What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit. They allow the site to remember information about your visit — such as your preferences and what pages you have viewed — which can both make your next visit smoother and help the site work properly. We also use similar technologies including pixels and local storage, and references to "cookies" in this policy cover all of them.
Cookies we use
The cookies we use on this site fall into the following categories:
Strictly necessary
Required for the website to function. These cookies remember your cookie preferences and support core features such as form submissions. They cannot be turned off in our systems.
Performance & analytics
These help us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it — for example, which pages are most popular and where visitors arrive from. We use [Google Analytics] for this purpose, configured to anonymise IP addresses.
Functional
These remember choices you make — such as whether you have dismissed a notice or saved a lot as a favourite — so that you do not have to set them again on every visit.
Marketing
These cookies may be set by us or by third-party advertising partners to show you content that is relevant to your interests on other websites you visit. We will only set these with your consent.
Cookies in use
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| rco_consent | Richards & Co. | Stores your cookie preferences. | 12 months |
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique visitors and aggregates traffic data. | 13 months |
| rco_favourites | Richards & Co. | Remembers lots you have saved as favourites. | 6 months |
[Please review and complete this table once the live analytics, advertising and consent tools have been confirmed.]
Managing your preferences
You can change your preferences at any time by [clicking the "Cookie settings" link in the footer]. You can also block or delete cookies directly through your browser settings — guidance is available at aboutcookies.org. Please note that disabling strictly-necessary cookies may prevent parts of the site from working as intended.
Changes to this policy
If we change the cookies we use, this page will be updated. The "last updated" date at the top of the page will always reflect the most recent revision.
Contact
Questions about our use of cookies can be sent to privacy@richardsandco.co.uk.