Cookie Policy
Overview
To make this website work properly, we (Carraig Donn) sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too. This Cookies Notice describes what information cookies on our website gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however this may downgrade or limit certain elements of the website’s functionality.
Manage Your Cookies What are cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, shopping basket and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
When you browse and accept this cookie notice, pieces of code will be stored on your device(s).
Cookies can be personal data.
How do we use cookies
The collection of cookies allows us to better understand your interaction with our website and helps us to improve the service we provide to you. The Cookies We Set Include: Necessary Cookies: these cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. Preference Cookies: these cookies enable our website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like the region that you are in. Statistic Cookies: these cookies help us, as website owners, to understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. Marketing & Tracking Cookies: these cookies are used to track visitors across websites and collect information about your browsing habits. They are used to deliver adverts which are more relevant to you and your interests, to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies can also be placed by third parties (including advertising networks) with our permission. Some other examples of the ways in which we use cookies are:
- If you create an account with us, we use cookies throughout the sign-up process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your website preferences when logged out. We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
- When you submit data through a contact form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. Enabling these ‘non-necessary’ cookies is not required for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
The list of exact cookies that we use are detailed in the Cookies Declaration Area on our website.
Third party cookies
In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties, who place cookies on your device when visiting our website.
For example, we use Google Analytics, which is one of the most common analytics solutions on the internet for helping us to understand how you use our website and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the website and the pages that you visit using a persistent ID for a single user across multiple devices, so we can continue to produce engaging content.
We have tried to be as clear as possible within this cookie policy. Each third party provider we use to provide our services to you has their own privacy and cookie notices, which will tell you how they use cookies.
As our own cookies and third-party cookies are subject to change, we will do our best to update this notice and our complete and current list of cookies as required.
How to control cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
You can manage cookies as you wish – please visit our Privacy Centre on our website and click Cookie Preferences.
More information
Hopefully this has clarified things for you.
However, if you are still looking for more information, then you can contact Carraig Donn by email: online@carraigdonn.com
This notice was most recently updated: 7th December, 2023