Cookie Settings

About Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies to help the site work properly, remember certain preferences and, where enabled, understand how visitors use the website.

Cookies are small files stored on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies may also be used to store or access information on your device. UK privacy rules cover cookies and other technologies such as scripts, tags, web storage and tracking technologies.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function and do not require your consent.

Other cookies are optional and will only be used where the appropriate consent has been given.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the Cookie Settings controls available on this website.

Essential Cookies

Always active

Essential cookies are required for the basic operation and security of the website.

They may be used to:

• keep the website functioning correctly;
• remember your cookie choices;
• provide security features;
• operate forms or other services you specifically request;
• maintain basic website functionality.

These cookies cannot normally be switched off because they are necessary to provide the website or service you have requested.

The ICO recognises an exception where storage or access is strictly necessary to provide an online service requested by the visitor.

Preference and Functional Cookies

Optional

These cookies help the website remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

They may include features such as:

• remembering language preferences;
• remembering display choices;
• remembering selected website settings;
• supporting translation or other optional website features.

If these cookies are disabled, some optional features may not work as expected.

Setting:

Allow Preference & Functional Cookies

Analytics Cookies

Optional

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Sharon’s House.

They may collect information such as:

• which pages are visited;
• how visitors move around the website;
• how long visitors spend on pages;
• which type of device or browser is used;
• how visitors arrived at the website.

This information may be used to understand website performance and improve the visitor experience.

Analytics cookies will only be used where the required consent has been given.

Setting:
☐ Allow Analytics Cookies

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Optional

Sharon’s House does not currently intend to use the website primarily for behavioural advertising.

However, marketing or advertising cookies may be introduced in the future if services such as advertising platforms, remarketing tools or social media advertising integrations are added.

These cookies could be used to:

• measure advertising performance;
• understand whether an advert resulted in a website visit;
• show more relevant advertising;
• limit how often an advert is shown;
• support advertising or remarketing campaigns.

Where these cookies are used, they will not be activated without the required consent.

Setting:
☐ Allow Marketing & Advertising Cookies

Third-Party Cookies

Some website features may be supplied by third parties.

These could include:

• IONOS services;
• translation tools;
• maps;
• embedded media;
• social media services;
• booking services;
• payment services;
• analytics tools.

A third-party service may set its own cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with that feature.

Where consent is required for those technologies, they should not be activated until consent has been provided.

Third-party providers may have their own privacy and cookie policies, and we recommend reviewing those policies where appropriate.

Your Cookie Choices

You can choose to:

Accept All
Allow all available optional cookies.

Reject Optional Cookies
Use only essential cookies that are necessary for the website to function.

Customise Settings
Choose which optional categories you wish to allow.

Your decision will not affect your ability to access the basic Sharon’s House website.

The ICO recommends that refusing optional cookies should be as easy as accepting them and that non-essential technologies should not be activated before valid consent is given.

Changing Your Mind

You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time by reopening Cookie Settings on the Sharon’s House website.

Changing your settings will affect future use of optional cookies.

You may also be able to remove cookies that have already been stored by changing your browser settings or clearing your browser history.

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.

Please note that blocking essential cookies may affect the operation of some websites or online services.

How Long Cookies Last

Different cookies may remain on your device for different periods.

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

Others may remain for a defined period so that the website can remember a setting or preference when you return.

Where cookies are used, information about their purpose, provider and duration should be available through the website’s cookie-management system where technically available. Current ICO guidance expects organisations to consider what technologies are used, their purpose, any third parties involved and how long information is stored or accessed.

Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies may involve the processing of personal information.

Where this happens, our use of that information will also be governed by our Privacy Policy.

You can read the Privacy Policy for more information about:

• the information we collect;
• how we use it;
• who we may share it with;
• how long we keep it;
• your rights.

Changes to Our Cookie Settings

We may update our cookie practices as the Sharon’s House website develops.

This may happen if:

• new website features are added;
• new third-party services are introduced;
• analytics or advertising services are added;
• the law or regulatory guidance changes.

Where appropriate, the cookie settings and consent options will be updated accordingly.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, contact:

Sharon Abraham
Sharon’s House

Email: info@sharons.house
Website: www.sharons.house