This policy explains how Hidden Mana uses cookies and similar technologies on hiddenmana.co.uk, what they do, and how you can control them. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal information more generally.

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What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make sites work, to remember your preferences, and to give site owners information about how their site is being used. We also use similar technologies such as local storage and pixels. Where this policy refers to cookies, it covers those too.

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Our legal basis for using them

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and UK GDPR, we can only place cookies on your device without your consent where they are strictly necessary for the site to work or to provide a service you have asked for. For every other type of cookie, including analytics and advertising, we ask for your consent before setting them. You can change or withdraw that consent at any time using the cookie settings link in the footer of our website.

The cookies we use

Our website is built on the Wix platform, and Wix sets a number of cookies as part of running the site. Additional cookies may be set by third-party services we use.

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Strictly necessary cookies. These are required for the website to function, for security, and for core shopping features such as keeping items in your basket. They cannot be switched off. They include XSRF-TOKEN (session, security), hs (session, security), smSession (two days to two weeks, identifies logged-in account holders), svSession (two years, identifies unique visitors and maintains your session including your basket), SSR-caching (session, records how a page was rendered), and TS cookies (session, security). These are all set by Wix.

Functional cookies. These remember choices you make so the site behaves the way you expect. Turning them off means some features may not work as smoothly. They include wixLanguage (12 months, remembers your language preference) and consent-policy (12 months, remembers your cookie preferences). Both are set by Wix.

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Analytics and performance cookies. These help us understand how people find and use our site, which pages are popular, and where things go wrong. The information is used in aggregate and helps us improve the shop. They include fedops.logger.sessionId (12 months, set by Wix, measures site stability and performance), and _ga and ga cookies (up to two years, set by Google, used to distinguish users and maintain analytics sessions).

Advertising and targeting cookies. These may be set by us or by advertising partners to measure the effectiveness of our marketing and to show you relevant products. They can build a profile of your interests across websites. They include _fbp (three months, set by Meta, measures and targets advertising on Meta platforms).

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Third-party services

Some cookies are set by companies other than us. We do not control these cookies, and you should read their own policies to understand how they use the information they collect. The third parties that may set cookies through our site include Wix, our website platform; Google, for analytics; Meta, for advertising measurement where we run paid social campaigns; and our payment providers, who may set cookies when you check out in order to process the transaction securely and detect fraud. Embedded content, such as videos or social media feeds, may also set its own cookies when you interact with it.

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Managing your cookies

On our website, use the cookie settings link in our footer to review or change your preferences at any time. Withdrawing consent is as straightforward as giving it.

In your browser, most settings let you block or delete cookies. The help pages for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge all explain how. Please be aware that blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, will stop parts of our site from working. You may not be able to stay logged in, keep items in your basket, or complete a purchase.

Some browsers send a Do Not Track signal. There is currently no agreed standard for how websites should respond to these signals, so we do not act on them. You can control cookies using the options above instead.

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Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when our site changes or when the law does. The date at the top shows when it was last revised. Please check back from time to time.

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Contact us

If you have questions about this policy or about how we use cookies, please get in touch:

Hidden Mana
Email: [CONTACT EMAIL]
[POSTAL ADDRESS, IF APPLICABLE]

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection, at ico.org.uk.