Farlows Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies have been around for many years. A “cookie” is a very small piece of information, similar to a tag, which is stored on your desktop computer, laptop, tablet or phone when you visit a website.

They are used by almost every website in some form, including the Farlows website. To ensure you can use the Farlows website without any issues, you’ll need to ensure cookies are enabled on the web browser for any device you use.

What are cookies used for?

We use cookies on the site to help us provide you a better online experience, set personal preferences on our site, protect your security, use the online shopping features and checkout or to measure and improve our service. For instance, if you are shopping the Farlows website and have added an item to your shopping basket, a cookie will ensure this item stays in your basket when you move around the site, add further items to your basket, and ultimately checkout.

What information is kept by a cookie & how long are they stored?

Typically a cookie will hold very basic information:

• The website name it has come from
• How long the cookie will remain on your device
• A form of randomly generated value

Cookies are split into two types. Session cookies – which last until you close your browser and are not stored on your devices storage media. These are used to track the pages that you visit on the site so that we can improve user experience and customise your visit. Persistent cookies – which are stored on your hard drive until you delete browsing history or they reach their expiry date. These are used to remember site preferences and/or to use functionality such as the checkout.

Do cookies affect my privacy?

We use your personal information very carefully – the security and safety of this is extremely important to us. To find out more information on how we collect and use your data, please review our privacy policy.

Cookies do not contain specific personal information, so you can visit our website without revealing any personal information to us. However, we may ask you for personal information so that you can purchase an item from our online shop or for security reasons relating to your customer account.

How do I manage cookies on my computer or device?

You may choose to accept or refuse cookies, but it’s recommended that you accept them to get the best from a website and can use all the functionality. Some cookies are essential for areas of this website to function. Most computers or devices will accept them automatically, but you can change your browsers settings to restrict, block or delete cookies. In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. You can find our more by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or www.youronlinechoices.eu.

All browsers are different, so you can check the “help” area of your specific browser for more information, we have listed information on how to set and customise settings for some of the major browsers below:

How to manage cookies in Internet Explorer: Cookie settings in most versions of Internet Explorer can be found by clicking the tools option and then the privacy tab.

How to manage cookies in Firefox: Cookie settings in Firefox are managed in the Options window's Privacy panel. See Options window - Privacy Panel for information on these settings.

How to manage cookies in Chrome: Click on the 3-dot icon on the top right toolbar, select settings, scroll down for the advanced settings and update your requirements in the privacy section.

How to manage cookies in Opera: You can manage cookies in Opera if you Click on settings, then Preferences, then Advanced and finally Cookies

How to manage cookies in Safari: Choose Safari, then preferences and then click security. You should then be able to specify if and when Safari should accept cookies.

If you wish to manage cookies on your mobile phone or similar device, then please consult your manual or handbook.

What happens if I don’t accept or I delete my cookies?

If you choose to block cookies, some areas of the Farlows website may not work and you may not be able to access some of the areas of the website that you want. You will also be un-able to shop online with us. For this reason we recommend you ensure cookies stay enabled.

If you delete your cookies, you will have to re-save or update any preferences with us again.

Third Party Cookies

We use 3^rd party cookies to help us:

• Collect statistics about the website, so that we can improve it
• Ensure you see content and offers that are relevant to you
• Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.

Advertising and Remarketing

Cookies also help us track where you have come from, allowing us to reward companies for referring customers to us. You may also see our adverts or banners on other websites, cookies can tell us how effective these are.

Third-party vendors, such as Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on someone’s past visits to the Sportfish website. Any data collected is used in accordance with our own privacy policy and their privacy policy.

• This website uses the Google AdWords advertising and remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. This could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page.
• We work with Rakuten Advertising who use 3rd party cookies for their Affiliates, find out more by viewing the Rakuten Advertising Privacy Policy.
• This website uses the Nosto service. The purpose of the service is to display personalised product recommendations on-site, in emails and other mediums which make the shopping experience easier, more personal and enjoyable. You can find out more about how Nosto advertises to you by viewing the Nosto Privacy Policy.
• This website uses the Nextroll Group service to provide targeted advertising and remarketing services. This helps show ads to the people that are most likely to find them interesting. We aim to make advertising more useful and relevant to consumers by showing ads that are best tied to their specific interests. You can find out more about how Nextroll Group advertises to you by viewing the Nextroll Privacy Policy.
• This website also uses the Facebook advertising and remarketing service to understand and deliver ads that are more relevant to you. We may also use this service to learn whether someone who saw an ad on Facebook later visited our website. You can find out more and set preferences for how Facebook advertises to you using the Facebook Ad Preferences page.

You can find out more information on how to opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting using one of the following:
www.aboutads.info/choices
www.youronlinechoices.eu
optout.networkadvertising.org

These cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out your identity – it is simply anonymous information and no personal data is passed to us.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

• ShareThis
• AddThis

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

If you would like to find out more about cookies in general, how they work and how to manage them on your device, then visit aboutcookies.org.

Cookies on our website

Last updated 11^th October 2023