Cookie Policy

About Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise your browser and remember certain information between visits.

Oakmere Basics uses cookies where they are useful for operating the online shop, remembering selected preferences, supporting the checkout process and understanding general website usage.

How We Use Cookies

Cookies may be used to help us:

• Keep the website functioning correctly.
• Remember items added to your shopping basket.
• Support the checkout and customer account functions.
• Remember selected website preferences.
• Understand general visitor activity.
• Improve website navigation and usability.
• Monitor website performance and technical issues.

We aim to use cookies only where they have a useful role in providing or improving the website.

Types of Cookies

Necessary Cookies

These cookies support essential website functions such as the shopping basket, checkout, customer account features, security and basic website operation.

Preference Cookies

These cookies may remember choices made while using the website, such as selected settings, so that the site can provide a more consistent experience.

Analytics Cookies

Where enabled, analytics cookies help us understand general website activity, such as which pages are visited and how visitors move through the site.

Functional Cookies

These cookies support additional website functions that are useful but are not required for the basic operation of the shop.

Cookie Categories

The following table describes the main categories of cookies that may be used on an online shop such as Oakmere Basics. The exact cookies active on the website may change as website features and services are updated.

Shopping & Checkout Cookies

Because Oakmere Basics operates an online shop, certain cookies may be needed to keep track of products added to your basket while you browse the site.

These cookies may also help maintain the checkout process, remember relevant session information and support customer account functions.

Without these types of cookies, some basic shopping features may not work as expected.

Website Analytics

We may use analytics tools to understand general patterns of website usage. This can include information such as pages viewed, approximate visit duration, device type, browser information and general website activity.

Analytics information helps us identify pages that may need improvement and understand which parts of the website are useful to visitors.

Analytics cookies are not intended to identify individual customers directly.

Managing Cookies

Depending on the cookies being used, you may be able to manage your preferences through the cookie controls provided on the website.

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies according to your preferred settings.

Please note that blocking certain cookies may affect shopping features, account functions or other parts of the website.

How Long Cookies Remain

Some cookies are session cookies and are removed when you close your browser.

Other cookies remain on your device for a set period or until they are removed through your browser settings.

Necessary website cookies may remain for up to 12 months, while certain analytics cookies may remain for up to 24 months, depending on their purpose and configuration.

Where consent is required for an optional cookie, the relevant consent choice may be reviewed or refreshed within 12 months.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when the website, its features or the cookies being used change.

Any revised version will be published on this page and will apply immediately after publication.

We recommend checking this page occasionally if you would like to keep up with any changes to our cookie practices.

Questions About Cookies

If you have a question about how cookies are used on the Oakmere Basics website, you can contact our customer support team.