Cookie Policy
We use cookies and similar tools across our websites to improve their performance and enhance your user experience, and by using our site you’re consenting to use them. This policy explains how we do that.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.
There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click to “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.
What sort of cookies does Hideaway Kitchen use?
Generally, our cookies perform up to four different functions:
Essential cookies
Some cookies are essential for the operation of our website. For example, some cookies allow us to identify subscribers and ensure they can access the subscription only pages. If a subscriber opts to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of the content that a subscription entitles them to.
Analytical and/or Performance Cookies
Some cookies analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This can help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the website.
Functionality Cookies
We may use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences for your return visits to our website. For example, cookies save you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site. This also enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Does anyone else use cookies on our website?
Hideway Kitchen uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Can a website user block cookies?
As we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our websites. For more information about how we use information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then please visit the www.allaboutcookies.org which has comprehensive information on the subject.
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.
Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
About cookies
Cookies are a kind of short-term memory for the web. They are stored in your browser and enable a site to ‘remember’ little bits of information between pages or visits.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text
file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies on our website
We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.
How we use cookies
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal
information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. The cookies used on this website include those which are strictly necessary cookies for access and navigation, cookies that track usage (performance cookies) and remember your choices (functionality cookies).
We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:
to recognise your computer when you visit our website,
to retain clients’ email addresses when making a reservation
to track you as you navigate our website,
to improve the website’s usability
to analyse the use of our website - such as how many people visit us each day,
in the administration of our website.
Third party cookies
We work with the following companies in maintaining and improving our website. A brief description of what they do is found below. We ensure that any company which works with us and collects personal data complies with strict GDPR data protection standards. If you have any more questions, please do contact us and we’ll be happy to help.
Google & Google Analytics Privacy Policy
We use Google Analytics to better understand how our customers navigate to and through our website, how long customers spend visiting our content items and how often they return to visit our website. Google Analytics also helps us track the effectiveness of the money we spend on our digital marketing and social media campaigns.
Google’s GDPR compliant Privacy Policy, which contains information on cookies, can be
found here.
Twitter Privacy and Cookie Policies
Twitter instantly connects people everywhere to what’s most meaningful to them. Any registered user can send a Tweet, which is a message of 280 characters or less that is public by default and can include other content like photos, videos and links to other websites.
We utilise data from Twitter Analytics for historical research to identify and learn from patterns and trends that occurred in the past to help us improve our social media marketing and generate better results.
You can find Twitter’s GDPR compliant Privacy Policy, which covers their use of Cookies
in section 2.3, here. For further information on Twitter’s Cookie Policy click here.
Facebook Privacy and Cookie Policies
We utilise data from Facebook Insights for historical research to identify and learn from patterns and trends that occurred in the past to help us improve our social media marketing and generate better results for our digital marketing clients.
You can find Facebook’s GDPR compliant Privacy Policy, which covers their Cookie Policy under the ‘Collection of Information’ heading here. For further information on Facebook’s Cookie Policy, you can find their Workplace Cookies Statement here.
LinkedIn Privacy and Cookie Policies
Professional social networking site LinkedIn use cookies and similar technologies, including mobile application identifiers, to help them recognise you across different services, learn about your interests both on and off their services, improve your experience, increase security, measure use and improve the effectiveness of their services.
They use cookies on their websites (www.linkedin.com and slideshare.net) and mobile applications. Any browser loading these sites will receive cookies from LinkedIn. For LinkedIn members and SlideShare users, they also place cookies in your browser when you visit non-LinkedIn sites that host their plugins (for example, LinkedIn’s “Share” button) unless you opt out. If you’re not a LinkedIn member, they will not place cookies in your browser through our plugins.
We utilise data from LinkedIn Analytics for historical research to identify and learn from patterns and trends that occurred in the past to help us improve our social media
Blocking cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:
• In Internet Explorer 11 you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, select the “Privacy” tab and, locate “Advanced” under Settings and choose if you want to allow, block or be promoted for first and third-party cookies.
• In Google Chrome you can adjust your cookie permissions by clicking on the three dots icon in the top right-hand corner of your browser screen, selecting “Settings” from near the bottom of the drop-down list, then clicking on “Advanced” near the bottom. This should open options. In the “Privacy” section, click “Content Settings” and disable cookies by selecting “Block site from setting any data”. Click “Done” to save your preferences.
• On Safari on Apple OS X click on the Safari menu, then “Preferences” then “Privacy”. Under “Accept Cookies” unselect the “Always allow” option.
Deleting cookies
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:
• In Internet Explorer 11 click on “Tools”, point to “Safety” and then select the “Delete browsing history”. Click on the “Cookies and website data” checkbox and then choose “Delete”.
o To delete all cookies, open the cookies window as above and click “Remove All Cookies”.
• In Google Chrome click on the three dots icon in the top right-hand corner, select “Settings” and find “Advanced” near the bottom. Under “Privacy andsecurity” click on “Content settings”. Click on “Cookies” and Under “All cookies and site data” select “Remove All”. Confirm by clicking on “Clear all”.
• On Safari on Apple OS X click on the Safari menu, then select “Preferences” from the drop-down. Go to the “Privacy” tab. Click the “Remove All Website Data” button to remove all stored website data and click “Remove Now” to confirm. To remove stored data by individual site, click on the “Details” button and select the
sites with the stored data you wish to remove. Click “Remove” and then “Done”.
Doing this may limit the usability of many websites.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us using the contact details on our contact page if you have any questions or queries regarding how we use cookies or anything else on our website.
E-mail: info@hideawaykitchen.co.uk