WHAT ARE COOKIES?
‘Cookies’ are small text files containing some information that, if you agree, are stored by the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. Cookies are used, for example, to store your preferences, recognize when you go back on our Website and monitor your use of the Website. You can think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the Website, enabling it to recognize a user and respond appropriately. Cookies can also be used to provide you with tailored advertisements while browsing other sites.
OUR USE OF COOKIES
Site-based cookies
These cookies are used to track various information on the Website, such as whether you are logged on, or the content of your basket.
Anonymous Analytics cookies
Every time a user visits our Website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.
Unless you are signed in to Holland & Holland, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address.
Third party cookies
On some pages on this site, third parties may also set their own anonymous cookies, for the purposes of tracking the success of their application, or customizing the application for you. Because of how cookies work, Holland & Holland cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by Holland & Holland.
For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.