Cookie Policy

Kernow Coal & Fires Limited
Last Updated: 16/06/2025

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit our website. They help us provide you with a better browsing experience by remembering your preferences and understanding how you use our site.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for different purposes, which we've grouped into categories below. You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie banner when you first visit our site, or by adjusting your browser settings.

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Necessary Cookies (Always Active)

These cookies are essential for our website to function properly and cannot be disabled. They include:

Squarespace Platform Cookies

  • Purpose: Enable basic website functionality, security, and hosting services

  • Data Collected: Session information, security tokens, load balancing data

  • Provider: Squarespace (our website hosting platform)

  • Retention: Session-based (deleted when you close your browser) or up to 1 year

These cookies allow Squarespace to securely serve our website to you and are necessary for the site to work.

2. Analytics and Performance Cookies (Requires Consent)

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it.

Google Analytics

  • Purpose: Analyse website traffic, user behaviour, and site performance

  • Data Collected:

    • Pages visited and time spent on pages

    • How you arrived at our site

    • Device and browser information

    • IP address (anonymised)

    • Click patterns and scrolling behaviour

  • Provider: Google LLC

  • Retention: 26 months

  • Opt-out: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

Squarespace Analytics

  • Purpose: Provide us with website traffic and activity data

  • Data Collected:

    • Information about your browser, network, and device

    • Web pages you visited before coming to our website

    • Pages visited, clicks, internal links followed

    • Scrolling behaviour, searches, timestamps

    • IP address

  • Provider: Squarespace

  • Retention: As per Squarespace's data retention policy

3. Marketing and Advertising Cookies (Requires Consent)

These cookies are used for advertising and remarketing purposes.

Meta Pixel (Facebook)

  • Purpose:

    • Track conversions from Facebook/Instagram ads

    • Create custom audiences for advertising

    • Optimise ad delivery to people likely to be interested in our products

  • Data Collected:

    • Website interactions and page views

    • Product views and purchases

    • Custom events (e.g., form submissions, button clicks)

    • Device and browser information

  • Provider: Meta Platforms Inc.

  • Retention: As per Meta's data retention policy

  • Opt-out: Facebook Ad Preferences

Google Ads and Google Tag Manager

  • Purpose:

    • Measure advertising effectiveness

    • Remarketing to previous website visitors

    • Conversion tracking

  • Data Collected:

    • Website interactions and conversions

    • Device and browser information

    • Ad interaction data

  • Provider: Google LLC

  • Retention: As per Google's advertising data retention policies

  • Opt-out: Google Ads Settings

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Cookie Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie banner that allows you to:

  • Accept All - Consent to all cookies

  • Decline - Only necessary cookies will be used

  • Manage Preferences - Choose which categories of cookies to accept

Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your browser settings:

  • Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Site Settings > Cookies

  • Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data

  • Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data

  • Edge: Settings > Privacy, Search, and Services > Cookies

Note: Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

Third-Party Opt-Outs

You can opt out of tracking by third-party services directly:

Withdrawing Consent

You can withdraw your consent for non-essential cookies at any time by:

  • Clearing your browser cookies

  • Adjusting your browser settings

  • Contacting us using the details below

Withdrawing consent will not affect any processing that occurred before you withdrew consent.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, regulatory, or operational reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

Rae Sheldon - Data Protection Contact
Email: rae@kernowfires.co.uk
Phone: 01208 812527
Address: Unit 2, Trenant Industrial Estate, Wadebridge, Cornwall PL27 6HB

For more information about how we process your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 16/06/2025. Please check this page regularly for updates.