This privacy policy sets out how SHEMINS LTD uses and protects any information that you give to SHEMINS LTD when you use this website.
SHEMINS LTD is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website then you can be assured that it will be only used in accordance with this privacy statement.
SHEMINS LTD may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
We collect the following information:
We do not store credit card details.
We require this information to understand your needs and to provide you with a better service and in particular for the following reasons:
By visiting this website with your browser settings adjusted to allow cookies, you are consenting to SHEMINS LTD using cookies for the purposes outlined below in order to provide you with a fully functional shopping experience.
Please note: to make full use of SHEMINS LTD and to benefit from certain personalised features, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to be set up to accept cookies. The SHEMINS LTD website (like many other shopping websites) will not work when cookies are blocked.
SHEMINS LTD uses cookies to provide you with the best user experience possible, without them we wouldn’t be able to do things such as remember your preferences or enable you to store products in your basket. The cookies we use don’t store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details and they can’t harm your computer.
The data we collect through these cookies is solely for the purpose of enhancing our website and your browsing experience – it is never used to identify you and we would never share or sell on this data.
The list below details the cookies used on SHEMINS LTD. We have outlined who sets these cookies and their purpose. If the party reads something other than ‘SHEMINS LTD’, these are our third party business partners who help us to enhance your browsing experience.
| Category | Party | Purpose |
| Strictly necessary | SHEMINS LTD | SHEMINS LTD uses cookies to enable some of the basic functionality that is required for you to browse and shop on our website, such as remembering which products you have added to your basket. The information collected through these cookies is only used for this purpose and is never shared or sold on to third parties. |
| Performance | Google Adwords | Google Adwords use cookies to track our own paid advertising activity. We use the information collected by these cookies to help us determine where our ads will be most effective online. Each individual advertiser uses its own tracking cookies and the data taken is not confidential data or interchangeable. |
| Performance | Google Analytics | Google Analytics use cookies to collect data that helps us understand how people are using the site. We use this information to identify how and where we can improve the customer experience. The data collected through these cookies is anonymous, does not collect specific customer data and is never shared with other third parties. |
When using our website, we may create a browser cookie, or initiate a ‘session’ between your computer and our server to distinguish you from other users of our website. If we create a cookie, we might store information in this cookie such as your website username. If we initiate a session, such information is stored for a short time on our servers under a unique identifier and this identifier is stored in a ‘session cookie’ by your browser. Sessions are expired after a period of about 20 minutes from your last activity on the website, at which point any data stored is erased. Cookies and sessions help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our site.
Our websites use Google Analytics to record and report on analytical information, such as the number of visits we receive during a particular time period or the ratio of desktop and mobile visits. Google Analytics creates the following cookies to store and collect aggregate information and transmits this aggregate information to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings within your web browser settings, however, please note that doing so may disrupt some functionality of our website.
You may opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser extension but please be aware that doing so reduces the accuracy of our website analytics and might make it more difficult for us to provide a useful service. For example if we determine that a feature of our website is rarely used we might replace that feature without knowing that a number of visitors actually do appreciate that feature but have opted out of analytical tracking.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file which is downloaded and stored on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit.
Your browser accesses the cookie file only when you visit the website that generated it. This helps to ease your navigation by automatically logging you in and remembering things like your preferences and what’s in your shopping basket. Cookies allow sites like SHEMINS LTD to deliver you a personalised shopping experience.
The information stored within any given cookie can only be accessed by the website that created it and cookies are limited to communicating only the information that you have disclosed to the site.
If you no longer wish to receive any further email messages, post or other communications from us please email us at info@shemins.co.uk