Cookies

Essential — cannot be switched off

These three are strictly necessary to provide a service you asked for, so under regulation 6(4) of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 they do not require consent. They carry no analytics and are not shared with anyone.

Optional — only if you accept

One analytics cookie that counts visits and which pages were read, in aggregate, so we can tell whether the site works. It is not set unless you press Accept all, it does not follow you to other sites, and it is not used to build a profile.

Advertising

None. There are no advertising cookies on this site, no pixels, no conversion tags and no third-party trackers of any kind. There is nothing here to opt out of because nothing was set.

Yes, and deliberately so. The Reject all button is the same size, the same shape, the same colour and the same weight as Accept all, sits beside it in the same row, and neither is styled to be reached for first. Nothing non-essential is set before you choose, and nothing is pre-ticked.

The Information Commissioner’s Office expects a reject control to be as prominent and as easy to use as an accept control. A cookie banner that hides the refusal behind a third screen is a dark pattern, and it is not one we are prepared to use.

Changed your mind? Clear the choice here and the bar comes back on the next page.

You can, and every major browser lets you refuse or delete cookies. Blocking the essential three means you will not be able to stay signed in, so the tool will not work — but the whole of the public site, including the four causes and the distribution table, will read perfectly well.

We honour the Global Privacy Control signal where a browser sends one, and treat it as a refusal of anything optional.

The payment page configured for this deployment will set its own cookies while you are on it, for fraud prevention. That is unavoidable in a card payment and applies only when you are actually paying.

Nothing else. There is no embedded video, no social widget, no comment system and no chat box, which between them account for most of the third-party cookies on the rest of the web.

What is done with the data itself is set out in the privacy policy, and questions go to support@simplyhosieryonline.shop.