We are committed to providing you with the best possible online shopping experience. To achieve this, we use cookies and similar technologies on our website. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, why we use them, and how you can manage your preferences.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. These files do not contain personal information that can identify you directly, but they do allow us to recognise your browser and device.
For more information on cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How We Use Cookies
At Blades UK Tools, we use cookies for several important reasons:
- To Improve Your Shopping Experience: Cookies help us remember your preferences, such as your login details, items in your shopping cart, and language settings. This means you don’t have to re-enter information every time you visit or browse from page to page.
- To Understand How Our Website Is Used: We use analytical cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our website. This helps us understand which pages are popular, how visitors navigate the site, and identify areas for improvement. This data is anonymised and aggregated.
- To Provide Relevant Content and Advertising: Cookies help us to deliver content and advertisements that are more relevant to your interests, both on our site and potentially on other websites you visit.
- For Website Functionality: Some cookies are essential for the basic operation of our e-commerce website, ensuring that features like adding items to your cart and proceeding to checkout work smoothly.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use various types of cookies on Blades UK Tools. These can generally be categorised as follows:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas or making purchases. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They allow us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog post.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Third-Party Cookies
We may also allow certain third parties to place cookies on your device. These third parties include analytics providers who help us monitor website traffic, and potentially advertising networks who may use cookies to track your browsing activity across different websites to serve you with more relevant ads.
We do not control the use of these third-party cookies, and you should refer to the respective third party’s cookie policy for more information.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser’s settings to prevent it from accepting cookies if you prefer.
You can also delete cookies that are already on your computer. If you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a website, and some services and functionalities may not work.
The “Help” menu in your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit:
Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly.
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy or the way we use cookies, please do not hesitate to contact us:
- By email: support@bladesuktools.co.uk
- Via our contact form: Contact Us
Thank you for shopping with Blades UK Tools!