Cookie Policy

Last updated: 24 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Amber Dragons uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://amberdragons.co.uk/.

Amber Dragons is operated by Christine Saunders, an independent stained glass artist based in Somerset, United Kingdom.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device.

Cookies allow a website to recognise a visitor’s device and can be used to:

  • Keep the website secure
  • Remember cookie preferences
  • Maintain a shopping basket
  • Support checkout and payment functions
  • Remember information during a browsing session
  • Understand how visitors use the website
  • Improve website performance
  • Display embedded content
  • Prevent fraud and malicious activity

Some cookies last only for the duration of your visit. These are known as session cookies. Others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.

2. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly by the Amber Dragons website. They may support essential website functions, shopping features, security and visitor preferences.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies may be placed by external services used on the website, such as:

  • Payment providers
  • Website analytics services
  • Video platforms
  • Social media platforms
  • Security services
  • Delivery or ecommerce services

Third-party providers control their own cookies and process information in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

3. How Amber Dragons Uses Cookies

Amber Dragons may use the following categories of cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to operate securely and correctly.

They may be used to:

  • Provide website security
  • Prevent fraud and malicious activity
  • Remember cookie choices
  • Maintain a shopping basket
  • Process checkout steps
  • Remember session information
  • Support customer account functions
  • Balance website traffic
  • Provide essential accessibility features

Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through the website’s cookie controls because the website may not function correctly without them.

Analytics and performance cookies

These cookies help Amber Dragons understand how visitors use the website.

They may collect information about:

  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on the website
  • Links selected
  • Approximate visitor location
  • Device and browser type
  • How a visitor arrived at the website
  • Website errors and performance
  • Whether a visitor is new or returning

Analytics information is used to understand website performance and improve content, navigation and user experience.

Analytics cookies will only be activated where the required consent has been obtained.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices and provide enhanced features.

They may be used to remember:

  • Display preferences
  • Previously viewed products
  • Selected settings
  • Accessibility choices
  • Location or language preferences

If functional cookies are rejected, some enhanced website features may not operate as expected.

Payment and fraud-prevention cookies

Where online payments are available, the payment provider may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Process transactions securely
  • Authenticate payment requests
  • Detect fraud
  • Protect customer and payment information
  • Meet legal and regulatory obligations

Cookies that are essential to completing a payment may be treated as strictly necessary. Any non-essential payment-related cookies will be subject to the appropriate consent requirements.

Amber Dragons does not normally receive or store complete payment-card details.

Embedded-content cookies

Some pages may contain content provided by external services, including:

  • Videos
  • Maps
  • Social media posts
  • Image galleries
  • Sharing tools
  • Review platforms

External content may behave as if you had visited the provider’s own website. The provider may place cookies, collect usage information or track interaction with the embedded content.

Where required, this content and its associated cookies will remain blocked until consent is provided.

Advertising cookies

Amber Dragons does not intend to use advertising cookies unless this is clearly disclosed through the website’s cookie banner and consent controls.

If advertising or remarketing services are introduced, the relevant cookies will not be activated until the required consent has been obtained.

4. Cookies Used by the Online Shop

If WooCommerce or similar ecommerce functionality is active, the website may use essential cookies to:

  • Remember items placed in a basket
  • Maintain a shopping session
  • Update basket totals
  • Support checkout
  • Remember recently viewed products
  • Display store notices
  • Protect transactions

Common WooCommerce cookies may include:

Cookie Purpose Typical duration
woocommerce_cart_hash Detects changes to the shopping basket Session
woocommerce_items_in_cart Records whether the basket contains products Session
wp_woocommerce_session_* Assigns a unique shopping-session identifier Approximately two days
woocommerce_recently_viewed Supports recently viewed product functions Session
store_notice* Remembers whether a store notice has been dismissed Session or as configured

These cookies do not normally store complete payment-card information.

Cookie names and durations may change when the ecommerce software or website configuration is updated.

5. WordPress Cookies

The Amber Dragons website is built using WordPress. WordPress may use cookies for website administration, security, user sessions and preference management.

Possible WordPress cookies include:

Cookie Purpose Typical duration
wordpress_test_cookie Checks whether the browser accepts cookies Session
wordpress_logged_in_* Maintains an authenticated user session Session
wordpress_sec_* Supports secure account authentication Session
wp-settings-* Stores administrative or user display preferences Up to one year
wp-settings-time-* Records when user preferences were set Up to one year

Some WordPress cookies are only created for administrators or registered users and will not normally be placed on ordinary visitors’ devices.

6. Cookie-Consent Cookies

The website’s consent tool may place a strictly necessary cookie to remember whether you have:

  • Accepted optional cookies
  • Rejected optional cookies
  • Selected particular cookie categories
  • Closed or interacted with the cookie banner

The consent record prevents the website from repeatedly asking for the same choice during every page visit.

The exact cookie name and duration depend on the cookie-consent system currently installed. Consent records will only be retained for a reasonable period before visitors are asked to confirm their choices again.

7. Analytics Cookies

Where analytics are enabled and consent has been obtained, services such as Google Analytics may place cookies including:

Cookie Purpose Typical maximum duration
_ga Distinguishes visitors for analytics reporting Up to two years
_ga_* Maintains and records an analytics session Up to two years
_gid Distinguishes visitors over a shorter period Approximately 24 hours
_gat Helps control request rates Approximately one minute

The precise cookies and retention periods depend on the analytics configuration in use.

Amber Dragons should configure analytics to collect only the information reasonably required to understand website performance.

8. Cookie Consent

When you first visit the Amber Dragons website, you should be given clear choices concerning non-essential cookies.

The cookie banner should provide the following options:

  • Accept All
  • Reject Non-Essential
  • Manage Preferences

Non-essential cookies should not be activated before the required consent has been obtained.

Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent access to the main website, although some embedded content or enhanced features may be unavailable.

9. Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time by selecting the Cookie Settings link in the website footer or reopening the cookie-preference panel.

Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

Changing your preferences should prevent the website from setting the relevant optional cookies in the future. Cookies already stored on your device may need to be removed through your browser settings.

10. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View stored cookies
  • Delete individual cookies
  • Delete all cookies
  • Block cookies from selected websites
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Block all cookies
  • Clear cookies when the browser closes

Instructions are normally available through the browser’s privacy or security settings.

Blocking all cookies may affect essential website functions, including shopping baskets, checkout, customer accounts and saved preferences.

Useful browser guidance is available from:

  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge

11. Similar Technologies

This policy also applies to similar storage and access technologies where they are used, including:

  • Local storage
  • Session storage
  • Tracking pixels
  • Tags
  • Scripts
  • Software development kits
  • Device identifiers
  • Embedded-content technologies

These technologies may be subject to the same consent requirements as conventional cookies.

12. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies

Some cookie information may constitute personal information where it identifies, relates to or can be connected with an individual.

Information collected may include:

  • IP address
  • Device identifiers
  • Browser and device information
  • Website activity
  • Cookie preferences
  • Approximate location
  • Referral source
  • Shopping-session information

Further information about how Amber Dragons handles personal information, the relevant lawful bases, retention periods, data sharing and your rights is available in the Amber Dragons Privacy Policy.

13. External Websites

The Amber Dragons website may contain links to external websites.

Amber Dragons does not control cookies placed by independently operated websites. You should review the cookie and privacy policies of any external website you visit.

14. Updates to This Cookie Policy

This policy may be updated when:

  • Website functions change
  • New services are added
  • Cookies are added, removed or reconfigured
  • Ecommerce or payment systems change
  • Analytics services change
  • Legal or regulatory requirements change

The latest version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.

15. Contact Amber Dragons

For questions about cookies, privacy or the use of personal information, contact:

Christine Saunders
Amber Dragons
Email: contact@amberdragons.co.uk
Website: https://amberdragons.co.uk/

You can also read the full Amber Dragons Privacy Policy.

16. Complaints

If you are concerned about the use of cookies or personal information, please contact Amber Dragons first so the matter can be investigated.

You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Telephone: 0303 123 1113