Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help a website recognise your browser, remember certain settings and support features that you use while browsing.

Some cookies are needed for essential website functions, such as keeping items in your shopping basket. Others can help us understand website performance or remember choices you have made.

Similar technologies, including pixels and local storage, may also be used for related purposes. In this policy, we use the term “cookies” to cover these technologies where appropriate.

2. Why We Use Cookies

Cookies may be used on the EOV HIKING website for the following purposes:

Essential Website Functions

These help the website operate as expected. They may support page navigation, shopping basket functions, checkout steps, basic security and the handling of your cookie preferences.

Shopping and Preferences

These may help remember items added to your basket or certain choices made during your visit, so you can move between pages without unnecessarily repeating steps.

Website Performance and Analytics

Where enabled and permitted, analytics cookies help us understand which pages visitors use, how they navigate the website and whether pages are working as intended. We use this information to identify areas that could be improved.

Marketing and Advertising

If marketing technologies are used on our website, they may help measure advertising performance or provide more relevant advertising. These technologies will only be used where the required consent has been obtained.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for core website functions. They can support shopping basket activity, checkout processes, website security and the storage of cookie consent choices. They cannot normally be switched off through our website’s optional cookie settings because essential functions may not work without them.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember certain preferences and provide features that make browsing more convenient. If these cookies are not enabled, some preferences may need to be selected again.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us measure visits and understand how people interact with the website. Where consent is required, they will only be set after you have made the relevant choice.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies may be used to measure marketing activity or understand interactions with advertising. They are optional and, where required, will only operate after you have given consent.

Not every category will necessarily be active at all times. The cookies actually used depend on the website features and services enabled.

4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by the website you visit. Third-party cookies may be set by another service operating through the website, for example a service used for analytics, embedded content or payment-related functionality.

Where third-party services are used, those providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies. We aim to use services appropriate to the operation of our online shop and to apply the relevant consent requirements.

5. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be stored for different periods depending on their purpose.

• Session cookies: These are generally removed when you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies: These remain on your device until they expire or you delete them.

The retention period varies by cookie and service. Where applicable, information about a cookie’s purpose and duration should be available through the cookie preference tool or the relevant service documentation.

6. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit the website, a cookie notice or preference tool may be presented to let you choose whether to accept optional cookies.

You can accept or reject optional cookies through the available preference settings. Strictly necessary cookies may still be used where they are required for the website to function or to remember your choices.

If the website provides a cookie settings link, you can use it to review or change your preferences later. Changing your preferences does not necessarily remove cookies that have already been stored on your device; you may need to delete those separately through your browser.

7. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Most web browsers allow you to review, block or delete cookies through their settings. You may also be able to configure your browser to notify you when a cookie is being placed.

Browser controls vary by device and browser version, so refer to your browser’s help section for instructions.

Please be aware that blocking all cookies may affect the way some websites operate. On our website, restricting essential cookies may prevent certain shopping basket or checkout functions from working correctly.

8. Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies may collect information such as a device identifier, browser information, approximate location derived from technical data, pages visited or interactions with website features. Depending on the technology and how it is used, this information may be associated with personal information.

We handle personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection requirements. Where consent is required for optional cookies, we will seek that consent before using them.

9. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this policy when website features, cookies or applicable requirements change. The latest version will be published on this page.

We recommend reviewing this page occasionally so that you remain familiar with how cookies are used on the website.

10. Contact

If you have a question about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on the website, please contact us through the contact details provided on our website.