SELWOOD AUCTIONS

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Selwood Auctions uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we collect and use personal information.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, mobile telephone or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can perform a number of functions. They may be necessary for a website to operate, remember your preferences, maintain your account or bidding session, help us understand how visitors use our website or support other website features.

Some cookies remain on your device only for the duration of your visit, while others may remain for a specified period after you leave the website.

How Selwood Auctions Uses Cookies

The Selwood Auctions website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• enable the website to operate correctly;

• provide security and help prevent fraud;

• enable account registration and login;

• support online bidding, purchasing and other transactional functions;

• remember preferences and settings;

• understand how visitors use the website;

• monitor website performance and identify technical problems; and

• support other functions you have requested.

The particular cookies used will depend on the services and technology operating on the Selwood Auctions website.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for the website and its services to function correctly.

These may be used for purposes such as security, account login, maintaining a shopping basket, processing transactions, remembering cookie choices or enabling an online bidding process to operate.

Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested, your consent may not be required for their use.

Disabling strictly necessary cookies through your browser may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

Analytics Cookies

With your consent where required, we may use analytics cookies to understand how visitors use the Selwood Auctions website.

These cookies may help us understand information such as which pages are visited, how visitors arrive at the website, how long they spend on particular pages and whether they encounter technical problems.

We use this information to understand and improve the performance and usefulness of our website.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced or more personalised features.

These might include remembering certain preferences, settings or information so that you do not need to enter them repeatedly.

Where required by law, these cookies will only be used with your consent.

Marketing Cookies

If Selwood Auctions uses advertising or marketing cookies, these may be used to understand the effectiveness of marketing or to provide more relevant communications or advertising.

Where consent is required, marketing cookies will not be placed unless you choose to accept them.

If Selwood Auctions does not use advertising or behavioural marketing cookies, this section may be removed from the final policy.

Third-Party Cookies

Some features of the Selwood Auctions website may be provided by third parties.

These may include providers of:

• online bidding services;

• payment processing;

• website analytics;

• embedded maps;

• video or other media;

• social-media functionality; and

• other website services.

These providers may place or access cookies when you use the relevant feature. Their use of information will be governed by their own privacy and cookie policies where they act independently of Selwood Auctions.

Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit the Selwood Auctions website, you may be given the opportunity to accept or reject non-essential cookies and to manage your preferences.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time using [insert link or name of cookie settings tool].

You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser. The method for doing this varies between browsers.

Please be aware that blocking certain cookies may affect the operation of the website and prevent some services or features from working correctly.

How Long Cookies Are Stored

Different cookies remain on your device for different periods.

Session cookies are generally deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.

The duration of individual cookies should be shown through our cookie settings tool or cookie table where applicable.

Cookies Used on This Website

Before this policy is published, this section should be completed using the actual cookies identified on the Selwood Auctions website.

The information should include, where applicable:

Cookie name: [insert]
Provider: [insert]
Purpose: [insert]
Category: Strictly Necessary / Analytics / Functional / Marketing
Duration: [insert]

The list should be reviewed periodically, particularly when new website, bidding, payment, analytics or marketing services are introduced.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the Selwood Auctions website, the technologies we use or applicable legal requirements.

The current version will be published on this page and the date of the most recent update will be shown below.

Contact

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:

Selwood Auctions
[Full legal company name]
[Business address]
[Email address]
[Telephone number]

Last updated: [Month Year]