Cookie Policy
This page explains, in plain English, how cookies and similar website technologies may be used on the SAFSAL STATIONERY website and how you can manage your preferences.
1. What This Policy Covers
SAFSAL STATIONERY uses cookies and similar website technologies to help the website work properly, remember certain choices and understand how visitors use the site.
This policy explains what these technologies are, the main reasons they may be used, how long they may remain on your device and the choices available to you.
We aim to keep this simple. We do not use cookies simply for the sake of collecting information. Each type should have a practical purpose connected with running, improving or maintaining the website.
2. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website can place on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a page.
Cookies can help a website remember information between pages or between visits. Some cookies are temporary and disappear when you close your browser. Others remain for a set period before they expire or are removed.
Cookies do not normally contain information such as your name or postal address by themselves. Their actual contents depend on how a particular website feature has been configured.
3. How We Use Cookies
Depending on the features active on the website, cookies may be used for the following purposes:
4. Essential Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for basic website functions. These cookies generally cannot be switched off through an ordinary website preference setting because removing them may prevent parts of the website from working properly.
For example, essential cookies may help maintain a shopping session, remember items placed in a basket, support checkout functions or maintain basic website security.
5. Optional Cookies
Where the website uses cookies that are not required for basic operation, these may be treated as optional depending on their purpose and the applicable rules.
Where consent is required, optional cookies will not be placed before the relevant choice has been provided.
If you choose not to allow optional cookies, the main shopping and browsing functions of the website should remain available, although certain additional features may work differently.
6. Cookie Duration
Cookies do not all remain on your device for the same length of time. Their duration depends on what they are used for.
| Cookie period | Typical duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Session cookies | Until the browser session ends | Used for temporary website functions and maintaining certain actions while you browse. |
| Short-term cookies | Up to 30 days | Used where a short period is sufficient for a particular preference or website function. |
| Longer-term cookies | Up to 12 months | Used where a longer period is reasonably needed for a particular website preference or measurement function. |
The actual expiry period can vary depending on the cookie and the website feature using it. We do not keep a cookie active for longer than is reasonably required for its stated purpose.
7. Cookies Used by Website Features
Some pages or functions may use third-party website services. Where such a service places cookies or similar technologies, those technologies are controlled by the relevant provider and may have their own policies.
The presence of a third-party feature does not mean that every visitor receives every possible cookie from that provider. The cookies actually used depend on which website functions are active at the time.
We review website features from time to time and aim to keep third-party services limited to functions that have a clear purpose for the website.
8. Managing Your Cookie Choices
You can manage cookies in several ways. Your browser normally provides controls that allow you to view, remove or restrict cookies.
9. What Happens If You Disable Cookies?
Disabling all cookies may affect the way some websites operate. On SAFSAL STATIONERY, certain shopping, basket, checkout or preference functions may not work as expected if essential cookies are blocked.
Optional cookies can generally be restricted without preventing ordinary browsing, although some additional website functions may behave differently.
If a website feature does not work after changing your browser settings, restoring the necessary website permissions may resolve the issue.
10. Clearing Cookies
You can clear cookies already stored on your device at any time through your browser.
Clearing cookies does not normally prevent you from visiting the website again. However, certain preferences may need to be set again during your next visit.
If you have an active shopping session, clearing relevant cookies may also affect information temporarily held in that session.
11. Browser Controls
Most current browsers allow you to control cookie behaviour through their privacy or settings menus.
The exact steps vary between browsers and may change when a browser is updated. We recommend checking the help section of the browser you use for the latest instructions.
- Cookies can usually be viewed through browser settings.
- Previously stored cookies can normally be deleted.
- Future cookies can often be restricted or blocked.
- Some browsers allow separate settings for different websites.
12. Cookies and Personal Information
A cookie is not automatically the same thing as personal information. Whether information connected with a cookie can be linked to an individual depends on how the website and relevant service have been configured.
Where information collected through cookies is handled as personal information, it will be dealt with in accordance with the applicable privacy arrangements of the website.
We aim to collect and use only information that has a clear connection with the relevant website function.
13. Children and Website Use
The website is intended to provide ordinary stationery products and related online shopping services. We do not use cookies for the purpose of creating a separate profile of a child.
Where website technologies are subject to consent requirements, the applicable consent rules will be followed.
14. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when the website, its functions or the cookies in use change.
Any revised version will be published on this page and will become effective from the time it is published, unless a different effective arrangement is specifically stated.
We recommend checking this page occasionally if you want to keep up to date with how cookies are used on the website.
15. Our Responsibility
We take reasonable steps to keep the website and its cookie settings appropriate for the functions being provided.
Website technology can change over time, including when a plugin, browser, hosting service or website feature is updated. For this reason, the exact technical cookies present on a particular visit may vary.
We do not guarantee that every browser will handle cookies in exactly the same way. Browser settings, device settings and software updates are outside our direct control.
16. Disclaimer
This Cookie Policy is intended to explain our normal website practices in a straightforward way. It is not a promise that every page will use exactly the same cookies at every moment.
The availability and operation of particular website features may change as the website is maintained or improved.
Nothing in this policy is intended to remove, restrict or replace any right or protection that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.
Where applicable rules require a particular form of notice, choice or consent, the relevant requirement will take priority over this general explanation.
17. Contact Us
If you have a question about cookies used on the SAFSAL STATIONERY website, you can contact us directly.
Email: help@safsalstationery.shop
Telephone: +44 1332 648913
Company address: 37 Middleton Street, Derby, England, DE23 8QJ
We normally aim to acknowledge website-related enquiries within 2 business days.
18. Policy Timing
This Cookie Policy is effective immediately when published on the website.
Cookie settings and website technologies may be reviewed from time to time. Where a material change is made to how optional cookies are used, the relevant website notice or preference mechanism will be updated as appropriate.