Cookie Policy

1. Contact and scope

This Cookie Policy applies to loraventhessique.com, operated by Zunarethivessia Apiary Ltd, 42 Meadow Lane, Shrewsbury, SY2 5PE, United Kingdom. Questions can be sent to info@loraventhessique.com.

It explains how cookies and similar storage or access technologies may be used when you visit the website, and how UK rules apply to technologies that store information on or access information from a user’s device.

2. What cookies and similar technologies are

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website can ask a browser to store and return later. Similar technologies can perform related functions, for example by storing a preference locally or assigning a short-lived identifier. The legal treatment depends on what the technology does and why it is used, not only on the label given to it.

Cookies may be session-based, disappearing when a browser session ends, or persistent, remaining for a defined period. They may be set directly by the website being visited or by another service whose functionality has been deliberately integrated into that website.

3. UK legal framework

In the United Kingdom, PECR contains rules about storing information on, or accessing information from, a user’s device. In general, non-essential cookies and similar technologies require clear information and valid consent before they are used. Technologies that are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user can fall within an exemption from the consent requirement.

Where information obtained through a cookie or similar technology is personal data, the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 also apply to the subsequent processing of that data. A lawful basis under data protection law does not automatically replace a PECR consent requirement where PECR requires consent.

4. Technologies used by this website

The current public website is designed to operate without advertising cookies, behavioural profiling cookies or non-essential analytics cookies. Core page navigation, content display, the contact form interface and address information do not require advertising identifiers.

Infrastructure used to host or secure the site may generate ordinary server logs and may, depending on the hosting configuration, use strictly necessary technical mechanisms for security, traffic management or session integrity. Where such a mechanism is essential to deliver the service requested by the visitor, it may fall within the strictly necessary exemption. We still aim to keep such use proportionate.

5. Cookie categories we recognise

Strictly necessary

These are technologies required for a feature or service explicitly requested by the user, or for a closely connected security or communication function. Where the legal exemption applies, consent may not be required, although clear information remains good practice.

Preferences

Preference technologies remember a choice such as language or interface settings. If a preference is not strictly necessary to a user-requested service, consent may be required before it is stored.

Analytics

Analytics technologies measure how a website is used. They can involve device identifiers or other information and should not be assumed to be exempt merely because the data is aggregated later. Non-essential analytics will not be activated unless the applicable legal conditions, including consent where required, are met.

Advertising and profiling

Advertising or cross-site profiling technologies are not part of the current public website. If this changes, this policy and any consent controls will be updated before such technologies are used where consent is required.

6. Consent and your choices

If we introduce non-essential cookies or similar technologies, they will be presented through an appropriate choice mechanism before they are activated where UK law requires prior consent. Consent should be specific, informed and capable of being withdrawn as easily as it is given.

Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent access to ordinary content. A genuinely necessary feature may still rely on an exempt technology where that technology is essential to provide the feature the user has requested.

7. Browser controls

Most browsers provide settings for viewing, deleting, restricting or blocking cookies. Those settings operate independently of any website-specific consent choice. Blocking all cookies can affect features on some websites, including features that depend on strictly necessary session information.

Browser settings do not always control every form of local storage or every technology that can access device information, so website-level controls remain important when non-essential technologies are used.

8. Third-party services

The current website avoids embedded advertising, external video players and third-party mapping widgets. This reduces the number of external services that could otherwise set or read information from a visitor’s device.

If a third-party service is added in the future, we will assess whether it introduces cookies or similar technologies, whether those technologies are essential, what information they collect, and what consent or contractual measures are required before deployment.

9. Duration and retention

Any cookie or similar identifier should remain only for as long as is justified by its purpose. Session technologies should normally expire when the relevant session ends. Persistent technologies should have a defined lifetime that reflects the need for the feature rather than an unnecessarily long default period.

Personal data derived from cookies is subject to the retention principles described in our Privacy Policy.

10. Updates to this policy

We will review this Cookie Policy if the website introduces new analytics, marketing, embedded media, booking, payment or other third-party functionality. The published policy should reflect the technologies actually in use rather than a generic list of services that are not present.