Cookie Policy
Last updated: 21 July 2026
At Grace & Arthur Cambridge, we use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, improve your browsing experience, understand how our website is used and provide a more relevant shopping experience.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which types of cookies we use and how you can manage your preferences.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit a website.
Cookies can help websites to:
- Function correctly
- Remember items placed in a shopping basket
- Remember language or display preferences
- Improve usability and performance
- Understand how visitors interact with the website
- Provide more relevant content and advertising
Some cookies are removed when you close your browser, while others remain on your device for a defined period.
2. How We Use Cookies
Grace & Arthur Cambridge may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep our website and checkout functioning securely
- Remember your shopping basket and selected preferences
- Measure website traffic and performance
- Understand which pages and products are viewed
- Identify and resolve technical problems
- Measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
- Display advertising that may be more relevant to your interests
- Prevent fraud and protect our website and customers
Under UK cookie rules, visitors must be told what cookies are used, what they do and why they are used. Consent is generally required before placing non-essential cookies on a visitor’s device.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the basic operation, security and functionality of our website.
They may be used for:
- Shopping-basket functionality
- Secure checkout and payment processing
- Account login and authentication
- Fraud prevention and security
- Remembering cookie-consent choices
- Maintaining website sessions
Without these cookies, important parts of our website may not function correctly.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without prior consent where they are genuinely required to provide a service requested by the visitor.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features.
They may remember:
- Your preferred language
- Your region or currency
- Display settings
- Recently viewed products
- Other website preferences
Disabling these cookies may prevent certain personalised website features from working correctly.
Analytical and Performance Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.
They may collect information about:
- The number of website visitors
- Pages and products viewed
- How visitors arrived at our website
- Time spent on particular pages
- Website errors and performance
- General browsing interactions
We use this information to analyse performance and improve our website, product selection and customer experience.
Analytical cookies that are not strictly necessary will only be used where the required consent has been provided.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to provide advertising that is more relevant to your interests and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
They may help us to:
- Understand whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit or purchase
- Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
- Create advertising audiences
- Display relevant advertisements on other websites or platforms
- Measure marketing performance
Marketing cookies may track browsing activity across websites and services. They will only be placed where you have provided the required consent.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services integrated into our website.
These services may include:
- Payment providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising platforms
- Social-media platforms
- Customer-support tools
- Email and marketing services
- Website-security providers
These third parties may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
The specific third-party cookies used may change when we update our website, applications or service providers.
4. Cookie Consent
When you first visit the Grace & Arthur Cambridge website, our cookie banner may ask you to:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Choose which cookie categories you permit
Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through the cookie banner because they are required for the website to operate.
Non-essential cookies, including marketing and certain analytical cookies, will not be placed until the required consent has been provided.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can review or change your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie-settings option available on our website.
You may also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete individual or all cookies
- Block cookies from specific websites
- Block third-party cookies
- Prevent all cookies from being stored
- Receive a warning before cookies are placed
Please note that blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect:
- Shopping-basket functionality
- Checkout
- Saved preferences
- Account features
- Website performance
- Your general browsing experience
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
6. Cookie Retention Periods
The period for which a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and type.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary and are normally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device until:
- Their stated expiry date
- You delete them manually
- Your browser removes them
- The provider withdraws or replaces them
Some persistent cookies may remain for several days or months, while others may remain for longer where necessary and legally permitted.
More detailed information about individual cookies and retention periods may be available through our website’s cookie-preference tool.
7. Personal Information and Cookies
Some cookies and similar technologies may collect or be linked to information that identifies or distinguishes a visitor or device.
Where cookie information constitutes personal data, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection laws.
Please review our Privacy Policy for further information about:
- The information we collect
- Why we use it
- Who we may share it with
- How long we retain it
- Your data-protection rights
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when necessary to reflect:
- Changes to our website
- New applications or service providers
- Changes to the cookies we use
- Legal or regulatory developments
- Changes to our business operations
The latest version will always be published on this page with the revised “Last updated” date.
9. Contact Information
For questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies or your privacy preferences, please contact us:
Grace & Arthur Cambridge
Website: gracearthurcambridge.com
Email: info@gracearthurcambridge.com
We are committed to providing a transparent, secure and reliable online shopping experience.