This Cookie Policy explains how HomeiLove.co.uk ("HomeiLove",
"we", "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when
you visit or use our website and related online services.
This policy should be read alongside our
Privacy Policy,
which explains more generally how we handle personal information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website may store on your
computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device. They can help a
website function, remember information about a visit, maintain a
user's session or understand how visitors use the website.
We may also use similar technologies, such as local storage,
tracking pixels, scripts or tags, where applicable. This policy
uses the term "cookies" to refer to cookies and these similar
technologies collectively.
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
Depending on the features you use and the technologies enabled
on our website, cookies may be used for the following purposes:
❖ Essential functionality: to support
website operation, security, login sessions and other
functions necessary for a service you request.
❖ Analytics and performance: to understand
website traffic, visitor activity and how people interact
with our pages.
❖ Preferences and functionality: to remember
choices or settings, where such features are available.
❖ Advertising and measurement: if applicable,
to measure advertising performance or support advertising
features.
We aim to use only the cookies and similar technologies needed
for their stated purposes and to review their use periodically.
The categories above describe possible purposes; they do not
mean that every category is necessarily active on every page.
3. Types of Cookies
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support functions that are essential to provide
a service you have requested. Depending on how you use the
website, they may support secure login, session management,
security or the operation of essential features.
Where a cookie meets the applicable legal requirements for the
strictly necessary exemption, consent is not required. These
cookies cannot generally be disabled through a cookie preference
tool if doing so would prevent the requested service from
working properly.
3.2 Analytics Cookies
We use, or may use, Google Analytics to understand how visitors
interact with HomeiLove.co.uk, where this service is enabled.
Analytics information may include pages visited, interactions,
browser and device information, approximate location derived
from technical data, and information about how visitors arrive
at the website.
Google Analytics may use cookies such as _ga and
_ga_* to distinguish visitors or maintain analytics
session information. The exact cookies and their retention
periods depend on the configuration of the service.
Unless a specific legal exception applies, we will seek the
required consent before using non-essential analytics cookies
or similar technologies. You can decline them without being
required to accept them as a condition of using the website.
Where these features are available and the relevant technologies
are used, they may help remember your preferences or make
website features more convenient. We will obtain consent where
required by applicable law.
3.4 Advertising and Third-Party Cookies
If advertising, embedded content or other third-party services
are enabled, those services may use cookies or similar
technologies for advertising, measurement, security or
functionality.
We will provide appropriate information about the technologies
in use and obtain consent where required. The privacy practices
of third-party providers are governed by their own policies.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting.
Third-party cookies or similar technologies may be provided by
another service integrated into the website.
Depending on the features enabled, third-party services may
process technical or usage information in accordance with their
own privacy notices and applicable legal requirements.
5. How Long Do Cookies Last?
Some cookies are session cookies, which are normally removed
when you close your browser. Others are persistent cookies,
which remain on your device for a specified period or until
you delete them.
The duration depends on the purpose and configuration of each
cookie. We aim to ensure that information is not stored or
accessed for longer than is necessary for the relevant purpose
and applicable legal requirements.
6. How We Obtain Consent
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
2003 (PECR), as applicable, and relevant UK data protection
law, we will provide clear information and obtain consent
before storing information on, or accessing information from,
your device where consent is required.
Consent should be freely given, specific and informed, and
expressed through a clear affirmative action. Simply continuing
to browse the website does not, by itself, constitute consent
to non-essential cookies.
Strictly necessary technologies may be used without consent
where the relevant legal exemption applies.
7. How to Manage Cookies
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Most
browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies and to
configure settings for future cookies.
Please be aware that blocking essential cookies may prevent
parts of the website from working correctly, including features
that depend on a login session.
Where a cookie preference tool is provided on HomeiLove.co.uk,
you can use it to review or change your choices for non-essential
cookies. Where consent is required, withdrawing consent should
be made as straightforward as giving it.
Deleting cookies through your browser may remove previously
saved preferences. You may then need to make your choices again.
8. Personal Information and Cookies
Information collected through cookies or similar technologies
may constitute personal data where it identifies you or can be
linked to you. Where personal data is processed, we handle it
in accordance with applicable data protection law, including
the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, as amended.
Our Privacy Policy provides further information about the
purposes and legal bases for processing personal information,
data sharing, retention and your rights.
9. International Data Transfers
Some service providers may process information outside the
United Kingdom. Where personal data is transferred
internationally, we will take the steps required by applicable
data protection law to ensure that the transfer is lawful and
that appropriate safeguards are in place where required.
10. Children's Privacy
HomeiLove.co.uk is not intended to encourage children to provide
personal information inappropriately. We do not knowingly use
cookies to collect personal information from children in a way
that breaches applicable law.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our
website, the technologies we use or applicable legal requirements.
Any updated version will be published on this page with a
revised "Last updated" date.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of
cookies, please contact us:
