Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Like most websites, Buy On The Weekly LTD’s digital platforms, including our websites and applications, utilise cookies and comparable technologies to gather data. When navigating through our site, cookies are compact data files stored on your computer or other devices (like smartphones or tablets). Their primary function is to ‘remember’ your device’s interactions with our websites.

The deployment of cookies is crucial for the seamless functioning of our websites, facilitating a smoother online shopping experience for you. Additionally, cookies play a significant role in customising the products and services presented and promoted to you within our digital environments and beyond.

Information Collected

Buy On The Weekly LTD’s cookies gather data on browsing and purchasing activities when you visit our website using the same computer or device. This encompasses details such as the pages you have explored, the products you have acquired, and your navigational path through our website. This information enables us to understand your preferences and how you interact with our site, allowing us to offer a more tailored shopping experience.

It’s important to note that while we use cookies to observe your browsing and purchasing behaviour, we do not use them to collect or record personal information such as your name, address, or other contact details. Our use of cookies focuses on enhancing our website’s functionality and personalising the service we provide to you without compromising your privacy.

How Are Cookies Managed?

The cookies placed on your computer or other devices when you visit Buy On The Weekly LTD’s websites are managed and designed by:

Buy On The Weekly LTD, or our behalf, and are essential for enabling functionalities such as making purchases on our website; Third parties who collaborate with us in marketing initiatives and Third parties are responsible for broadcasting web banner advertisements for Buy On The Weekly LTD. These cookies are instrumental in the operation of our websites, from facilitating the checkout process to ensuring that the marketing content and advertisements you see are relevant and tailored to your interests. We aim to enhance your experience on our website and support our marketing efforts without intruding on your privacy.

What Are Cookies Used For?

Cookies serve several vital functions, all aimed at enhancing and personalising your experience on Buy On The Weekly LTD’s digital platforms:

Recollection of Information: They remember details about you to save you from re-entering the same information each time you visit.
Seamless Access: Cookies keep you logged in across different devices for a more convenient browsing experience.
Service Improvement: By analysing how our services are utilised, cookies assist us in making informed enhancements to serve your needs better.
Personalisation: Our websites and Apps are tailored to your preferences and settings, thanks to cookies remembering your choices.
Engagement Tracking: Cookies help us determine the effectiveness of our emails, including whether you have opened and deemed them valuable.
These uses are central to our commitment to providing a responsive, user-centric service, allowing us to refine our offerings and ensure you enjoy a tailored browsing and shopping experience.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are indispensable for the functionality of a website. They encompass cookies that:

Enable users to log into secure sections of a website.
Facilitate the use of a shopping cart.
Allow for the utilisation of e-billing services.
Typically, these cookies are session-based, meaning they expire and are deleted once you close your browser.
However, this is not always the case, as some may have different durations depending on their specific purpose. These cookies do not require consent and are automatically set upon visiting Buy On The Weekly LTD’s websites, ensuring essential features and secure services are accessible to you, enhancing your overall experience on our site.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies enhance the functionality and user experience on Buy On The Weekly LTD’s digital platforms. Their essential functions include:

Visitor Recognition: They help us identify and count the number of visitors to our site, enabling us to understand user engagement levels.
Navigation Insights: By tracking how visitors navigate through our website, these cookies allow us to discern user patterns and preferences. This information is invaluable in identifying areas of our site that users frequent most and those they find challenging to use.
Website Optimisation: Armed with the insights gathered, we can refine our website’s structure, content, and navigation, ensuring that you can find what you’re looking for with ease and efficiency.
Typically, performance cookies are primarily first-party cookies, originating from Buy On The Weekly LTD, and consist of both session cookies, which expire once you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a set period. We may occasionally employ third-party services and specialised software to enhance our website’s performance, which may use first or third-party cookies.

Our commitment to improving our website’s performance is continuous, and by utilising performance cookies, we aim to provide you with a smoother, more intuitive browsing experience.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies create a personalised and cohesive experience on Buy On The Weekly LTD’s websites. They serve several important purposes:

User Recognition: When you return to our website, these cookies help us recognise you as a previous visitor, streamlining your experience.
Content Personalisation: By identifying you, we can tailor the content displayed, ensuring it aligns with your interests and preferences.
Preference Memorisation: These cookies remember your settings and preferences, such as your preferred language or the region you are in, making your interactions with our site more convenient and personalised. Typically, functionality cookies combine first-party cookies, set by Buy On The Weekly LTD, and third-party cookies. They can be either session cookies, which are deleted once you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a predetermined period.
The integration of functionality cookies aims to provide you with a seamless, tailored browsing experience, ensuring that our website responds to your individual needs and preferences.

Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies plays a pivotal role in the customisation and effectiveness of online advertising, with key features as follows:

User Activity Tracking: These cookies document your visit to Buy On The Weekly LTD’s website, including the pages you view and the links you click on. This enables us to understand your interests and tailor our content and advertising accordingly.
Cross-Website Monitoring: When set by third parties, such as advertising technology providers, targeting cookies may also track your activity across various websites. This broader tracking helps create detailed profiles of your online behaviour, preferences, and interests.
Ad Personalisation: The insights gained from tracking cookies are primarily used to present you with advertisements that are most relevant to your interests. By understanding your online behaviour, advertisers can serve you with more targeted and pertinent ads.
Mostly, targeting cookies are third-party cookies due to their association with advertising networks that monitor activity across multiple websites. They are predominantly persistent cookies, remaining on your device for an extended period to keep track of your preferences and online activities over time.

Targeting cookies aims to enhance your online experience by providing advertising content that is more aligned with your interests and browsing habits, making the adverts you see more relevant and engaging.

How To Manage My Cookies

Managing your cookie preferences is essential to controlling your online experience on Buy On The Weekly LTD’s websites. Here’s how you can adjust your settings:

Preference Centre: Visit our Preference Centre, accessible through our website, where you can modify your Cookie Settings. This allows you to tailor which types of cookies you consent to and which ones you prefer to disable.

Please be mindful of the following considerations when managing your cookies:

Disabling Cookies: If you decide to withdraw your consent for a specific category of cookies, please note that this action will not remove existing cookies from your device. Instead, it will prevent those cookies from being used in the future. To remove cookies that have already been placed on your device, you will need to delete them manually through your browser settings.

By actively managing your cookie preferences, you can enhance your browsing experience, ensuring that the data collected is in line with your comfort level and privacy expectations.

How to Disable Cookies in Your Browser

Disabling cookies is a straightforward process that varies slightly depending on your web browser. Below are instructions for adjusting cookie settings in some of the most popular web browsers:

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Navigate to the menu “Tools”, then select “Internet Options”.
Click on the “Privacy” tab.
Adjust the settings to your preference to manage cookie handling.

For Google Chrome:
Open Settings, then go to “Advanced”.
Under “Privacy and security,” click on “Content settings”.
Select “Cookies” and adjust your settings as needed.

For Safari (macOS):
Open Safari and choose Preferences, then go to the Privacy tab.
Click on “Manage Website Data” to see and remove stored data or “Block all cookies” to disable cookies.

For Mozilla Firefox:
Click on the menu “Tools” then “Options”.
Navigate to the “Privacy & Security” section.
Under “Cookies and Site Data,” you can choose to block cookies or manage settings for specific sites.

For Opera (version 6.0 and later):
Navigate to Files > Preferences in the menu. Go to the Privacy section to manage your cookie preferences. Remember, disabling cookies may impact your user experience on some websites, as many rely on cookies for basic functionalities like keeping you logged in or retaining items in your shopping cart. Always consider the trade-offs before deciding to block cookies altogether.

What Happens When Cookies Are Disabled

The impact of disabling cookies on your web experience varies depending on the types of cookies you choose to block. However, as a general guideline:

If you disable third-party cookies, Your interaction with our website, Buy On The Weekly LTD, should largely remain unaffected. Third-party cookies are typically used for advertising and tracking across websites, so blocking these cookies might result in less personalised advertising but won’t prevent you from making purchases on our sites.

If you disable all cookies, This action can significantly affect the functionality of our website and many others. Essential features like logging in, adding items to your shopping cart, and completing purchases rely on cookies to remember your choices and preferences during your visit. Without cookies, these processes can be disrupted, potentially preventing you from completing a purchase on our sites.

It’s crucial to consider the balance between privacy and functionality when managing your cookie settings, as cookies play a vital role in enabling a smooth, personalised web browsing experience.

Direct Marketing Customer Charter at Buy On The Weekly LTD

When you purchase a product or service from us, either online or in-store, or when you create an account with Buy On The Weekly LTD, we collect personal information about you. This information lets us inform you about our latest products, services, and offers through various channels such as posts, emails, text messages, online platforms, social media, and push notifications via our apps.

We commit to using your personal information for marketing purposes only when we have a legal basis to do so. This could be with your explicit consent or under the principle of ‘legitimate interest’, where we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. We guarantee to offer you the opportunity to opt out of marketing communications at the point of collecting your contact details and within every marketing message thereafter.

Should you purchase any new products or services from us in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business, we may request you to confirm or update your marketing preferences.

The personal information we hold about you comprises what you have shared with us and data we collect when you use our services or from third parties we collaborate with.

Our Direct Marketing Promise to You:

We will always seek your active consent for direct marketing messages unless we contact you about our similar products during a sale, offering you the chance to opt-out.
Our store and contact centre teams will inform you of any further use of your contact details for direct marketing upon purchase.
We will provide you with options for how you wish to receive marketing communications from us.
We will ensure the marketing is relevant to the products or services you initially consented to.
Before passing your details to third parties for marketing, we will seek your consent and clearly name those companies.
We will document the acquisition of your consent for marketing and detail its scope
Consent language will be apparent, easily understandable, and distinct from other information.
We will avoid confusing language and ensure clarity in our marketing communications
We will check your details against preference services for telephone and postal marketing to respect your choices.
An opt-out option will be clearly presented in every marketing message when we collect your details.
We will promptly action your request to stop receiving marketing communications.
An internal suppression file will be maintained to record customers’ preferences against receiving marketing through specific channels.
Legitimate interests will underpin certain marketing activities, with clear opt-out instructions provided. We will ensure deceased individuals’ data is not used for marketing.
Direct marketing will only be sent to individuals active or purchasing within the last three years.
Procedures are in place for addressing inaccuracies and complaints.
We will cooperate with any ICO investigations regarding our marketing activities.

For Bought-In Lists:

We will use lists with explicit opt-in consent naming us for texts, emails, or recorded calls.
Information from these lists will be used solely for marketing purposes.
We will remove any excessive or irrelevant personal information.
Names from bought-in lists will be checked against our no-contact list.
We will assess the reliability of list data through sampling.
Our communications will include clear identification of our company.
We will inform you about the source of your details.
A privacy notice will be provided when practical.
We will ensure due diligence in selecting and working with data suppliers to comply with GDPR.
Adequate contractual terms will be established with data suppliers to ensure fair and compliant data usage. Buy On The Weekly LTD is committed to responsible and respectful direct marketing practices, prioritising your preferences and privacy.