Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how BudChampion uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with our website. It also explains the choices available to you and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
Cookies may help the website function correctly, remember your preferences, process orders securely, understand how visitors use the website and measure the effectiveness of our content and marketing.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. Cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember information about your visit, preferences or previous activity.
We may also use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and device identifiers. In this policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as cookies.
Session and Persistent Cookies
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies:
- Session cookies are temporary and are normally deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
Cookies may also be:
- First-party cookies, which are set directly by BudChampion; or
- Third-party cookies, which are set by another organisation whose services are used on our website.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the purposes described below. Strictly necessary cookies may be placed without your consent because they are required for the website or a service you have requested to function correctly.
Analytics, functionality and marketing cookies will only be used where you have provided the relevant consent through our cookie banner or preference settings.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support essential website and ecommerce functions. Without them, parts of the website may not work correctly.
These cookies may be used to:
- Remember products placed in your shopping basket
- Maintain your session while moving between pages
- Enable checkout and secure payment processing
- Authenticate registered customers
- Protect the website and customer accounts from fraud or misuse
- Balance website traffic and maintain performance
- Remember your cookie-consent choices
Because these cookies are essential to provide services requested by you, they cannot normally be disabled through our cookie settings. You can block them through your browser, but doing so may prevent the website, basket or checkout from functioning correctly.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide a more personalised experience.
They may be used to remember:
- Your account or login preferences
- Your preferred website settings
- Products or pages you have previously viewed
- Your location, language or currency preferences where available
- Information you have entered into forms during a browsing session
These cookies are not essential and will only be used where you have provided consent.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use BudChampion. They may collect information about which pages are visited, how visitors move through the website, how long pages take to load and whether technical errors occur.
We use this information to:
- Measure website traffic and visitor activity
- Understand which pages and products are most useful
- Identify navigation or usability problems
- Improve website performance and content
- Measure completed purchases and other website actions
Where possible, analytics information is aggregated or pseudonymised. These cookies will only be used where you have provided consent.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to measure advertising campaigns, understand whether a visitor completed a purchase after following a promotional link and provide content or advertising that is more relevant to their interests.
These cookies may:
- Record visits to particular pages or products
- Measure referrals from advertising or partner websites
- Limit how frequently an advertisement is displayed
- Help assess the performance of marketing campaigns
- Allow advertising providers to build an interest profile
Marketing cookies may be placed by third-party advertising or analytics providers. They will only be used where you have actively consented to them.
Third-Party Cookies
Some services used by BudChampion may place their own cookies or similar technologies. These may include payment providers, analytics services, embedded content providers, fraud-prevention services and marketing platforms.
Third parties are responsible for the cookies they set and for explaining how they process information collected through those technologies. Their use of personal information will be governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.
We review the third-party services used on our website and aim to ensure that visitors receive clear information and appropriate controls.
Cookie Consent
When you first visit BudChampion, you will be given the opportunity to accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies.
Consent must be given through a clear and positive action. Simply continuing to browse the website will not be treated as consent to analytics, functionality or marketing cookies.
Your decision will be stored so that we can remember your preferences. We may ask you to review your choices again if our use of cookies changes, your consent expires or the website cannot recognise your previous selection.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by reopening the Cookie Settings available through our website.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your preferences were changed. It may also take a short period for updated choices to take effect across all services.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Depending on the browser you use, you may be able to:
- View cookies stored on your device
- Delete individual or all cookies
- Block first-party or third-party cookies
- Block cookies from particular websites
- Clear cookies when your browser closes
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored
Blocking all cookies may affect website functionality. In particular, you may be unable to add products to your basket, remain logged in or complete checkout.
How Long Are Cookies Stored?
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and whether it is a session or persistent cookie.
Session cookies are normally removed when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for the period specified by the relevant cookie provider unless you delete them earlier.
We aim to retain cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for their stated purpose. Details of the cookies currently in use, including their providers and durations, are available through our Cookie Settings.
Personal Information
Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal information, such as device identifiers, IP addresses, account information or browsing activity.
Where cookies involve personal information, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, service providers, legal obligations or use of cookies changes.
Any revised version will be published on this page. Where changes materially affect the choices available to visitors, we may also request fresh consent through our cookie banner.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the technologies used on BudChampion, please contact us.
