Cookie Policy

Witch owned by Lornamead UK Ltd
COOKIE POLICY

Effective Date: 20 November 2023

How we use cookies and similar technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies including web beacons, embedded scripts and etags (together referred to as “cookies”, unless otherwise stated) to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use the Witch website and also allows us to improve our site.

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Some parts of our website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. We do not connect this information with data about individual users, nor do we sell this information to, or share it with any third party (other than as specified in our privacy policy).

By using our website you accept our use of these cookies. If your browser settings are set up as ‘Do Not Track’, we will not use cookies and tracking technologies. See section four below for more details on how you can opt-out of cookies.

Here are some additional things you should know about our use of cookies:

  • you may encounter cookies from our third party service providers that we have allowed on our website that assist us with various aspects of our website operations and services.
  • you may also encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of our website that we do not control and have not authorised. For example, if you view a web page posted as a link from our website there may be a cookie placed by that web page.

Cookies use on our website

We use cookies for a variety of reasons including providing you the service you have requested, to enhance the performance of and analyse how our website is used and to enhance your online experience, for example, by remembering your log-in status and viewing preferences from a previous use of our website.

Our use of cookies falls into four categories:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are required for the operation of our website. These include for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, to move around the website and use its features; such as to use the shopping basket when making a purchase.
  • Analytical or performance cookies: these cookies 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 helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

We may change our use of cookies over time, but our use of cookies will generally fall into the above categories. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of any changes.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be partially used within the European Union or just in the European Economic Area if it is used by other parties. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States, and then shortened so it is only partially used there. The IPanonymisation is active on this website.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of analysing your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; please note, however, that if you do this you may not be able to use the full website. You can also optout from being tracked by Google Analytics in the future by downloading and installing ‘Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on’ for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Alternatively, you can opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics in the future by clicking on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Opting out of cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; please visit your browser’s help menu for further details. Please note that if you choose to reject cookies, doing so may impair some of our website functionality.

For more information and how cookies they can be managed and deleted please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://optout.networkadvertising.org/

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title | Cookie Name Purpose More information
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ga We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. The cookies collect information anonymously, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they have visited. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. Our use is subject to Google’s current cookie which you can find here: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/  https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/

 

Cookie usage

I use cookies to ensure the basic functionalities of the website and to enhance your online experience. You can choose for each category to opt-in/out whenever you want. For more details relative to cookies and other sensitive data, please read the full privacy policy.

      • Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of my website. Without these cookies, the website would not work properly.
      • Analytical or performance cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember the choices you have made in the past
        Name Domain Expiration Description
        _ga_CM44P34GZD google.com 2 years This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
        _ga google.com 2 years This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
        _gat google.com 1 minute This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
        _gid google.com 1 day This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
    • Advertisement and Targeting cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the website, which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. All of the data is anonymized and cannot be used to identify you
      Name Domain Expiration Description
      _gcl_au google.com 3 months This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
      _fbp google.com 3 months Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

More Information

For any queries in relation to our policy on cookies and your choices, please contact us.