Welsh Quilt Centre - Cookies Policy
WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE YOU INFORMATION ABOUT THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH OUR COOKIES ARE STORED AND ACCESSED AND TO OBTAIN YOUR CONSENT TO USE COOKIES; STORE AND RETRIEVE USAGE INFORMATION FROM VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE OR USERS COMPUTERS OR MOBILE DEVICES. SUCH CONSENT WILL BE OBTAINED BY YOU POSITIVELY INDICATING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE USE OF COOKIES WHEN YOU REGISTER FOR A SERVICE AND/OR BY YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS AND/OR BY YOU TICKING THE RELEVANT BOX CONFIRMING THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE USE OF COOKIES.
Information about our use of Cookies
- Our Website uses 'cookies' to distinguish you from other users of our website.
- This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our service. On revisiting our website, we will therefore be able to obtain information about your previous visits and about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.
- Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searchesand to recognise you when you return to our site.
- Generally provide a more convenient browsing experience for you.
- You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
- A cookie is a small amount of data or parcels of text that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive if you agree. Generally, such a 'cookie' being a file in your web browser will enable the Website to recognise your computer when you visit the site.
- These cookies contain information about you and your preferences. Generally, we use cookies to record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart.
- You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.
- It is not advisable to use cookies if your computer is shared by other people. You should clear 'cookies' stored by the web browser when using another person's computer to avoid your e-mail address or other details being displayed in the login field to a subsequent user of our Website.
- You can accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or modify your browser to alert you of any new cookies. To clear the stored cookies, you can normally go to the Tools dropdown menu at the top of the browser window.
- Certain parts of the Website may not function without technical problems if you have 'disabled' the cookies file in your browser.
- The use of cookies enables the Website to complete in our login fields with the user's details including email addresses following registration and effectively speed up the login to the Website by users. It is used by most online retailers and the Website to help collect information, such as how many people visit and return to the Website, what services are subscribed for or accessed and which products are purchased from the online shop on the Website, and to ensure the proper functioning of certain parts of the Website.
- You can discover independent information about cookies by researching the Internet or carrying out online searches.