Cookie Policy

DO WE USE ‘COOKIES’ AND WHAT ARE THEY?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

For instance, Dorothy Martin may use cookies to help remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us to understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables Dorothy Martin to provide you with improved services.

Dorothy Martin also use cookies to help compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

WHAT COOKIES ARE USED ON THIS SITE?

The cookies we use on our Site are broadly grouped into the following categories:

• Essential – Some of the cookies on our Site are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this could be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account on our Site or which allows communication between your browser and our Site. Our cookie preference cookie described in the section “How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?” is also an essential cookie. You may not be able to use our Site without these cookies. 

• Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our Site. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our Site or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited our Site once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our Site was performing and improve it without these cookies. 

• User Cookies – We use cookies to improve your experience by remembering your preferences so we know how you like to use our Site. Examples of this would be remembering you so that you are served with the same content or to remember you when you come back to our Site. 

• Social Sharing – We use third party cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook and Instagram. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about us or our products or services. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section below for more details. 

HOW CAN I REJECT OR OPT OUT OF RECEIVING COOKIES?

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you use our Site. The “Help” menu of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive visit the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Some of the cookies described in the “What Cookies are used on our Site” section above are stored on your machine by third parties when you use our Site. Third parties may also read cookies on your browser to collect information or to serve content or advertisements to you. We have no control over these cookies or how the third parties use them. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us, for example analytics. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see:

• Internet Advertising Bureau website at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ where you will be able to opt-out of receiving Interest-Based Advertising cookies from some of the third parties listed below; and/or
• If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium’s website.

OTHER WEBSITES

This website contains links to other websites.

Dorothy Martin is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

CONTACT DOROTHY MARTIN

If you have any questions about this cookie policy, please write:

• by email to info@dorothymartin.com

ENGLISH LAW

The Website and its contents are governed by English law.