What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. These files are typically used to hold your user preferences, to store important data as you browse the website (such as the contents of your shopping cart), or to find out if you have browsed the website before. As these files can only store small amounts of data there is nothing dangerous about the files themselves, but some companies may use the information to track what other websites you have visited or to build a profile of your general online behaviour. Marilyn and Melrose do not involve themselves in these activities. Cookies we use don’t collect or store any sensitive information such as your name, address or payment card information.
What types of cookies are there?
Marilyn and Melrose, like most e-commerce websites, uses a variety of cookies to help ensure that our website functions correctly and to provide information on how to improve our pages and marketing. Our use of cookies can be broken down into four main categories:
Necessary & Functional Cookies: Necessary cookies are essential to make a website work and enable features that users have specifically asked for. Without these cookies, these features of the website could not operate properly. For example, these cookies remember the contents of your shopping cart or whether you are logged in as you browse the website, and to record the items that you have placed in your wish-list so that you can refer back to them. Functional cookies automatically remember preferences that users have previously made in order to enhance their experience next time they visit a website. We also work with a specialist email company called Mailchimp to provide a sign up form for which you can sign up to our newsletter. This popup may set a cookie called _AVESTA_ENVIRONMENT which is only used to determine that the popup has been shown to a customer.
Statistics Cookies. Statistic cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. The data gathered allows us to check how many people visited our pages, how many visitors have been to our website previously, which links people have clicked most often on our pages, etc. It also helps us identify problems with our pages and advise on improvements that can be made to make them easier to use. All the information collected is anonymous and no personal data is recorded. We use Google Analytics for this purpose.
Marketing Cookies. We use cookies to provide a remarketing service through Google Ads and Facebook, which allows us to advertise specifically to internet users that have previously visited our website and to highlight products and services that we believe, may be of interest to them. This advertising method allows us to show adverts to users with different interests and demographics based on the information that Google or Facebook provide.
Personalisation. We use cookies to store information about your site preferences and to personalise the website for you so that we can show you products you might like based on the products you’ve looked at before.
We use cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer that websites can interact with, allowing us to keep track of your website session. The Marilyn & Melrose website currently uses the following types of cookies:
- Session and checkout cookies – to store the contents of your basket, retrieve your data if logged into your account, and to allow us to process your order
- Site analytics cookies – to measure and analyse how you interact with our website, allowing us to improve our customer experience.
By using our website, you agree to us placing these cookies on your device, and accessing them when you visit us in future.
You can disable cookies using your web browser – see your browser’s ‘help’ section for details of how to do this. Please note that if you do disable cookies, you will be unable to place any orders using this website.
