Cookie Policy
Natural Essentials uses cookies, which amongst other things, help us to improve your experience of our website, and to make sure you get a seamless service. We store cookies to hold items in your basket or to make filling out forms easier. Here’s some more detail about what cookies we are using, how we are using it, and how cookies would impact your online journey with us:
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser by websites that you visit. They can do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. They can also help to ensure that the adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
A cookie can fall in one of the following categories:
Essential cookies – these cookies are required for the website to function and might include determining if a user can access a secured area of the website or identifying a shopping basket.
Non-essential cookies – these cookies allow enhanced functionality or improved experience but might not be essential to the basic functionality of the website. These can include analytics tracking that helps us understand how the website is being used, detect issues with user experience and collect data that helps us improve the website during the visit. Over time it can also offer a more personalised experience and assist in identifying the needs of our customers.
Social cookies – these social media pixel cookies are used to personalise any advertising we do in social media channels such as Facebook, and to make them more relevant.
Cookies can also be categorised as persistent or as a session cookie, in terms of their retention period:
Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie. The remain of these cookies can range between a number of days, a number of months, or can be dropped on the device permanently.
Session cookies – these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
What is Local Storage?
Local Storage is similar in purpose to Cookies and introduced in more recent browsers. Data that previously would have been stored in a cookie (a text file on the user’s computer) is instead stored in the browser, which is more secure and better optimised for modern web applications.
Use of cookies by Natural Essentials
For more details on all the cookies that Natural Essentials uses, please contact us.
How to change your cookies settings
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
You may find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers from Internet:
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
Apple Safari
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Please be aware that unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our Sites. Please note that if you refuse to accept certain cookies, some of the functions on the Natural Essentials Sites, such as adding a Product to a basket or trying to purchase it online, may not work.
UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
Natural Essentials reserves the right to update this policy in line with current legislation and best practices.
Last amended date: 26/05/2020
