Our Cookie Policy: Understanding Your Digital Experience
At Herbal Vitality UK, we believe in transparency and empowering you with control over your privacy. This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience, provide relevant content, and ensure the smooth operation of our website. By continuing to use our site, you consent to our use of cookies as described herein.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can perform various functions, such as remembering your preferences, tracking your activity, or enabling certain features. They are essential for a modern, personalized web experience.
When you revisit our site, these cookies help us recognize you and remember your previous choices. This means you don't have to re-enter information every time you visit, making your experience smoother and more convenient. They also help us understand how you interact with our content, allowing us to continuously improve our offerings.
Types of Cookies We Use
We utilize various types of cookies to ensure our website functions optimally and provides you with the best possible experience. Understanding these categories can help you make informed decisions about your cookie preferences.
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services like shopping carts cannot be provided. They do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission.
How We Use Cookies at Herbal Vitality UK
Our use of cookies is carefully considered to enhance your experience without compromising your privacy. Here's a breakdown of how we leverage these technologies:
Website Functionality
We use strictly necessary cookies to enable core website functionality. This includes maintaining your shopping cart across sessions, remembering your login status for a personalized experience, and ensuring the security of our site. Without these, certain parts of our website simply wouldn't work.
Analytics & Performance
Performance cookies help us understand how you interact with our website. We analyze aggregated, anonymous data to identify popular pages, track navigation paths, and pinpoint areas for improvement. This allows us to optimize our content and layout for a better user experience.
Personalization
Functionality cookies allow us to remember your preferences, such as language settings or products you've viewed recently. This personalization ensures that your visits are tailored to your interests, making it easier to find what you're looking for and discover new products.
Your Cookie Choices & Control
You have full control over your cookie preferences. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.
Here's how you can manage cookies in common browsers:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Site Settings > Cookies and site data.
- Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Clear browsing data > Choose what to clear.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Block all cookies.
Please note that if you choose to block all cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly. For the best experience, we recommend allowing essential cookies.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on. These third parties have their own privacy policies which we encourage you to review.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our website. This helps us improve our content and user experience. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous information about your browsing habits.
Social Media Plugins
Our website may include social media features, such as "Like" or "Share" buttons. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly.
Advertising Partners
We may partner with third-party advertising networks to display relevant ads on our website and other sites. These partners may use cookies and similar technologies to gather information about your browsing activities to provide you with targeted advertising.
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
Herbal Vitality UK reserves the right to update this Cookie Policy at any time. We encourage you to review this page periodically for any changes. Any modifications will be effective immediately upon posting to the website. Your continued use of the website after any changes signifies your acceptance of our updated policy.
Last Updated:
October 26, 2023
Questions?
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please don't hesitate to contact us.