Cookie Policy
How Hampers for Horses uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.
Last updated: September 2026
1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Hampers for Horses uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
It explains what cookies are, why we use them, the different types of cookies that may be used and the choices available to you.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect and use personal information.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites can store on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit them.
They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what you have placed in your shopping basket, keeping you signed in, remembering preferences or helping website owners understand how their website is being used.
Similar technologies may also be used to store information on or access information from your device.
3. Why We Use Cookies
Hampers for Horses may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- make our website and online shop work correctly;
- remember products placed in your shopping basket;
- enable checkout and payment functions;
- keep our website secure;
- remember certain choices or preferences;
- understand how visitors use our website;
- identify technical problems and improve website performance; and
- support advertising or marketing features where these are used and you have made the appropriate choice.
Not every type of cookie described in this policy will necessarily be active at all times.
4. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for our website and online shop to work properly.
These may be used for purposes such as:
- maintaining your shopping basket;
- enabling checkout;
- processing your choices as you move between pages;
- maintaining website security;
- keeping you logged into an account where applicable; and
- remembering your cookie choices.
Where a cookie or similar technology is strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested, it may be used without asking for your consent.
5. Preference and Functionality Cookies
Some cookies may be used to remember choices you make about how our website behaves or appears.
For example, they may remember certain settings or preferences so that you do not need to select them again each time you visit.
Whether consent is required can depend on what the technology does, how long it lasts and whether it falls within a legal exception.
Where consent is required, these technologies will not be activated unless you choose to allow them.
6. Analytics Cookies
We may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use our website.
These can help us understand information such as:
- which pages are visited;
- how visitors navigate through the website;
- whether visitors experience errors;
- which parts of the website are most useful; and
- how the website can be improved.
Where consent is legally required for analytics technologies, we will ask for your permission before using them.
7. Marketing and Advertising Cookies
If we use advertising or marketing technologies, they may be used to measure advertising, understand the effectiveness of campaigns or help show more relevant advertising.
These technologies can sometimes track activity across different websites or services.
Where consent is required, marketing or advertising cookies will not be used unless you choose to allow them.
8. WooCommerce Cookies
Our website uses WooCommerce to provide our online-shop functionality.
WooCommerce may use cookies or similar technologies to support features such as:
- remembering products in your basket;
- identifying changes to basket contents;
- enabling checkout; and
- maintaining a consistent shopping session while you browse the website.
Some of these technologies are necessary for the online shop to function.
9. Payment Providers
When you make a payment, your chosen payment provider may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
- processing payments;
- preventing fraud;
- maintaining security; and
- authenticating transactions.
Some of these technologies may be set or controlled by the payment provider rather than directly by Hampers for Horses.
The payment provider’s own privacy and cookie information may also apply.
10. Third-Party Cookies and Technologies
Some services used on our website may be provided by third parties.
These providers may place or access their own cookies or similar technologies where necessary to provide their service.
Depending on the services we use, these may include providers involved in:
- payments;
- website security;
- analytics;
- embedded content;
- advertising;
- social-media features; or
- other website functionality.
Where required, non-essential third-party technologies will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been obtained.
11. Cookie Consent
When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner or preference panel.
This allows you to make choices about the use of non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
12. Changing Your Cookie Choices
You can change or withdraw your choices about non-essential cookies at any time using the cookie settings available on our website.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdrew it.
You can also manage cookies through your web-browser settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- delete existing cookies;
- block cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- allow cookies from selected websites; or
- configure cookies to be deleted when the browser closes.
Blocking all cookies may prevent some features of our website, particularly shopping-basket and checkout functions, from working correctly.
13. How Long Cookies Last
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies generally remain only while your browser is open and are deleted when the session ends.
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
The length of time a particular cookie remains depends on its purpose and the service that sets it.
14. Cookies Used on Our Website
The cookies and similar technologies actually used on the Hampers for Horses website may change as our website develops.
Where possible, our cookie-management system will provide details of active cookies, including their purpose and category.
We will review our use of cookies periodically and update this policy where necessary.
15. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:
- our website;
- the technologies we use;
- third-party services; or
- applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will always be published on this page.
The date at the top shows when the policy was last updated.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the technologies used on our website, please contact us.
Hampers for Horses
Email: hampersforhorses@gmail.com
Business address:
Commercial Unit
Holly Tree Farm
Rhodes Minnis
Canterbury
CT4 6XU
Still have a question?
If you have a question about cookies or how your information is used on our website, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.