1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They can help a website remember information about your visit, such as preferences, form security choices, session information or website usage.
2. Why we use cookies
Solar Store Cheshire may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the website secure and working correctly
- Remember your cookie preference
- Protect enquiry forms from spam and abuse
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Improve our content, layout and website performance
- Support future advertising or remarketing activity, where consent has been given
3. Types of cookies we may use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are needed for the website to work properly. They may support security, form protection, page loading, cookie preference storage and essential website functions.
Preference cookies
These cookies remember choices you make, such as whether you accepted or declined cookies.
Analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages are viewed and how users interact with the site. Analytics cookies should only be used where consent has been given.
Marketing cookies
These cookies may be used to deliver more relevant content or measure advertising performance. Marketing cookies should only be used where consent has been given.
4. Cookies and services used on this website
The website may use the following types of services:
- Cookie preference storage: used to remember whether you accepted or declined cookies.
- Web3Forms: used to process website enquiry form submissions.
- hCaptcha: used to protect forms from spam and automated abuse.
- Google Analytics or similar analytics tools: only if added and only after cookie consent where required.
- Advertising or tracking pixels: only if added and only after cookie consent where required.
5. Consent
When you first visit the website, you may see a cookie banner. You can choose to accept all cookies or decline non-essential cookies.
If you click “Accept All”, you consent to the use of optional cookies such as analytics or marketing cookies where these are active on the site. If you click “Decline”, only essential cookies and necessary technologies should be used.
6. How to change your cookie choice
You can change your cookie choice by using the “Cookie settings” button on the website or by clearing cookies in your browser.
You can also use your browser settings to delete cookies, block cookies, block third-party cookies or clear cookies when closing the browser.
7. Third-party cookies
Some cookies or similar technologies may be set by third-party services used on the website, such as form protection, analytics, hosting or advertising services.
These third parties may process technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, interaction data or anti-spam signals, depending on the service used.
8. Updates to this cookie policy
We may update this cookie policy if our website changes, if new cookies or tracking tools are added, or if legal requirements change.
The latest version will be published on this page.
9. Contact
For questions about this cookie policy, contact Solar Store Cheshire:
- Email: johnfwalsh@solarstore.biz
- Phone: +44 7990 945510