Cookie Policy

Last updated: 30 July 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how THEBELFASTBEARDCOMPANY LTD, trading as Belfast Beard Company, uses cookies and similar technologies on thebelfastbeardcompany.com.

Our website and online store are powered by Shopify.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow websites to function, remember preferences, keep shopping baskets active, process checkouts, maintain security and understand how visitors use the website.

Similar technologies, such as pixels, local storage and device identifiers, may perform related functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

How We Use Cookies

We may use cookies to:

• Operate our website and checkout
• Remember the contents of your shopping basket
• Save your cookie choices and preferences
• Process orders and payments
• Protect the website against fraud and misuse
• Maintain website security
• Understand website performance and usage
• Improve the customer experience
• Personalise content where you have consented

We do not currently use separately installed services such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, TikTok Pixel, Klaviyo or other third-party advertising and analytics tools.

Shopify may use its own cookies and technologies to operate, secure, analyse and improve the services it provides.

Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website and checkout to function properly.

They may be used to:

• Maintain website sessions
• Remember basket contents
• Process checkout activity
• Apply discount codes
• Detect fraud and protect website security
• Remember privacy and cookie choices
• Balance website traffic
• Provide customer-account functions

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent and cannot be disabled through our cookie banner.

Blocking these cookies through your browser may prevent the website or checkout from working correctly.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies remember choices and preferences that improve your experience.

They may remember:

• Location or regional preferences
• Currency settings
• Login or account preferences
• Previous website choices

Where required by law, these cookies will only be used after you provide consent.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Shopify may use analytics and performance cookies to help us understand:

• How visitors use the website
• Which pages and products are viewed
• Whether website features work correctly
• How customers move through the website and checkout
• General website performance

These cookies are not necessary to complete a purchase. They will only be used where you have consented through our cookie banner.

Marketing and Personalisation Cookies

We do not currently install separate advertising pixels or third-party marketing tools.

Shopify may make marketing or personalisation cookies available through its platform. Where these cookies are used, they will only operate after you provide the required consent.

You may reject or withdraw consent for marketing and personalisation cookies at any time.

Shopify Cookies

Shopify places cookies that are necessary to operate our online store and may place additional cookies where consent has been provided.

Examples may include:

Cookie	Purpose	Typical duration
_shopify_essential	Supports essential store, checkout and security functions	Up to 1 year
_shopify_test	Checks whether the browser supports cookies	Approximately 1 minute
_tracking_consent	Stores your cookie and privacy preferences	Up to 1 year
cart	Remembers products placed in your basket	Up to 2 weeks
cart_currency	Remembers the currency associated with the basket	Up to 2 weeks
discount_code	Remembers a discount code during the session	Session
localization	Supports country and regional settings	Up to 2 weeks
_shopify_analytics	Supports analytics where consent has been provided	Up to 1 year

The cookies used by Shopify may change as its services develop. Current information is available in the Shopify Cookie Policy.

Payment and Checkout Cookies

Payment providers may place cookies when you select or use their services during checkout.

These cookies may be necessary to:

• Process or authenticate payments
• Prevent fraud
• Maintain transaction security
• Remember payment choices
• Meet legal and regulatory requirements

Payment providers control their own cookies and explain their use in their respective privacy and cookie policies.

Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, our cookie banner allows you to:

• Accept non-essential cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Customise your cookie preferences

Non-essential cookies will not be used unless you provide consent.

Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent because they are required to provide the website, basket, checkout, security or another service you have requested.

Your cookie choices are stored so that the website can remember them.

Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting the Cookie Preferences option available on our website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls vary, so consult your browser’s support information for instructions.

Blocking all cookies may prevent parts of our website, basket, account or checkout from functioning correctly.

Cookie Duration

Cookies may be:

• Session cookies, which expire when you close your browser
• Persistent cookies, which remain for a specified period or until you delete them

We retain cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for their stated purpose. Specific durations may be displayed in our cookie preference controls or in the relevant service provider’s cookie policy.

Personal Information

Some cookies may collect information that identifies you or can be linked to you, including:

• IP address
• Device or browser information
• Website identifiers
• Basket and checkout activity
• Website usage information
• Cookie preferences

Our collection and use of personal information is explained in our Privacy Policy.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes to our website, Shopify services, cookies or legal obligations.

The latest version will be published on our website with its revision date.

Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please use the monitored Contact Us form at thebelfastbeardcompany.com.