Cookie Policy
Your Privacy Matters to Us
At The Quirky Workshop, we want browsing, shopping and checking out to be simple, secure and transparent.
We use cookies and similar technologies to keep our website working properly, remember important choices, process orders, improve the way our website performs and, where you have given permission, help us understand how visitors use the site.
We are committed to handling personal information responsibly and to following the privacy and electronic communications laws that apply to our website and customers.
Depending on where you are located, these may include:
- United Kingdom — UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and PECR
- European Economic Area — GDPR and applicable ePrivacy rules
- United States — applicable state privacy legislation where relevant
- Canada — PIPEDA and applicable provincial privacy laws
- Australia — Privacy Act 1988
- South Africa — POPIA
- Brazil — LGPD
Not every privacy law listed above necessarily applies to every visitor or transaction. Your rights depend on your location and the circumstances in which your personal information is processed.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files or pieces of information that a website can store on your computer, phone, tablet or other device.
They allow websites to remember information about your visit. For example, cookies can help us remember what you have placed in your shopping basket, whether you are signed in, and the choices you have made about cookie preferences.
Cookies can also be used alongside similar technologies such as local storage, scripts, tags and tracking technologies.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office provides further information about cookies and similar technologies.
How We Use Cookies
The Quirky Workshop uses cookies for several purposes.
Some cookies are strictly necessary for the website to work. These can include cookies required to operate your shopping basket, checkout, account login, website security and payment process.
Other cookies may help us understand how the website is being used, remember preferences, improve website performance or measure the effectiveness of our content and marketing.
Where consent is required, optional cookies will only be used after you have made your choice through our cookie consent system.
Under UK rules, websites must normally provide clear information and obtain appropriate consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies, unless a legal exception applies.
Cookies We May Use
Shopping Basket and Checkout Cookies
Because The Quirky Workshop is an online shop, some cookies are necessary to remember which products you have added to your basket and allow you to move through the checkout process.
These cookies may also help maintain your checkout session, calculate order information and ensure your purchase can be processed correctly.
Cookies that are genuinely necessary to provide a service you have requested, such as remembering products in an online shopping basket, may fall within the strictly necessary exemption under UK cookie rules.
Account and Login Cookies
If you create an account or sign in to your account, cookies may be used to keep you logged in and provide access to account-specific features.
These cookies can prevent you from having to sign in again each time you move to another page.
When you log out, some session-related cookies may be removed, while others may remain where necessary to remember preferences, maintain security or provide essential website functionality.
Cookie Preference Cookies
When you make a choice using our cookie banner, a cookie may be stored to remember that choice.
Without this, we may have to ask for your cookie preferences every time you visit the website.
Website Preference Cookies
Cookies may be used to remember choices that improve your experience, such as display preferences or other website settings.
Contact and Form Cookies
If you submit information through a form on our website, cookies or similar technologies may sometimes be used to help maintain the form session, prevent abuse or remember relevant information.
For more information about how personal information submitted through forms is handled, please see our Privacy Policy.
Newsletter and Marketing Cookies
If we offer email subscriptions, newsletters or promotional communications, cookies may be used to help us understand whether you have already subscribed or whether particular subscription messages should be displayed.
Marketing or advertising cookies will only be used where permitted and, where required, after you have provided the appropriate consent.
Analytics Cookies
We may use analytics services to understand how visitors interact with The Quirky Workshop.
Analytics information can help us understand things such as which pages are visited, how visitors navigate around the website, how customers find us, which features are useful and where improvements may be needed.
Where analytics cookies or similar technologies require consent, they will only be activated after you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie banner.
Security and Fraud Prevention
Cookies and similar technologies may also be used to protect our website, customers and transactions against fraud, malicious activity, spam and unauthorised access.
Some security technologies may be considered strictly necessary for the safe operation of the website.
Third-Party Cookies and Services
Some features of The Quirky Workshop are provided with the help of trusted third-party services.
When one of these services is used, that provider may set or access cookies or similar technologies in accordance with its own privacy policies and the choices you have made through our cookie consent system.
Payment Providers
When you choose a payment method at checkout, the relevant payment provider may use cookies or similar technologies to securely process your payment, authenticate transactions, prevent fraud and provide payment functionality.
Depending on the payment options currently available at checkout, these may include providers such as PayPal, Klarna, Clearpay/Afterpay, Google Pay, Apple Pay and card-payment providers.
Their use of information is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.
Google Services
Where enabled, Google services may be used for website functionality, analytics, performance or other services.
Google may use cookies or similar technologies when these services are active.
More information about how Google handles information can be found in Google’s Privacy Policy.
Social Media and External Services
Our website may contain links, buttons, embedded content or other features provided by external websites and social networks.
If you interact with one of these services, the relevant third party may collect information or use cookies according to its own privacy policy.
Simply linking to another website does not mean that The Quirky Workshop controls the cookies or privacy practices used by that website.
Managing Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit The Quirky Workshop, you may be shown a cookie banner allowing you to choose which categories of non-essential cookies you are happy for us to use.
Our cookie consent system is provided using CookieYes.
CookieYes helps us manage cookie consent and cookie preferences and helps us apply your choices to optional cookies and similar technologies used on our website.
You can change your cookie preferences again using the cookie settings option available on our website.
Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie banner because important parts of the website may not function correctly without them.
Disabling Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their settings.
You can therefore prevent or remove cookies directly through your browser if you prefer.
However, blocking all cookies may affect the operation of The Quirky Workshop. This could prevent features such as your shopping basket, customer account, checkout, payment processing or saved preferences from working correctly.
For that reason, we recommend using our cookie preference controls where possible rather than blocking every cookie through your browser.
How Cookie Information Is Protected
We take reasonable steps to protect information processed through The Quirky Workshop and use reputable website, security, payment and consent-management providers to operate the site.
Where third-party providers process information on our behalf, their own security measures, terms and privacy policies may also apply.
No website or online service can guarantee absolute security. However, we aim to use appropriate technical and organisational safeguards to protect the information entrusted to us.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the applicable law, you may have rights relating to your personal information.
These can include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you
- Ask for inaccurate or incomplete information to be corrected
- Request deletion of information in certain circumstances
- Restrict or object to certain processing
- Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent
- Request information about how your personal information is used
- Exercise additional rights provided by applicable privacy legislation
For more information about how The Quirky Workshop collects, uses and protects personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy occasionally to reflect changes to our website, the services and technologies we use, our cookie practices, applicable legislation or regulatory guidance.
We recommend checking this page from time to time to make sure you are viewing the latest version.
Need More Information?
If you’re unsure about anything in this Cookie Policy, have a question about your privacy or would like to exercise a privacy right, please get in touch through our Contact Us page.
You can also find independent information and guidance about cookies and online privacy from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
