Visit Peebles - The Royal Burgh

Privacy policy

About Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your laptop, PC, phone or other web enabled device when you visit the our website. They are not harmful and do not contain any confidential information such as your home address, date of birth or credit card details.

Cookies are an essential part of how our site works. Some of these cookies are required by our site to enable you to transact whilst other cookies enable us to give you an enhanced, personalised web experience.

By using our site, you consent to the use of these cookies. Cookies may be used on our site for the following reasons:

  • To allow you to securely sign in to your, so that you can use "My Account" features such as order information etc.
  • To store the content of your online shopping cart whilst you browse the site and to complete an order.
  • To record the areas of the website that you have visited, pages you have viewed and time spent browsing, as well as the products you might have purchased. We use this information to help make the website more user friendly, develop our site design and to continuously improve the quality of the service we provide.

We also offer you the facility to share your experience on our site through social sites such as facebook and twitter. By using these features, you are also consenting to allow cookies from these providers. More information about how these providers use cookies can be found at their websites.

Are cookies safe?

Yes. The information stored in cookies is safe and anonymous. They do not contain any information which could personally identify you and your account security is never compromised. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. For a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies.

Can I turn off cookies?

We use cookies to ensure that we provide the best possible standard of service to our online visitors. However, as part of our privacy and security policy, we require your consent to use them.

To withdraw your consent, or if you want to be notified each time a cookie is about to be used, you should amend the settings provided in your web browser to prevent us from storing cookies on your computer's hard drive. For information on how to disable cookies, please consult the "Help" tab of your browser via the menu bar.

It must be noted that if you choose not to consent to the use of cookies, your experience of our site will be severely impaired and many integral aspects of the site, including (but not limited to) adding items to your shopping cart and accessing your account, may not work at all.

Our use of advertisement tracking

We allow selected third parties (google) to participate with us in marketing programmes. They may place cookies when you visit our site. These cookies enable the monitoring of which adverts you see and click on to get to our site and may also used to provide advertising on our website which is relevant to you but we stress that these cookies are as safe as any used whilst you browse our site and none of these third parties collects any personal data from which they would be able to identify individual customers.

We also utilise google analytics on our site. Google analytics sets a cookie when you open this site.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of third parties or other websites.