Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Celtic Knitwear Company uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.

This website is operated by Celtic Shops (Trefriw) Limited, trading as Celtic Knitwear Company.

Company number: 01384607
Registered office: 7 Castle Street, Conwy, Wales, LL32 8AY
Email: celticknitwear@gmail.com
Telephone: 01492 572999

1. What Are Cookies?

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

They can be used to make a website work, remember choices you make, maintain a shopping basket, improve security, understand how visitors use a website and, where applicable, support marketing or advertising.

Similar technologies, such as local storage, tracking pixels and other browser storage technologies, may also be used for related purposes.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to support the operation of the Celtic Knitwear Company website and online shop.

Depending on the services enabled on the website, cookies may be used to:

• keep the website secure;
• maintain your shopping basket and checkout session;
• remember choices or preferences;
• enable account and login functionality;
• understand how visitors use the website;
• measure website performance;
• support embedded third-party services;
• support marketing or advertising where you have given the required consent.

Under UK rules, users must be given clear information about cookies and, in most cases, consent must be obtained before non-essential cookies are stored or accessed. Cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user can generally be used without prior consent.

3. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to function properly or to provide a service that you have requested.

These may include cookies used for:

• website and account security;
• fraud prevention;
• maintaining a shopping basket;
• processing checkout;
• remembering information during an online transaction;
• maintaining a logged-in session;
• recording your cookie preferences.

Because these cookies are necessary for services you request, consent is not normally required before they are used.

Disabling these cookies may prevent parts of the website or online shop from working correctly.

4. Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, for example which pages are visited and how users navigate through the site.

These cookies may collect information such as:

• pages visited;
• approximate visit duration;
• referring website;
• device or browser information;
• general interaction with the website.

Analytics cookies are not treated as strictly necessary simply because they are useful to the website operator, so where consent is legally required they should not be set until the user has made an appropriate choice.

If analytics services are enabled on this website, they will be controlled through the cookie consent mechanism where required.

5. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may be used to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

For example, they may remember:

• display preferences;
• previously selected options;
• language or regional settings;
• other preferences that improve your experience of the website.

Where a functional cookie is not strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested, it will only be used in accordance with the applicable consent requirements.

6. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing or advertising cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising or to show more relevant content on other websites.

These cookies may be placed by us or by third-party advertising or social-media services.

Where these cookies are used, they will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been obtained.

Advertising cookies are not considered strictly necessary for providing the website service.

7. Third-Party Cookies

Some services used on this website may place their own cookies or use similar technologies.

These may include, depending on the services currently enabled:

• payment providers;
• website analytics providers;
• spam-prevention and security services;
• embedded maps;
• video or social-media services;
• email marketing or newsletter services.

Third-party providers are responsible for the cookies they set and may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

We aim to configure third-party services so that non-essential cookies are not activated until the appropriate consent has been obtained where required.

8. WooCommerce and Shopping Cookies

Because this website uses WooCommerce to provide online shopping functionality, essential cookies may be used to support functions such as:

• remembering products placed in your basket;
• identifying when basket contents change;
• maintaining your shopping session;
• supporting checkout and account functionality.

Cookies used solely to provide shopping functions requested by the user are generally treated as strictly necessary.

9. Cookie Consent and Your Choices

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

Where consent is required, you should be able to choose whether to allow or reject non-essential cookies.

You can change your cookie preferences later using the cookie settings facility provided on the website, where available.

Consent must involve a clear positive choice. Simply continuing to browse a website is not sufficient consent for non-essential cookies.

10. Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their settings.

You can usually:

• delete existing cookies;
• block all cookies;
• block cookies from particular websites;
• configure how cookies are handled;
• receive a warning when a website attempts to set a cookie.

Please be aware that blocking all cookies may affect the operation of the website, particularly shopping basket, checkout, login and preference functions.

11. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies — which are normally removed when you close your browser; or

Persistent cookies — which remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The precise duration depends on the purpose of the cookie and the service that places it.

Where practical, the cookie consent tool used on this website may provide more detailed information about individual cookies and their duration.

12. Personal Data and Cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal data.

Where personal data is processed, we handle it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection law.

For more information about how we collect, use and protect personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.

13. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:

• changes to the website;
• changes to the cookies or services we use;
• changes in legal or regulatory requirements.

The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on this website, please contact:

Celtic Knitwear Company
Celtic Shops (Trefriw) Limited
7 Castle Street
Conwy
Wales
LL32 8AY

Email: celticknitwear@gmail.com
Telephone: 01492 572999