Cookie Policy

1. 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 and provide information to website owners. Cookies help us understand how visitors use our website and improve your browsing experience.

2. How We Use Cookies

Books 4 The Kids uses cookies for the following purposes:

• To remember your preferences and settings
• To enable essential website functionality
• To analyse website traffic and user behaviour
• To improve our website performance and user experience
• To remember items in your shopping basket
• To provide relevant content and advertisements

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, secure area access, and shopping basket functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they cannot be disabled.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and whether users receive error messages. This information helps us improve how our website works. These cookies do not collect information that identifies individual visitors.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personalised features. For example, they may remember your username, language preference, or region. The information these cookies collect is anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They also help limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services we use, such as:

• Google Analytics: To analyse website usage and improve our services
• Payment Processors: To handle secure transactions
• Social Media Platforms: To enable social sharing features

These third parties have their own privacy policies, and we have no control over the cookies they set.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner that allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can change your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings.

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically:

• See what cookies are stored on your device
• Delete existing cookies
• Block or allow cookies from specific websites
• Block all cookies from being set
• Delete all cookies when you close your browser

Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect your experience on our website and prevent some features from working properly.

6. Browser-Specific Cookie Management

For information on how to manage cookies in your specific browser, please visit:

• Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
• Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and website data
• Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions

7. Cookie Duration

Cookies can be session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) or persistent cookies (which remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them).

8. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business operations. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

9. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at [email protected] or call +44 078 4440 0535.