Cookie Policy
Cookies help websites remember certain details and work as expected. This policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used on the Watermill Italian Kitchen website and how you can manage your preferences.
Essential cookies may be used where they are necessary to provide a website feature you request or to keep the website secure. Non-essential cookies, including analytics or advertising cookies, should only be placed where the required consent has been obtained.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They can help a website remember preferences, maintain a session or understand how visitors use its pages.
Similar technologies, such as local storage or tracking pixels, may also be used for certain functions. In this policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as cookies unless a distinction is needed.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Necessary Cookies
These support core website functions, security, session management and the storage of your cookie preferences. They are used where necessary for the website or a service you have requested.
Functional Cookies
Where enabled, these remember choices such as language or other display preferences to make future visits more convenient. They are used with consent where required.
Analytics Cookies
If analytics tools are installed, these may help us understand page visits, visitor journeys and general website performance. They are used only after the required consent.
Marketing Cookies
If marketing tools are used, these may help measure campaigns or deliver relevant promotional content. They are not placed without the required consent.
The exact cookies present on the website depend on the features, plugins and third-party services currently in use. The categories above describe possible uses and do not mean that every category is necessarily active.
Why We Use Cookies
Depending on the tools enabled on our website, cookies may help us to:
- Keep essential website features working correctly.
- Remember your cookie consent choices.
- Improve website security and help identify technical problems.
- Understand general patterns of website use where analytics consent has been given.
- Measure marketing activity where relevant tools are enabled and consent has been provided.
We aim to use cookies in a way that is appropriate to the function they provide and the preferences you have selected.
How Long Cookies Remain
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
- Session cookies: normally expire when the browser session ends.
- Consent cookies: may retain your preference for up to 6 months before it is requested again, subject to the actual consent tool settings and applicable requirements.
- Other cookies: their expiry depends on the cookie’s purpose and the settings of the service that places it.
The actual duration of each cookie should be checked against the website’s current cookie configuration. You can also remove cookies through your browser settings.
Third-Party Cookies
Some website features may rely on services provided by other organisations, such as website analytics, embedded maps or external media. If these services place cookies or use similar technologies, their processing may also be governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.
Where third-party technologies are not essential, they should remain inactive until the required consent has been obtained. The providers involved will depend on the tools actually installed and enabled on the website.
Managing Your Preferences
You can manage optional cookies through the cookie preference controls provided on the website, where available. You can accept or reject non-essential cookie categories and revisit your choice if a preference control is available.
You can also use your browser settings to view, block or delete cookies. Blocking essential cookies may affect certain website features or prevent some functions from working properly.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn. It should, however, prevent further use of the relevant non-essential cookies as required by the applicable rules.
Your Privacy
Information collected through cookies may sometimes be linked to other information about your use of the website. Where that information identifies you or relates to you as an identifiable individual, we handle it in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
For more information about how personal information is collected, used, stored and protected, please read our Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy if our website features, cookie technologies or legal requirements change. The latest version will be made available on this page.