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Cookie Policy

Last updated: June 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Homing Pigeon Supplies ("we", "us", "our"), operating at homingpigeonsupplies.com, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work correctly, improve performance, and provide information to website owners.

Cookies do not contain personal information such as your name or payment details. However, any personal information we store about you may be linked to information obtained from cookies.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Keep you signed in and maintain your session securely
  • Remember items in your shopping cart
  • Remember your preferences (e.g. language, region)
  • Understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it
  • Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns
  • Show relevant advertising on third-party websites

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Essential

Session & Security Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function. They authenticate users, protect your data, maintain your shopping cart, and allow file uploads. The website will not work properly without these cookies and they cannot be disabled.

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Essential

Preference Cookies

These cookies remember your preferred settings such as language and region. Disabling them may degrade your experience but the website will still function.

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Optional

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our website — which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, and where traffic comes from. This information is aggregated and anonymous. You can opt out of Google Analytics at any time.

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Optional

Interaction History Cookies

These cookies collect information about your interactions with our website, including pages visited and marketing campaigns that brought you here. They help us understand and improve our marketing effectiveness. The website will still work if you disable them.

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Advertising & Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They may be set by us or by third-party advertising partners such as Google. You can opt out via the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. The website will still work if you disable them.

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4. Your Consent

When you first visit our website, we will ask for your consent to use optional cookies via our cookie banner. You can choose to accept all cookies, accept only essential cookies, or customise your preferences.

You can withdraw or change your cookie consent at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting our site, or by adjusting your browser settings as described below.

5. How to Control Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in several ways. Please note that removing or blocking cookies may impact your user experience and some functionality may no longer be available.

Browser settings: Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies. The method varies by browser — visit your browser's Help section for instructions:

Do Not Track: We do not currently respond to Do Not Track browser signals as there is no accepted industry standard for this feature.

6. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control these cookies. Third-party services we use include:

  • Google Analytics — website traffic and behaviour analysis
  • Google Ads — advertising and remarketing
  • Odoo Live Chat — customer support chat functionality

We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie policies of these third parties directly for full information about the cookies they set.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our business operations. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last revised. We encourage you to check this page periodically.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us:

Homing Pigeon Supplies
📧 info@pigeonpetshop.com
📞 0121 773 8877
🌐 www.homingpigeonsupplies.com