Cookie Policy

Cookies are small encrypted text files that are stored on your computer or other devices when visiting a website. They help us to make your shopping experience with us more efficient.

We use cookies to:

• - Ensure the website operates effectively from a technical perspective, including online transactions.
• - Assist with The Collector's Boutique marketing, including banner advertising.
• - To enable The Collector's Boutique to collect certain, anonymous and non-personal information on the shopping habits of our customers, including pages viewed.
• - To track transactions where visitors have come from third party sites, usually through our affiliate network.
• - We will never store your personal or payment information through the use of cookies.

We do not use cookies to:

• - Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• - Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• - Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
   

You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. If you decline to accept a cookie, some web pages may not function properly or you may not be permitted to access certain services offered on the website.

First and third-party cookies

Thecollectorsboutique.com uses two main types of cookies - first party and third-party. First-party cookies are cookies that Thecollectorsboutique.com uses and third-party cookies are those that have been placed by our business partners, including social media sites and search engines.

Our Own Cookies

Make our website work as you would expect

• - Save you having to login every time you visit the site
• - Remember your settings during and between visits
• - Improve the speed and security of the site
• - Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• - Personalise our site to you, to help you get what you need faster
• - Continuously improve our website for you
• - Make our marketing more efficient

Third Party Cookies

We do not have access or control over the cookies placed on our website by third parties and use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. Cookies placed by third parties serve different purposes including performance, functionality or targeting cookies. To disable or reject third party cookies you must go to the relevant third party’s website. Our site includes the following third party cookies:

• - Google - Privacy Policy

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Payment Options Cookies

We give our customers the possibility to process their payments with Paypal. This site sets cookies to ensure your security and privacy

• - Paypal - Privacy Policy

You can easily "Like" or share our content on social media pages including Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. We have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

• - Facebook - Privacy Policy
• - Twitter - Privacy Policy
• - Pinterest - Privacy Policy

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called "analytics" programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:

• - Google Analytics - Privacy Policy

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, our advertising partners nor third party advertisers can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.

You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

We use:

• - Google Adwords - Privacy Policy

For more information on cookies and how to manage their settings, we recommend that you visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please be assured that cookies do not hold personally identifiable information. Any sensitive information we do hold about you is completely confidential and we will never sell your details on to any third party.