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This Cookie Policy explains how Ashley & Lewis Heritage Paint & Papers (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website ashleylewis-paint.com (the “Site”). It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They help websites function, improve user experience, and provide website owners with usage information. Cookies can be session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) or persistent cookies (which remain until deleted), and first-party (set by us) or third-party (set by an external provider).
We use cookies for one purpose only: to enable Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that submissions through our contact form come from a real person rather than automated spam. We do not use cookies for shopping baskets, accounts, advertising, or measurement.
Two other things on this Site are worth explaining, because although neither uses a cookie, both are the sort of thing this Policy exists to be open about.
When you add a colour or paper to your swatch book, the list is saved in your own browser’s local storage. It never leaves your device unless you choose to email or share the book, and clearing your browser’s site data removes it. This is how the feature works at all, so it is treated as strictly necessary and there is no way to turn it off separately: simply don’t add anything to a swatch book, or clear your browser data afterwards.
If you agree when asked, we record which pages are visited, what people search for, and which colours and papers are added to swatch books. This is entirely our own. Nothing is sent to Google, to any advertising network, or to any other third party, and there is no tracking across other websites.
No cookie is involved. To count returning visits within a single day, we create a short one-way code from your IP address and browser type. The date forms part of that code, so tomorrow the same person produces a different, unlinkable code, and your IP address itself is never stored. We cannot use any of it to identify you, contact you, or follow you elsewhere.
If you say no, or simply never answer, nothing is recorded at all. The Site works exactly the same either way.
These cookies are essential for the Site to work as intended and cannot be turned off.
None. The measurement described in section 2.2 uses no cookies and no device storage of any kind. Should we ever introduce analytics that does use cookies, we will update this Policy and ask for your consent before any such cookie is set.
We do not currently use advertising or marketing cookies on this Site.
Alongside Cloudflare Turnstile, we use Brevo to receive and process messages submitted through our contact form. Brevo does not set cookies in your browser as part of this. When you submit our contact form, your details are sent directly to Brevo’s systems so that we can receive and reply to your enquiry. See Brevo’s Privacy Policy for how they handle that data, and our Privacy Policy for more on how we use it.
On your first visit a short notice asks whether you are happy for us to measure page visits and searches. Nothing is recorded before you answer, and both answers are one click. You can change your mind at any time using the Cookie Choices link in the footer of every page, which brings the question back.
Your answer is remembered in your browser’s local storage, not in a cookie, so clearing your site data will make the notice appear again.
The Cloudflare Turnstile cookie is strictly necessary and is not covered by that choice. You can still block or delete cookies through your browser’s own settings, but note that blocking the Turnstile cookie may prevent you from submitting our contact form. You’re always welcome to call or email us instead: see our Contact page for details.
The Cloudflare Turnstile cookie is short-lived and used only to complete the spam-verification check when you submit our contact form.
Your swatch book and your answer to the measurement question stay in your browser until you clear its site data. The daily visitor code described in section 2.2 is meaningless after the day it was created.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the technology, tools, or services we use on this Site, for example if we add analytics or marketing tools in future. Significant changes will be reflected here, and the “Last updated” date will be revised.
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
M Purcell Services Limited, trading as Ashley & Lewis Heritage Paint & Papers
Email: sales@ashleylewis-paint.com