Definition
Cookies are small text files that are stored within your internet browser by the websites that you visit. In a similar way to many other websites, our websites www.treehuggersco-op.com and shop.treehuggersco-op.com place cookies on your computer and other devices to understand more about your visit and help us to enhance your experience.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are used for various aspects of functionality such as keeping track of the items in your shopping bag, learning more about how you arrived at our Websites and to store your preferences so you don’t have to enter them each time you visit. See below for the types of cookies we use and the functionality they support.
Essential Cookies
These are cookies that our Websites need in order to function and if they are not accepted by you, parts of the sites won’t be usable. Examples of where these cookies are used include to store how many items are in your shopping bag, to anonymously determine when you are signed in, and to determine which currency we should use based on your preferred delivery location when displaying prices to you.
Preference Cookies
These are cookies we use to remember your settings and preferences, and to improve your experience on our site. For example, we may use these cookies to remember your language preferences.
Third Party Cookies
Aside from setting cookies ourselves, we also allow carefully-selected third parties to set cookies during your visit to our Websites. These organizations provide us with information on how you use the Websites. They may also use cookies to promote our newest products and latest offers to you on other websites based on your activity at our Websites. Some of our partners will use your location to provide more relevant messaging. Read on to learn how to disable these cookies should you wish to switch this feature off.
Analytics Cookies
We use various software tools that allow us to study, and then improve, how customers interact with our Websites - this is known as website analytics. Examples of analytical tools that we use are Google Analytics.
Analytics cookies allow us to understand more about how many visitors we have to the Websites, how many times they visit the Websites and how many times a user viewed specific webpages within our Websites. Although analytics cookies allow us to gather specific information about the pages that you visit and whether you have visited the Websites multiple times, we cannot use them to find out details such as your name or address.
Managing Cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies from the Websites, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you choose to do this, please be aware the Websites may no longer function as intended. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies; https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/, and to our Privacy Policy for information on Google Analytics.
Turning Off Cookies
All popular browsers (e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge and Safari) allow you to amend your cookie settings so that cookies are no longer enabled across all websites that you visit. You can find information explaining how to disable cookies for the main browsers in the ‘Where to find information about controlling cookies’ section at the Information Commissions website; https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
For more information about how we use the information you submit on this site, please read the applicable Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.