Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Nicol Retailer Limited uses cookies and similar technologies, why they may be used and how you can review or change your preferences when visiting our website.
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Introduction
Nicol Retailer Limited may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit nicolretailer.com. These technologies help our website operate, remember selected preferences, understand website activity and support optional advertising services where the relevant permissions have been provided.
When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent tool allowing you to accept, reject or customise non-essential cookie categories.
Non-essential cookies should only operate in accordance with the preferences recorded through our cookie-consent mechanism.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise your browser, remember information and provide selected features.
Cookies may be set directly by Nicol Retailer Limited as first-party cookies, or by an external provider whose services are used on the website as third-party cookies.
Session and persistent cookies
- Session cookies usually expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a stated period or until you remove them.
Why We Use Cookies
Depending on your preferences and the services operating on our website, cookies may be used to:
- operate important website and security functions;
- support customer accounts, checkout and payment processes;
- remember selected website preferences;
- understand page visits and website performance;
- identify technical issues and improve usability;
- measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns; and
- display advertising that may be more relevant to your interests where permitted.
How Cookies May Be Used on Our Website
The cookies active during your visit will depend on the website services in use and the preferences selected through our cookie-consent tool.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential website functions such as security, navigation, account access, checkout and transaction processing. The website may not function properly without them.
RequiredFunctional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember choices you make and support a more convenient or personalised website experience.
Consent may be requiredAnalytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website, including pages viewed, referral sources and website performance.
Subject to preferencesAdvertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may help measure campaigns, limit repeated adverts and support advertising connected with products or pages you have shown an interest in.
Consent requiredGoogle Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Nicol Retailer website. Information collected may include page views, referral sources, browsing activity, approximate session duration, device information and interactions with website features.
This information may help us evaluate which content and products are useful, identify performance issues and improve the overall website experience.
For further information about how Google handles information, review Google’s Privacy Policy .
Google Ads and Advertising
Nicol Retailer Limited may use Google Ads conversion measurement, campaign reporting and remarketing technologies. These services may help us understand whether advertising directs visitors to our website and may support advertising shown to people who previously visited selected pages.
Advertising technologies should operate in accordance with the preferences selected through our cookie-consent platform.
You can review Google’s advertising controls through Google Ads Settings .
Third-Party Services
Certain website features may be supplied by external providers. Depending on the services enabled, third parties may place cookies or use similar technologies when payment services, measurement tools, embedded content, customer support or advertising features operate.
External providers are responsible for their own privacy and cookie practices. We recommend reviewing their policies where relevant.
The table below should be checked against the live website and the active cookie-consent platform. Add, remove or amend entries so the information accurately reflects the technologies currently operating.
| Provider | Purpose | Category | Examples | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | Supports core website functions, security, administration, login status and website preferences. | Strictly necessary / functional | Cookie names vary according to the active WordPress configuration, theme and installed plugins. | Session or as configured |
| Google Analytics | Measures website visits, page activity, referral sources and website performance. | Analytics |
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Confirm against the active Google Analytics configuration. |
| Google Ads | Supports conversion measurement, advertising performance and remarketing where the required consent has been provided. | Advertising | Cookie names vary according to the advertising services enabled. | Confirm against the active Google Ads configuration. |
| Cookie-consent provider | Records visitors’ cookie preferences and may help prevent optional technologies from loading before consent. | Strictly necessary | Replace with the verified cookies used by the active consent-management platform. | Confirm with the consent-platform provider. |
| Payment and security providers | May support secure payments, fraud prevention, authentication and transaction security. | Strictly necessary | Cookie names depend on the payment and security services used. | Confirm with each provider. |
| Embedded and external services | May support maps, videos, social content, customer support, communications or other external website features. | Functional / analytics / advertising | Cookie names depend on the external services enabled. | Confirm with each provider. |
Services to include in the website audit
- WordPress, theme and plugin cookies
- Google Analytics and Google Ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Pixel, where installed
- PayPal and other payment providers
- Fraud-prevention and website-security services
- Embedded videos, maps and social content
- Email marketing and customer-support tools
- The active cookie-consent platform
- Any other third-party scripts operating on the website
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can use our cookie-consent tool to accept, reject or customise optional cookie categories. Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing essential website functions, although certain optional features may not operate as intended.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. The process varies between browsers and devices, so consult your browser’s help section for detailed instructions.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this policy when website services, technologies, legal requirements or our use of cookies changes. Any revised version will be published on this page.
We recommend reviewing this page periodically for the latest information about our use of cookies and similar technologies.
1 August 2026
Questions About Cookies or Privacy?
Contact Nicol Retailer Limited if you have a question about this Cookie Policy, your preferences or how information collected through the website is used.
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