This Cookie Policy explains how Grow & Stow uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website.
Cookies help us operate our website, provide a better shopping experience, understand how visitors use our website and, where permitted, support marketing and advertising activities.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website.
They allow a website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit.
Cookies can be session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period.
2. How We Use Cookies
Grow & Stow may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
- Making our website function correctly
- Remembering items in your shopping basket
- Remembering your preferences
- Keeping your shopping session secure
- Processing orders and payments
- Understanding how visitors use our website
- Improving website performance and functionality
- Measuring the effectiveness of our marketing
- Providing relevant advertising, where applicable
- Preventing fraud and protecting our website
3. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly.
They may be used for functions such as:
- Shopping basket functionality
- Checkout
- Customer authentication
- Security
- Payment processing
- Website navigation
Because these cookies are necessary for the operation of the website, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tools.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.
For example, they may remember certain preferences or settings during your visit.
Where consent is required, these cookies will only be used after you have provided the appropriate consent.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
They may provide information such as:
- Number of visitors
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on the website
- How visitors navigate the website
- General website performance
We use this information to improve the Grow & Stow website and customer experience.
Where required by law, analytics cookies will only be used after obtaining your consent.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Where applicable, marketing cookies may be used to understand how visitors interact with our advertising and to measure marketing performance.
These cookies may also help us deliver more relevant advertising across websites or platforms.
Marketing cookies will only be used where legally permitted and, where required, after you have provided consent.
4. Shopify and Third-Party Services
Our online store is powered by Shopify.
Shopify and other third-party services integrated into our website may use cookies or similar technologies to provide essential website functionality, process payments, analyse website activity, prevent fraud or support other services.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy and cookie policies.
We recommend reviewing the relevant third-party privacy information where applicable.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Where applicable, you can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent or preference tools.
You can also control or delete cookies through your internet browser settings.
Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website and may prevent some features, including parts of the shopping or checkout process, from working correctly.
6. Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.
You can generally choose to:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject certain cookies
- Delete existing cookies
- Receive a notification when cookies are being used
The exact settings will depend on the browser and device you use.
7. Cookies and Personal Information
Some cookies may collect information that can be associated with you or your device.
Where personal information is collected through cookies or similar technologies, we process it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection law.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the cookies and technologies we use, or applicable legal requirements.
Any changes will be published on this page together with an updated Last updated date.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Grow & Stow
Email: growstowuk@gmail.com
Address:
Unit 4, 25 Western Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 5ZZ
United Kingdom