Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Paragon Shading Direct uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website, what they are used for and the choices available to you.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
They can be used for purposes such as remembering a shopping basket, maintaining a secure session, remembering preferences or understanding how a website is used.
Cookies and similar technologies
The rules do not apply only to traditional browser cookies. Websites can also use other technologies that store or access information on a user's device.
References to cookies in this policy therefore include similar storage and access technologies where appropriate.
Why we use cookies
Cookies and similar technologies may be used to support the operation of Paragon Shading Direct, provide functions requested by visitors and, where permitted, help us understand and improve the website.
The purpose depends on the particular technology being used.
Categories of cookies
Cookies used on the website may fall into the following categories.
Strictly necessary
RequiredNeeded for core functions requested by you, such as site security, basket, checkout, account login or remembering certain essential choices.
Functional
Where usedMay remember optional preferences or provide enhanced website functionality that is not strictly necessary for the service you requested.
Analytics
OptionalMay help us understand how visitors use the website, which pages are useful and where the online experience can be improved.
Marketing
OptionalWhere used, these technologies may be associated with advertising, campaign measurement or recognising visitors across websites or services.
Strictly necessary cookies
Certain technologies are necessary for the website or a service you have requested to operate properly.
Depending on how you use the website, these can include functions such as:
- maintaining website and account security;
- keeping products in your basket;
- allowing the checkout process to operate;
- maintaining a logged-in customer session;
- remembering privacy or cookie choices; and
- supporting technical functions required for pages to load and operate correctly.
Where a technology is genuinely required to provide a function you have requested, disabling it may prevent parts of the website such as basket, checkout or account access from working correctly.
Functional cookies
Functional technologies can be used to remember optional preferences or provide enhanced features.
Where these are not strictly necessary, they will be treated as optional and used in accordance with the applicable consent requirements.
Analytics
Where analytics technologies are enabled, they may help us understand matters such as:
- how many people visit the website;
- which pages are viewed;
- how visitors move through the website;
- how visitors arrived at the website; and
- whether parts of the customer journey can be improved.
Where permission is required for analytics technologies, they will only be used after the relevant choice has been made.
Marketing technologies
If we use advertising or marketing technologies, they may help measure advertising performance or understand whether somebody who visited an advertisement later used our website.
More privacy-intrusive tracking will not be treated as necessary merely because it is useful to our business. Where permission is required, the relevant technology will only be used after consent has been obtained.
Third-party content and services
Some website features may be provided by another organisation, for example payment services, embedded media, maps or other external functionality.
These providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies when their services are used.
Where those technologies are not necessary and require permission, they should remain inactive until the relevant permission has been given.
Consent and your choices
Where consent is required, it must be based on a clear choice rather than simply continuing to browse the website.
Non-essential cookies and similar technologies that require permission will not be treated as accepted merely because you have visited or continued using the website.
Strictly necessary technologies can be used without consent where the relevant legal exemption applies, but we still explain their use in this policy.
Changing your cookie choices
Where optional cookie controls are provided on the website, you can use them to change your preferences.
Withdrawing permission will affect future use of the relevant technologies. It does not necessarily remove information that was lawfully collected before your preference changed.
Browser settings
Most web browsers also allow you to inspect, block or delete cookies through the browser's privacy settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect how some parts of the website work. In particular, functions such as account login, basket and checkout may depend on necessary browser storage.
How long cookies last
Different cookies can remain on a device for different periods.
The duration used should be appropriate and proportionate to the purpose of the particular technology.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if the technologies used on the website, applicable law or our online services change.
The latest version will be published on this page and the date at the top will show when it was last updated.
Contact us
If you have a question about the use of cookies or personal information on Paragon Shading Direct, contact:
Paragon Shading Ltd
Email:
info@paragonshading.co.uk
Telephone:
0800 772 0709
For more information about how we use personal information, please see our Privacy Policy .
Want to know more?
Read our Privacy Policy for more information about how Paragon Shading Ltd handles personal information, or contact us if you have a privacy-related question.