This Cookie Policy explains how Winsome Planet ("we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at winsomeplanet.com. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
2. Why do we use cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Others, which are optional, help us understand in aggregate how the site is used. We do not use cookies to target advertising.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use.
- Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics 4 (loaded through Google Tag Manager) and Microsoft Clarity help us understand, in aggregate, which pages and places people use. Clarity is not loaded at all unless you allow analytics.
- Advertising Cookies: None are set today. The banner asks about advertising so that, if a partner is ever added, it stays off unless you choose “Accept all”.
4. How can I control cookies?
When you first visit Winsome Planet, our own consent banner offers three choices: Only essential, Essential + analytics or Accept all. Declining is a single click, and the site works the same whatever you choose.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, nothing beyond strictly necessary cookies is set until you choose. Elsewhere, analytics is on by default and the same banner lets you turn it off. We use Google Consent Mode, so Google's tags follow your choice; it is stored in your browser so we do not ask on every visit.
You can change or withdraw that choice at any time, and just as easily as you gave it, using the link in the footer of every page, or on the Cookie Preferences page. Withdrawing consent stops further analytics collection from that moment. It does not delete cookies already in your browser — your browser's settings can do that — and it cannot retroactively erase data already gathered while consent was in force — to have that erased, email compliance@winsomeplanet.com (see the Privacy Policy).
You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you reject cookies you may still use our website, though access to some functionality and areas may be restricted.
5. Updates to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.