Cookies

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. It’s how a site remembers that the basket you filled a minute ago is yours, or that you’re still signed in three pages later. Some are unavoidable if the site is going to work at all. Others are optional, and those ones only run if you say yes.

This page sets out which is which. For the wider picture of what we do with your information, see our privacy policy.

The short version

We use cookies to run the basket, keep you signed in and take payment. We also use Google Analytics to see how the site is being used, and that one is entirely your choice. We don’t use advertising or retargeting cookies, and nothing here follows you around other websites.

Cookies that have to be there

These make the site function. They don’t need your permission, because without them there’s no basket and no checkout. They don’t tell us who you are as a person — they hold references and session identifiers, not names.

Cookie	What it does	How long
woocommerce_cart_hash	Tells the site the contents of your basket have changed, so the header count stays right	Until you close the browser
woocommerce_items_in_cart	Records that there’s something in your basket	Until you close the browser
wp_woocommerce_session_…	Links your browser to your basket and checkout details on our server	2 days
wordpress_logged_in_…	Keeps you signed in to your account as you move between pages	Until you close the browser, or 14 days if you ticked “remember me”
wp-settings-…	Remembers display preferences for signed-in users	1 year
cookieyes-consent	Remembers which cookies you agreed to, so you’re not asked on every visit	1 year

Payment

Card payments are handled by Stripe, and Stripe sets its own cookies on the checkout page to spot fraudulent activity — __stripe_mid, which lasts a year, and __stripe_sid, which lasts half an hour. These count as necessary. Taking card payments without fraud checks isn’t something we’re prepared to do, and Stripe wouldn’t let us anyway.

Analytics, if you agree to it

Google Analytics tells us which pages people actually use, where they give up, and whether the search is finding things. It’s how we work out what to fix. It’s genuinely optional and the site works exactly the same if you decline.

Cookie	What it does	How long
_ga	Tells one browser apart from another, so a repeat visit isn’t counted as a new person	2 years
_ga_…	Keeps track of a single visit for Google Analytics	2 years

These don’t run at all unless you accept them. We keep the analytics data for fourteen months and then it goes.

What we don’t do

No advertising cookies, no retargeting pixels, no social media trackers, and nothing that builds a profile of you to sell on. If that changes we’ll say so on this page and ask you again rather than quietly switch it on.

Worth knowing too: the theme this site runs on sets no cookies of its own, and your saved items are stored against your account rather than in your browser — which is why they’re still there when you sign in from a different machine.

Changing your mind

You chose when the banner first appeared, but that isn’t binding. Use the cookie settings link in the footer of any page to change your choices, at any time, as often as you like. Turning analytics off stops it immediately.

Turning cookies off in your browser

Every browser lets you block or delete cookies, usually under settings, then privacy. Blocking optional cookies is fine and won’t affect anything you can see.

Blocking all of them is a different matter. The basket won’t hold anything, you won’t stay signed in, and you won’t be able to check out. That’s not us being awkward — there’s no way to remember a basket without something remembering it. If you’d rather not have cookies at all, call the office on 0151 270 2904 and we’ll take the order over the phone.

Getting in touch

Questions about any of this go to info@wrwright.co.uk or 0151 270 2904. If you want the detail on what we hold and why, that’s in the privacy policy.