Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Bespoke Car Garages may use cookies and similar storage or access technologies when you visit bespokecargarages.co.uk.
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Cookies are small pieces of information that can be stored on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website.
They can be used for purposes such as keeping a website secure, remembering choices, maintaining a session or understanding how a website is being used.
Similar technologies can perform related functions without necessarily using a traditional cookie. This policy therefore also applies, where relevant, to technologies such as local storage, scripts, tags and similar storage or access technologies.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website can store on your device and read again during the same visit or on a later visit.
Cookies can perform several different functions. For example, they may help a website maintain a session, remember a setting, improve security or gather information about how visitors use the website.
Cookies may be temporary and disappear when the browser is closed, or they may remain on the device for a defined period.
Similar Technologies
Privacy rules do not apply only to traditional cookies.
Websites can use other technologies that store information on a device or access information already stored on it.
Depending on the website configuration, these could include:
- Browser or local storage.
- Scripts and tags.
- Tracking pixels.
- Session identifiers.
- Other storage and access technologies.
References to cookies in this policy include similar technologies where the same rules apply.
Categories of Technology
The technologies used by a website can be grouped according to what they are intended to do.
Technologies required to provide a requested website function, maintain essential security or allow the website to operate properly.
Technologies used solely to collect statistical information about how the website is used and to help improve the service, where the applicable legal requirements are satisfied.
Technologies that may remember choices affecting how a website appears or functions for a particular user.
Technologies used for advertising, profiling, remarketing or similar non-essential tracking purposes. These require the appropriate user choice before use.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some storage or access may be necessary for a website or service to operate properly.
This can include technology needed for website security, maintaining an essential session or remembering a privacy choice.
Where a technology is genuinely strictly necessary to provide a service that you have requested, consent may not be required for that particular purpose.
We will still aim to provide clear information about relevant technology used by the website.
Statistical Technologies
Some technology may be used to understand how visitors use the website, for example which pages are visited and how the website performs.
UK rules provide an exception for certain storage and access carried out solely for qualifying statistical purposes, subject to specific conditions.
Where this exception is relied upon, users must be given a simple and free means of objecting and the information must not be used for unrelated purposes such as advertising.
Where a statistical or analytics technology does not meet an applicable exception, it will require the appropriate consent before being used.
Marketing and Advertising
Marketing technologies can be used to track activity, measure advertising, build profiles or deliver targeted advertising.
These activities are not treated as automatically necessary merely because they may be useful to the website operator.
If Bespoke Car Garages introduces advertising, remarketing or similar non-exempt tracking technologies, they will only be activated where the required user choice has been obtained.
Current Website Technologies
The exact cookie name generated by the website can depend on the Joomla configuration, active extensions and services being used.
The following table explains the principal types of website technology that may be present.
| Type | Purpose | Typical Duration | Choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website session | Supports essential Joomla website functionality and session management where required. | Usually session-based or limited duration, depending on configuration. | May be strictly necessary. |
| Security | Helps protect the website, forms, sessions or infrastructure from misuse and security threats. | Depends on the technology used. | May be strictly necessary. |
| Cookie preference | Remembers the privacy or cookie choices made by a visitor. | Persistent for a reasonable preference period. | Needed to remember your choice. |
| Statistical / analytics | May help understand website traffic and usage where analytics are enabled. | Depends on the analytics service and configuration. | Consent or an applicable statistical exception, depending on how it is configured and used. |
| Marketing / advertising | Advertising measurement, profiling, remarketing or similar tracking if such services are introduced. | Depends on the third-party service. | Requires the appropriate consent where no exemption applies. |
This information should be reviewed whenever new website extensions, analytics tools, embedded content or marketing technologies are introduced.
Your Cookie Choices
Where consent is required, non-essential technologies should not be activated before you make the relevant choice.
Where the website relies on an applicable exception that requires users to be able to object, a simple means of making that objection should be available.
Accepting optional technologies should be a genuine choice rather than something assumed simply because you continued browsing the website.
Where consent has been given, it should also be possible to change or withdraw that choice.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Most modern browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their privacy or security settings.
Depending on the browser, you may be able to:
- Delete existing cookies.
- Block all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Clear cookies when the browser closes.
- Control cookie permissions for individual websites.
Blocking all cookies or related storage may affect website functions that rely on genuinely necessary session or security technology.
Third-Party Services
Some website features may rely on services supplied by other organisations.
If third-party analytics, embedded media, maps, advertising services or similar technology are added, those providers may set or access information on your device.
The relevant provider may also process information in accordance with its own privacy information.
Non-essential third-party technology should be handled through the appropriate website consent or objection mechanism before it is activated where required.
WhatsApp Links
This website includes links that allow visitors to contact Bespoke Car Garages through WhatsApp.
Simply displaying a link does not necessarily mean that WhatsApp technology is embedded into the website itself. However, once you follow the link and use WhatsApp, you are using a service operated by a separate provider.
That provider may use cookies or similar technology in accordance with its own policies and platform settings.
Changes to This Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated if the website's technology, extensions, analytics tools or legal requirements change.
The latest version will be published on this page and the date at the top will be updated where appropriate.
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