Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, remember your preferences and provide information to website owners.

Similar technologies include pixel tags, web beacons and local storage. In this policy we use the term 'cookies' to cover all of these technologies.

Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to work, for example to remember your cookie choices and keep forms secure. They do not require consent and cannot be switched off.

Analytics Cookies

With your consent, we use Google Analytics (through Google Tag Manager) to understand how visitors use our website, which pages are most popular and how people find us. This helps us improve our website and content.

Functional Cookies

Our live chat provider, Tawk.to, uses cookies to keep your chat conversation going as you move between pages and to remember whether you have closed the chat window.

Marketing Cookies

With your consent, we use cookies from advertising platforms (including Google Ads and Meta Pixel) to show you relevant adverts on other websites and to measure how well our campaigns work. These cookies may track your browsing across websites.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services we use. These providers have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we encourage you to read:

• Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics, website traffic analysis (policies.google.com)
• Google Ads, conversion tracking and remarketing (policies.google.com)
• Meta Pixel, Facebook and Instagram advertising (facebook.com/privacy/policy)
• Tawk.to, live chat support (tawk.to/privacy-policy)

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time:

• Cookie banner: when you first visit our website, you can accept or reject non-essential cookies. Analytics and marketing cookies stay off unless you accept them.
• Changing your mind: clear the cookies for our website in your browser and the banner will appear again so you can make a new choice.
• Browser settings: most browsers let you block or delete cookies in their settings. Blocking all cookies may affect how our website works.
• Advertising choices: you can manage interest-based advertising through your Google and Meta account settings or at youronlinechoices.eu.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the cookies we use or in the law. When we do, we will update the 'Last updated' date at the top of this page.

Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at info@spinespublishing.co.uk.