HollyBloom Cookies Policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
How we use cookies?
HollyBloom, which is a sole trader operating in England and Wales, uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
Cookies have a unique alphanumeric identifier that sits on your browser. In many cases, we won’t be able to link the information we collect by using a cookie back to you. They can, however, enable us to link that information back to you and your personal information, for instance, when you log in, or choose to register. For further information on how we use your information please see our Privacy Policy.
Which cookies do we use?
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- Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our websites and use features, such as accessing secure areas of the site or remembering language choices. Without these cookies, we would not be able to provide you with services like enabling appropriate content based on your type of device.
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- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
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- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
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- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
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- Marketing cookies. These cookies are placed on our website by third party advertising networks on our behalf and with Hollybloom’s permission. In the sections below you will find information about third party cookies as well as some guidance as to how to manage them.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, we shall not be liable, and we do not accept any liability for any third-party cookies.
These cookies are used: (i) for marketing purposes, for instance to collect information about general interests and browsing habits so that we can display targeted and relevant advertising; (ii) to remember that you have visited our website and this is shared with other organisations; (iii) to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of our digital advertising campaigns.
Sometimes, other companies will add a cookie on our website to show you adverts and pages which may be of interest to you. Details on these, and how to opt out if you prefer, can be found below.
We sometimes use persistent cookies as well as ‘session-based’ cookies. A ‘persistent’ cookie will remain for a period of time set for that cookie. A ‘session-based’ cookie is allocated only for the duration of your visit to our website and automatically expires when you close down your browser.
Please note that the third parties specified in the tables below may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. Where applicable, you can find out more about transfers to third countries that are carried out by the third parties identified in this Cookies Policy in the corresponding policies. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | ||||
| Cookie Title | Type | Owner | Duration | Description |
| sbjs_current | Strictly Necessary | HollyBloom | Session | Tracks the current session of the user. |
| sbjs_current_add | Strictly Necessary | HollyBloom | Session | Tracks additional data for the current session of the user. |
| sbjs_first | Strictly Necessary | HollyBloom | Session | Tracks the first session of the user. |
| sbjs_first_add | Strictly Necessary | HollyBloom | Session | Tracks additional data for the first session of the user. |
| Analytical or performance cookies | ||||
| Cookie Title | Type | Owner | Duration | Description |
| sbjs_migrations | Analytics | HollyBloom | Session | Tracks migrations of the user data. |
| sbjs_udata | Analytics | HollyBloom | Session | Stores user data for analytics purposes. |
| tk_lr | Analytics | HollyBloom | 1 year | Used to collect internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. |
| tk_or | Analytics | HollyBloom | 5 years | Used to collect internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. |
| tk_r3d | Analytics | HollyBloom | 1 day | Used to collect internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. |
| HSID | HTTP | Google analytics | 1 year and 1 month | Safeguarding user data by working together with another cookie called SID to enhance security by preventing unauthorized access and protecting user data from potential threats |
| OGP | Open Graph Protocol | 1 month | Used to integrate web pages into the social graph, allowing for rich previews when links are shared on social media platforms. | |
| SID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Safeguarding user data by working together with another cookie called SID to enhance security by preventing unauthorized access and protecting user data from potential threats |
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| SIDCC | HTTP | 1 day | Safeguarding by providing the identification of trusted web traffic |
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| _GRECAPTCHA | HTTP | 3 months | Use for security purposes, specifically to differentiate between genuine human users and potentially harmful bots on websites | |
| _Secure-1PAPISID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used for security purposes, helping to ensure that user data is protected and that requests made to Google’s services are legitimate. | |
| _Secure-1PSID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used for security purposes, helping to ensure that user data is protected and that requests made to Google’s services are legitimate. | |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | HTTP | 1 year | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| __Secure-1PSIDTS | HTTP | 1 year | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| __Secure-3PSID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | HTTP | 1 year | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| __Secure-3PSIDTS | HTTP | 1 year | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| __Secure-ENID | HTTP | 10 months | Used for security purposes to store encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID. | |
| Personalization Cookies | ||||
| Cookie Title | Type | Owner | Duration | Description |
| NID | HTTP | 9 months | Remember user settings and preferences to enhance the browsing experience. | |
| Marketing Cookies | ||||
| Cookie Title | Type | Owner | Duration | Description |
| APISID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used to persolanlize ads based on recent searched and interactions | |
| OGPC | HTTP | Google Ads | 1 month | Optimize ads by collecting information about user preferences and interactions with ads. |
| SAPISID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used to persolanlize ads based on your recent searched and interactions | |
| SSID | HTTP | 1 year and 1 month | Used to persolanlize ads based on your recent searched and interactions | |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
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- Google.
How to disable or manage cookies?
You can opt-out of each cookie category (except Essential cookies) by clicking on the icon in the bottom left of the screen on the home page of the HollyBloom website and toggle the cookies that you would like to opt-out from.
Alternatively, you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
All browsers allow for changes to be made to disable the configuration of cookies. Most browsers cookies settings to obtain greater control over privacy.
If you wish to revoke your informed consent for the use of cookies sent from the website, or amend it, you can access the cookies configuration panel or make changes of your browser, without impeding access to the contents of our website.
The settings are found under the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser. Below you can find the links to each browser for the instructions to disable cookies:
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- Internet Explorer (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies)
- From the tools menu, select “Internet Options”.
- Click the privacy tab.
- You can set privacy with a six position cursor that allows you to control the amount of cookies that will be installed: Block all cookies, High, Medium High, Medium (default level), Low and Accept all cookies.
- Internet Explorer (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies)
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- Mozilla Firefox (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences)
- At the top of the Firefox sale click on the Tools menu.
- Select Options.
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Under the Firefox option you can choose to Use a custom history setting to configure the options.
- Mozilla Firefox (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences)
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- Google Chrome (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en)
- Click on the menu in the toolbar.
- Select Configuration.
- Click on Show advanced options.
- In the “Privacy” selection, click on the Content Settings button.
- In the selection of Cookies, you can set the options.
- Google Chrome (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en)
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- Safari (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac)
- Select the “Preferences” option from the configuration menu.
- Open the privacy tab.
- Select the option you want from the “block cookies” section.
- Please note that certain features and full functionality of the website may not be available after cookies are disabled.
- Safari (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac)
For visitors of the website to have the possibility of preventing Google Analytics from using their data, Google has developed an opt-out browser add-on for Google browsers. Available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
How to manage cookies on mobile devices?
Cookies and other storage devices are also used when you access the website from mobile devices. As in the case of computer browsers, mobile device browsers allow you to make changes in the privacy options or settings to disable or delete cookies.
If you wish to change your privacy options, follow the instructions specified by the developer of your mobile device browser.
Below you will find some links that will guide you in changing the privacy settings on your mobile device.
How long do our cookies last?
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- Windows Phone: (Windows Phone 8.1 End of Support: FAQ – Microsoft Support)
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- Chrome Mobile: (Change site permissions – Computer – Google Chrome Help)
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- Opera Mobile: (Web preferences – Opera Help)
Except for strictly necessary cookies, all cookies will expire after twenty five (25) months.
Contact us
If you have any concerns or questions about how we use cookies on our websites, you can contact us at Info@hollybloom.co.uk.
This version of our Cookie Policy has been updated in September 2024.
