What are Cookies?
Last updated: Last updated 25 February 2020
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at My Jewellery Store FZE, doing business as MJS (“MJS”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
What is a cookie?
- A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit.
- Cookies can be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
- Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session identity allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
- Persistent cookies: These are stored as a file on your computer and remain there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the Internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to provide you with an enhanced browsing experience by tracking your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the website and track any patterns with regards said usage. This helps us to develop and improve our website, products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website, as you navigate our website, and to determine if you are logged into the website
- personalisation - we use cookies to personalise the website for you by storing information about your preferences
- security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services from cyber-attacks generally
- advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you
- analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services
- cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally
Cookies used by our service providers
- Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
Managing cookies
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links: