Cookie Policy
Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Stow & Settle, operated by Bedcare Ltd, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit stowandsettle.co.uk.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect and use personal information.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites can store on your computer, smartphone or other device when you visit them.
They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what's in your shopping basket, keeping the website secure, remembering preferences and helping us understand how visitors use our website.
The rules can also apply to other technologies that store information on or access information from your device, such as pixels and similar tracking technologies.
2. How we use cookies
Stow & Settle may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Make our Shopify store function correctly
- Keep the website and checkout secure
- Remember your shopping basket and preferences
- Understand how visitors use our website
- Measure the performance of our website and marketing
- Improve the customer experience
- Remember your cookie choices
- Support advertising and marketing where you have permitted this
Not every type of cookie requires consent. Where consent is required, optional technologies will only be used in accordance with the choices you make through our cookie controls.
3. Strictly necessary cookies
Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for our website and online store to function.
These may be used for purposes such as:
Shopping basket and checkout
Remembering products you've added to your basket and allowing you to complete a purchase.
Security
Helping protect our website, customers and transactions.
Authentication
Recognising customers where account or login functionality is used.
Network and website functionality
Allowing important parts of the Shopify store to operate correctly.
Cookie preferences
Remembering the choices you've made about optional cookies.
Where an applicable legal exception means consent isn't required for a technology that is necessary to provide a service you've requested, it may operate without your prior consent.
4. Analytics and performance
We may use analytics technologies to understand how customers use Stow & Settle.
Depending on the tools we use, this may help us understand information such as:
- How many people visit the website
- Which pages are most popular
- How visitors navigate through the website
- How visitors found Stow & Settle
- How the website performs on different devices
- Whether customers encounter problems while using the site
- How customers interact with products and content
We use this information to improve our website, products and customer experience.
Where consent is required for the analytics technology we use, it will only operate after the appropriate choice has been made through our cookie controls.
5. Advertising and marketing
We may use advertising and marketing technologies to understand the effectiveness of our advertising and, where applicable, deliver more relevant advertising.
For example, in the future we may use services provided by platforms such as Google or Meta.
Depending on the services enabled, these technologies may help us:
- Measure whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit or purchase
- Understand the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
- Build advertising audiences
- Avoid showing irrelevant advertisements
- Show advertising to people who have previously interacted with Stow & Settle
Advertising and behavioural tracking technologies generally require appropriate consent before being placed or accessed.
You can control your choices using our cookie preferences.
6. Functional cookies
Functional technologies may be used to provide additional features or remember choices you've made.
For example, they could help with:
- Remembering website preferences
- Providing enhanced customer-service functionality
- Remembering certain selections
- Supporting embedded website features
Where consent is required, these technologies won't be used until you've made the appropriate choice.
7. Third-party services
Our website is built using Shopify and may use services provided by other organisations.
Depending on the services we enable, third parties may set or access cookies or similar technologies when you use Stow & Settle.
These could include providers involved in:
Shopify — ecommerce, checkout and website functionality
Payment providers — payment and transaction functionality
Google — analytics, advertising or conversion measurement where enabled
Meta — advertising or conversion measurement where enabled
Review platforms — product and customer review functionality where enabled
Video platforms — where embedded video content is used
The exact services and technologies used may change as we develop the website.
Where required, we'll update our cookie controls and this policy to reflect material changes.
8. How long do cookies last?
Different cookies remain on your device for different periods.
Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them.
The duration depends on the purpose of the particular cookie or technology.
Where practical, details about the technologies currently used and their duration should be available through our cookie preferences tool.
The ICO recommends identifying whether technologies are session or persistent, first or third party, their purpose, and how long they last.
9. Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit Stow & Settle, you'll be given choices about applicable optional cookies and similar technologies.
Our cookie controls should allow you to:
Accept optional cookies
Reject optional cookies
Manage your preferences
You can change your choices later by reopening Cookie Preferences on our website.
Where consent is legally required, it must involve a clear positive choice; simply continuing to browse a website isn't sufficient consent.
10. Browser settings
You can also manage cookies using your web browser.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block some or all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Clear cookies when the browser closes
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the Stow & Settle website, basket or checkout from working correctly.
11. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we change the technologies or services used by Stow & Settle or where legal or regulatory requirements change.
The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.
12. More information about your privacy
For more information about how Stow & Settle collects, uses and protects personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
If you have questions about our use of cookies or personal information, contact:
Stow & Settle / Bedcare Ltd
Email: hello@stowandsettle.co.uk
Registered address: West Holme Nursery, 65 Staion Road North, Walpole Cross Keys, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE34 4HB
Company number: 09500277