Cookie Policy
This is the cookie policy for https://theartisancollab.com (this/our 'Site'). Our Site uses 'cookies' to distinguish you from other users of our Site. A cookie is a small file of data sent by our Site and stored on your device that our Site can read, and which helps us keep track of how you use our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site. For the purposes of this cookie policy, we use the term 'cookie' to cover our use of all types of similar technology used to monitor online activity, including cookies, tags, pixels and beacons. We hope that this policy helps you understand and feel more confident about our use of cookies.
THE TYPES OF COOKIE THAT WE USE
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.
Analytical performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our Site and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous (i.e. we could not identify you using the data, nor would you be identifiable to us).
Functionality cookies. These are cookies that enable us to recognise you when you return to our Site. Thsi means we can personalise our content to you and remember your preferences.
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose and to ensure that adverts that you see displayed are relevant to you.
Some of the cookies that we use are placed on your device (i.e. start collecting data) each time you visit our Site and are deleted when you close your browser. These cookies are known as 'session cookies'. Some other cookies have a longer lifetime (which varies cookie by cookie) and will be stored on your device until their expiration date. These are known as 'persistent cookies'. Most of our cookes have expired within 24 hours of being deployed, however some cookies (including some Google Analytics and advertising cookies) will not expire for up to 24 months.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Please note that third parties may also use cookies on our Site. For example, we use Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to learn about the age and gender of the Site's users along with the interests they express through their purchasing activities. You can find out more about how Google uses Google Analytics cookies by clicking here. We use Shopify for our check out process and you can find out about their use of cookies here.
MANAGING COOKIES
You will normally see a message on our Site before we store a cookie on your computer which describes the types of cookies we use and what information they might collect. We will not place (and we will not permit third parties to place) analytical or performance cookies or functionality cookies on your device when using our Site unless you have told us that you are happy for us to do so. You can change your mind at any time by updating your preferences.
You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies and your browser provider may communicate with you to ask you to confirm what settings you want. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page and, if you want to, you can opt out of interest‑based advertising entirely by using Google's opt out tool.
If you would like further information about our use of cookies and similar technologies, you can contact us at hello@theartisancollab.com. You can also find more information about our use of personal data by reading our privacy policy which is available here theartisancollab.com/privacy.