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Cookie policy

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Our Website uses 'cookies' to distinguish you from other users of our website.

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This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our service. On revisiting our website, we will therefore be able to obtain information about your previous visits and about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.

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What are cookies?

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Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, mobile phone or device. Cookies may be placed on your device when you visit a website or open a marketing email.

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How the McWhirter The Jeweller Ltd uses cookies

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McWhirter The Jeweller Ltd does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. We use cookies for a variety of reasons, such as to remember your preferences when you visit our sites, tailor your visit and monitor traffic to enable us to improve our sites.

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We also set third-parties cookies to allow you to easily link to third parties you may be subscribed to, such as Twitter and YouTube. We do not control these cookies, but we check how these cookies might use your information before allowing them to be set on our sites. Please visit the third-parties’ websites for more information on these cookies.

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Some third-party cookies are used to help us understand the performance of our marketing activity and improve the relevance of the adverts you see. We use these cookies to display products and services that we think will interest you, across our websites.

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Our members and partners may also set cookies when they direct you to our site.

Below is a list of the main cookies used by each our websites.

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  • Required cookies. These cookies are necessary for the website to function. If they are disabled our site will not work.

  • Performance cookies. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our sites.

  • Functionality cookies. These cookies allow us to remember choices you’ve made on our sites.

 

Consent to the use of cookies

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Consent—option 1 (browser settings):

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If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in this website cookie policy. If you change your mind in the future about letting us use cookies, you can modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies or disable cookies completely.

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OR

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Consent—option 2 (notification on home page)

There is a notice on our home page which provides a link to our website privacy policy in which we describe how we use cookies. If you use this website after this notification has been displayed to you, we will assume that you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described in this website cookie policy and our website privacy policy.

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How to manage your cookies

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You can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.

It is not advisable to use cookies if your computer is shared by other people. You should clear 'cookies' stored by the web browser when using another person's computer to avoid your e-mail address or other de-tails being displayed in the login field to a subsequent user of our Website.

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You can accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or modify your browser to alert you of any new cookies. To clear the stored cookies, you can normally go to the Tools dropdown menu at the top of the browser window.

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Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to prevent cookies being stored. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies:

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https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.

Be advised that if you do turn cookies off this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your visitor experience.

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Apple Safari
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox

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For further information on cookies and how to switch them off see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

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