We ask that you read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and our use of cookies or similar technologies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Website Privacy Policy www.smallstories.co.uk/pages/privacy-policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

Whenever you use our website, mobile sites, mobile applications or applications on any other devices, information may be collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies.

By using our website, digital products and services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. 

This website is operated by Small Stories Limited trading as Small Stories. We are a company which sells children’s clothes www.smallstories.co.uk/pages/about-us.

This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, www.smallstories.co.uk

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of the user’s internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

You can clear cookies anytime from the browser by going to your browser settings and going to ‘clear cookies’. If you wish to disable cookie, most of the functionality on the site will not work such as adding an item to the basket. Our cookies banner is consent based and will continue to appear on our website so that you can accept it at any time and will not disappear.

For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

We use cookies on this website to:

• recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
• obtain information about your preferences and use of our website;
• keep track of the items stored in your shopping basket and take you through the checkout process;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content and products and to help us better understand our users’ requirements; and
• target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

For further information on cookies generally visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

1. Types of cookies

The cookies we place on your device fall into the following categories:

• Session cookies—these allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards
• Persistent cookies—these are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your cache
• Strictly necessary cookies—these cookies are essential for you to be able to navigate our website and use its features. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for could not be provided
• Performance cookies—these cookies collect information about how you use our website, eg which pages you go to most often. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous, and is only used to improve how our website works
• Functionality cookies—these cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites
• Targeting cookies—also known as advertising cookies, these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on our website and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.

1. The cookies we use

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Consent to use cookies

We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where these are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to enable you to put items in your shopping basket and use our check-out process).

There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and requests your consent to place cookies on your device. 

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. 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/.

Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.

If you wish to contact us please send an email to help@smallstories.co.uk.

This policy was published and last updated on in July 2018.

We may change this policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via a notice on our website.