Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 1 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Unique Shopping Limited (“Unique Shopping”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://uniqueshopping.org.

It explains what cookies are, why we use them, the types of cookies that may be placed on your device and how you can manage your preferences.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

1. About Us

Company Name: Unique Shopping Limited
Company Number: 14392405
Registered Office: Office 1359, 58 Peregrine Road, Ilford, England, IG6 3SZ
Head Office: 60 Bramble Crescent, Bodicote, Banbury, OX15 4SF, United Kingdom
Website: https://uniqueshopping.org
Email: contact@uniqueshopping.org
Customer Support: Wecare@uniqueshopping.org
Telephone: +44 1274 29 8435

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow websites to recognise a device and remember information about the visitor’s activity, preferences or previous interactions.

Cookies may help us:

• Keep the website secure
• Maintain your shopping basket
• Remember account sessions
• Store selected preferences
• Process checkout transactions
• Understand how visitors use the website
• Improve website performance
• Measure marketing effectiveness
• Provide more relevant content

Cookies do not normally contain enough information to identify you directly. However, cookie information may be combined with other data and treated as personal information under applicable law.

3. Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, we or our service providers may use similar technologies, including:

• Pixels
• Web beacons
• Tags
• Local storage
• Software development kits
• Device identifiers
• Tracking URLs
• Server logs

References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by Unique Shopping through our website.

They may support:

• Shopping-basket functionality
• Account login
• Checkout processes
• Website security
• Customer preferences
• Cookie-consent choices

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies are placed by service providers whose technology or content is integrated into our website.

These providers may include:

• Payment gateways
• Analytics providers
• Advertising platforms
• Social media services
• Customer-support tools
• Website security providers
• Embedded content providers

Third parties control their own cookies and may process information according to their respective privacy and cookie policies.

5. Session and Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies operate temporarily and are normally deleted when you close your browser.

They may be used to maintain:

• Shopping-basket contents
• Checkout progress
• Account sessions
• Website security

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

They may be used to remember:

• Cookie-consent choices
• Login preferences
• Language or currency settings
• Customer preferences
• Previous website visits
• Analytics information

6. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the website to function correctly and securely.

These cookies may be used to:

• Maintain shopping-basket contents
• Enable checkout
• Process orders
• Maintain secure account sessions
• Prevent fraud and unauthorised access
• Protect website security
• Balance website traffic
• Remember cookie-consent choices
• Provide services specifically requested by you

Because these cookies are necessary for website operation, they do not normally require consent under applicable law.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies through your browser may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

7. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices and provide improved features.

They may remember:

• Language preferences
• Currency selection
• Recently viewed products
• Saved products or favourites
• Account preferences
• Delivery location
• Display settings

If functional cookies are disabled, some personalised website features may not work properly.

Where required by law, functional cookies will be used only after you provide consent.

8. Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They may collect information about:

• Pages visited
• Time spent on pages
• Products viewed
• Links and buttons selected
• Referral sources
• Browser and device type
• General location
• Website errors
• Checkout progress
• Website performance

We use this information to improve navigation, product presentation, website speed, customer experience and business performance.

Analytics information is generally reviewed in aggregated form, but identifiers such as IP addresses or device information may still constitute personal information.

Where required by law, analytics cookies will be placed only after you provide consent.

9. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Advertising cookies may be used to:

• Measure marketing campaigns
• Understand advertisement performance
• Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
• Create audience groups
• Provide more relevant promotions
• Understand whether a visitor completed a purchase
• Support remarketing or interest-based advertising

These cookies may track activity across different websites, applications or devices.

Advertising cookies may be placed by us or by third-party advertising and social media providers.

We will request consent before using non-essential advertising cookies where required by law.

10. Payment and Fraud-Prevention Cookies

Payment gateways, banks, card networks and fraud-prevention providers may use cookies or similar technologies during checkout.

These technologies may be used to:

• Authenticate payments
• Detect fraudulent transactions
• Protect payment information
• Support security checks
• Maintain payment sessions
• Prevent unauthorised activity
• Comply with payment-security requirements

Some payment and security cookies may be strictly necessary to complete a transaction.

Payment providers control the information collected through their services and process it according to their own policies.

11. Shopping Basket and Ecommerce Cookies

Our ecommerce system may use cookies to:

• Add products to your basket
• Remember basket contents
• Update product quantities
• Apply discount codes
• Maintain checkout progress
• Connect your basket with an account
• Prevent basket and checkout errors
• Remember recently viewed products

Without these cookies, you may be unable to add products to your basket or complete a purchase.

12. Account and Authentication Cookies

If you create or access an account, cookies may be used to:

• Keep you signed in
• Verify account sessions
• Prevent unauthorised access
• Remember selected preferences
• Provide account-related features
• Protect against suspicious activity

You should sign out when using a shared or public device.

13. Customer Support Cookies

If our website includes live chat, contact forms, support widgets or automated customer-service tools, these services may use cookies to:

• Maintain support conversations
• Remember previous enquiries
• Route messages
• Prevent spam
• Improve customer support
• Provide requested assistance

Non-essential support cookies will be subject to consent where required.

14. Social Media and Embedded Content

Our website may include social media buttons, videos, maps or other embedded third-party content.

These services may place cookies or collect information about:

• Your device
• Your IP address
• The page you visited
• Your interaction with the embedded content
• Whether you are logged in to the third-party service

We do not control cookies placed by third-party platforms. You should review the relevant provider’s privacy and cookie information.

15. Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner or preference tool.

You may be able to:

• Accept all cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Select particular cookie categories
• Review more information
• Save your preferences

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for website operation.

We will not normally place non-essential cookies before receiving your consent where consent is legally required.

16. Withdrawing or Changing Consent

You may change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time.

You can do this through:

• The cookie-settings or privacy-preferences link on our website
• Your browser settings
• Device privacy settings
• Relevant third-party opt-out tools

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

After changing your preferences, you may need to refresh the website or delete existing cookies from your browser.

17. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to:

• View stored cookies
• Delete individual cookies
• Delete all cookies
• Block cookies from particular websites
• Block third-party cookies
• Block all cookies
• Receive a warning before cookies are placed

Browser controls vary depending on the provider and version. Please review the help or privacy section of your browser.

Common browsers include:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Opera

Blocking all cookies may prevent the website from working properly, particularly account, shopping-basket and checkout features.

18. Cookies on Mobile Devices

Mobile devices may allow you to manage cookies, advertising identifiers, tracking permissions and application data through the device settings.

Depending on your device, you may be able to:

• Limit advertising tracking
• Reset the advertising identifier
• Block cross-site tracking
• Clear browser data
• Control application permissions

Please review the privacy settings provided by your device manufacturer and mobile browser.

19. Cookie Retention

The period for which a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose.

Cookies may last for:

• The duration of a browsing session
• A few hours or days
• Several months
• Up to two years in certain cases
• Until you delete them manually

Cookie-consent records may be retained for a reasonable period to demonstrate and remember your preferences.

Third-party providers determine the duration of their own cookies.

20. Legal Basis for Using Cookies

We may rely on the following legal bases:

Necessary Website Operation

Strictly necessary cookies are used where required to provide website features, maintain security or deliver a service requested by you.

Consent

We rely on consent for non-essential analytics, functional, advertising and marketing cookies where required by law.

Legitimate Interests

In limited circumstances, we may rely on legitimate interests for security, fraud prevention, service administration or basic website measurement where permitted by law and where your rights do not override those interests.

21. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies may collect:

• IP address
• Device identifiers
• Browser type
• Operating system
• General location
• Website activity
• Product and page views
• Referral source
• Account or session identifiers
• Shopping-basket activity
• Transaction and checkout status
• Marketing interaction information

We process this information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

22. International Data Transfers

Some cookie and technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where applicable, we use or require appropriate international data-transfer safeguards, which may include:

• UK adequacy regulations
• The UK International Data Transfer Agreement
• The UK Addendum to approved contractual clauses
• Other legally recognised safeguards

Third-party providers may also rely on their own legally recognised transfer mechanisms.

23. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

There is currently no universally accepted technical standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals. Our website may therefore not respond consistently to these signals.

You can use our cookie-preference tool or browser settings to manage tracking choices.

24. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect:

• Changes to the cookies we use
• New website features
• Changes to service providers
• Legal or regulatory developments
• Changes to our business practices

The updated policy will be published on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

We may request renewed consent where changes materially affect the use of non-essential cookies.

25. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, contact us at:

Unique Shopping Limited
Office 1359, 58 Peregrine Road
Ilford, England, IG6 3SZ
United Kingdom

Head Office: 60 Bramble Crescent, Bodicote, Banbury, OX15 4SF, United Kingdom
Email: contact@uniqueshopping.org
Customer Support: Wecare@uniqueshopping.org
Telephone: +44 1274 29 8435
Website: https://uniqueshopping.org