Cookie Policy – The Give Shop Limited (company number 14066461)

This policy sets out how and why the website owned and operated by The Give Shop Limited (we, us, or our) and available at https://giveshop.co.uk/ uses cookies. You should read this policy together with our privacy policy which explains how we process your personal data, available at https://giveshop.co.uk/privacy-policy/. 

We use cookies in accordance with the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and the Data Protection Act 2018. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit the website and are used to make the users’ experience more efficient. We use cookies to distinguish users and to improve the website. We analyse how you use the website, and we look at aggregate statistics about your usage, and how others use the website. We collect certain information from these cookies, and this includes information about your IP address, your location when you access the website, the date and time you access the website, the language you use and the type of browser you use. We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

• Google Analytics – this is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. The cookies used by Google Analytics help us to analyse how users use our website and to count the number of people who use it. Google Analytics stores your IP address anonymously. Google does not associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.
• Google Ad Words – these cookies collect information about how visitors use the website. This data is collected anonymously, to help make our marketing communications more relevant, and is used to improve the website’s functionality.
• Facebook Pixel – these cookies collect information about how visitors use our website. This data is collected anonymously and is used to help improve our website’s functionality.

We will always ask for your consent to use non-essential cookies. You are free to withhold consent to this, but it means that we might not be able to provide the full website experience to you, including some elements of video advertising. If at any time you wish to disable our cookies, you can do so through the settings on your browser, or whenever the pop-up appears on the website (each time you access the website).

We may process your data for compliance with a regulatory requirement or legal obligation to which we are subject to. Your data will only be processed if processing the data to comply with such obligation is a reasonable and appropriate way of achieving compliance. 

Changes to this policy

This policy will be routinely reviewed to ensure it is accurate, up-to-date and complies with any and all updates under UK privacy law. The current policy is published on our website or can be obtained by contacting us using the information above.

This policy was last reviewed and updated July 2022.