Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Pewter World uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.pewterworld.co.uk.
It explains:
- What cookies are.
- Which types of cookies we use.
- Why we use them.
- How long they may remain on your device.
- How you can accept, reject or manage them.
For information about how we collect and use personal information, please read our Privacy Notice.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, tablet, smartphone or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help a website:
- Remember the contents of a shopping basket.
- Keep a customer signed in.
- Remember preferences and privacy choices.
- Process payments securely.
- Measure website performance.
- Understand how visitors use the website.
- Measure advertising and marketing campaigns.
Cookies do not normally contain information such as your full name or postal address. However, cookie identifiers and related information may still constitute personal data when they can identify or distinguish a particular device or visitor.
Types of Cookies
Cookies may be:
Session Cookies
These normally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies
These remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
First-Party Cookies
These are set by Pewter World through www.pewterworld.co.uk.
Third-Party Cookies
These are set by an external service used on our website, such as a payment, analytics, security or advertising provider.
How We Use Cookies
We divide cookies into the following categories.
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website and online shop to function properly.
They may be used to:
- Maintain the contents of your shopping basket.
- Keep you signed into your account.
- Process checkout and payment.
- Prevent fraud and protect website security.
- Remember your cookie choices.
- Maintain essential website sessions.
- Balance website traffic and prevent technical errors.
Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie controls because the website or checkout may not work correctly without them.
Consent is not required for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the customer.
Strictly necessary cookies used on our website may include:
| Cookie or provider | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| PrestaShop session cookie | Maintains the shopping basket, customer session and checkout | Session or limited persistent period |
| Cookie-consent cookie | Remembers your cookie choices | Normally up to 12 months |
| Stripe cookies | Payment processing, fraud prevention and checkout security | Session to approximately one year |
| Google reCAPTCHA cookies | Protects forms and the website from spam and automated abuse | Session or limited persistent period |
| Security and hosting cookies | Website protection, traffic management and fraud prevention | Session or limited persistent period |
Cookie names may vary when website modules or security services are updated.
2. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow optional features and preferences to work.
They may be used to:
- Remember display, language or regional preferences.
- Retain information entered into certain forms.
- Support enhanced website-search functions.
- Remember selected website features.
- Support social sign-in where requested by the customer.
Functional cookies are only used where permitted. Rejecting them may mean that some optional features do not work as expected.
Providers may include PrestaShop modules, Doofinder and social sign-in services.
3. Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may collect information about:
- Pages visited.
- Time spent on the website.
- Links and buttons selected.
- Device and browser type.
- Approximate location.
- Referring websites.
- Website errors.
- Navigation and checkout behaviour.
- General interaction with website pages.
We use this information to measure performance, identify problems and improve the shopping experience.
These cookies are not strictly necessary and will only be used after the required permission has been obtained.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics helps us understand website traffic and visitor behaviour.
Cookies may include:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
Distinguishes website visitors | Up to two years |
_ga_* |
Maintains information about an Analytics session | Up to two years |
Browser restrictions or our chosen settings may shorten these periods. Google provides further information in its GA4 cookie guidance.
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity helps us understand how visitors interact with pages, including navigation patterns and technical usability problems.
Clarity may use session-recording and interaction information. We configure it to avoid intentionally collecting information entered into sensitive payment fields.
Cookies may include:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
_clck |
Retains a unique Clarity visitor identifier and preferences | Up to one year |
_clsk |
Connects page views into a single Clarity session | Approximately one day |
CLID |
Identifies when Clarity first encountered a browser | Up to one year |
MUID |
Identifies unique browsers visiting Microsoft services | Up to one year |
ANONCHK, MR and SM |
Support Clarity and Microsoft session or identifier functions | Session to a limited persistent period |
Microsoft explains these cookies in its Clarity cookie documentation.
4. Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to:
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising.
- Record visits resulting from advertisements.
- Build advertising audiences.
- Limit how often an advertisement is shown.
- Show advertising that may be more relevant.
- Measure sales or other actions resulting from campaigns.
These cookies are not essential and will only be used after the required permission has been obtained.
Meta Pixel
We may use the Meta Pixel to measure visits and purchases resulting from Facebook or Instagram advertising.
Cookies may include:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
_fbp |
Identifies browsers for advertising measurement and attribution | Approximately three months |
_fbc |
Records information associated with a visit from a Meta advertisement | Approximately three months |
Meta may combine information received from our website with information held through its own services, subject to Meta’s privacy terms.
Google Advertising and Measurement
Where enabled, Google advertising services may use cookies to measure advertising performance and record visits or sales resulting from advertisements.
The exact cookies used depend on which Google advertising features are active and the choices made through our cookie banner.
Pewter World does not use Google AdSense to display third-party advertisements on product pages unless expressly stated otherwise.
Payment and Security Cookies
Our payment services are provided through Stripe. Stripe may place cookies or use similar technologies to:
- Process payments.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions.
- Remember a device during checkout.
- Protect the payment system.
- Provide supported payment methods.
Stripe cookies may include:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
__stripe_mid |
Fraud prevention and payment security | Up to one year |
__stripe_sid |
Fraud prevention during a payment session | Approximately 30 minutes |
Certain payment cookies are strictly necessary when you use checkout and cannot be disabled without preventing payment processing.
Managing Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit our website, our cookie banner allows you to:
- Accept optional cookies.
- Reject optional cookies.
- Choose individual cookie categories.
Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent you from browsing the website or placing an order, although certain optional features may be limited.
You can change your choices at any time using the cookie-settings link displayed on our website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of cookie use that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Browser Controls
You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- View stored cookies.
- Delete individual or all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Block all cookies.
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
Blocking all cookies may prevent the shopping basket, customer account or checkout from working correctly.
Browser instructions are available from:
Changes to Cookies
The cookies used on our website may change when we:
- Update PrestaShop or website modules.
- Change payment or delivery services.
- Add, remove or update analytics tools.
- Modify advertising campaigns.
- Improve security or website functionality.
Our cookie-management panel should provide the most current list detected on your device.
We will update this policy when there is a significant change to how cookies are used.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact:
Pewter World
14 Mannington Road
Roebuck Park
Hellingly
BN27 4DQ
United Kingdom
Email: help@pewterworld.co.uk
Further information about personal-data rights and how to complain is provided in our Privacy Notice.
Last Updated: 19 July 2026