Google DoubleClick | Targeting and Advertising | These cookies allow us to advertise on the Google Display Network by placing a "remarketing cookie" during your visit. We are unable to contact you directly as the process is entirely anonymised. You can opt out of these advertising cookies at anytime as explained below. More information can also be found here about Google's advertising privacy policy. |
| Functionality, Targeting and Advertising | These cookies allow you to easily 'Like' and share content on our website. More information can be found here about Facebook's privacy policy. | |
| Nosto | Functionality, Targeting and Advertising | We use this service to help optimize our users experience by showing them relevant products and content throughout the website, discount and offer pop-ups, as well as personalised marketing of products on Facebook, Instagram and by email. More information can be found here about Nosto's privacy policy. |
| X (Twitter) | Functionality | These cookies allow you to easily share content on our website. More information can be found here about X's privacy policy. |
How To Delete Or Disable Your Browser's Cookie Settings
You can usually delete the cookies stored on your computer or device by using the settings in your web browser. You can also use these browser settings to disable cookies from all or specific websites, although many websites will not function properly if you do this.
If you would like to know more about managing cookies in your browser, you can find out more here:
If you would like to know more about managing cookies on your mobile device, you can find out more here:
Nosto
Nosto uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ (in particular their device's IP address, geographic location, country and zip code, first and last name, email address). This information is used to analyze the behaviour of visitors to the website in order to provide the visitors with meaningful purchase recommendations and personalisation as a part of the website. These recommendations may be displayed onsite, through emails or Facebook and Instagram advertising.
You can opt-out of the creation of a user profile, Nosto’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Nosto’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by contacting us at [email protected].
How To Opt Out Of Behavioural Advertising
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a website you see an increased number of online advertisements from the site you visited. This is because businesses, including ourselves, pay for these adverts to encourage a visitor to return to our site. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies.
From time to time, we advertise on Google, Facebook and Instagram, as well as showing our adverts across the Google Display Network. You can find out more about how remarketing advertising works on Google here: How Remarketing Works
If you do not wish to see these adverts, the Your Online Choices page provided by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), provides an easy way to opt out of behavioural advertising from Google and other networks represented by the IAB. Using this tool only applies to online behavioural advertising and websites, including this one, may still use cookies to collect information for other purposes.
Further Information
If you would like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
