Cookie Policy

3rd Floor Wines website and online services use “cookies”. Cookies enable you to use shopping baskets and to personalise your experience on our site, they tell us which parts of our website people have visited, help us measure the effectiveness of ads and web searches, and give us insights into user behaviour so we can improve our communications and products for our customers.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website.  Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

This page describes what information they gather, how we use that information and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.  The cookies used on the 3rd Floor Wines website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. 

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or online invoicing, cannot be provided.

So if you are a Third Floor Wines customer and log on using your username and password this website uses the cookies necessary to authenticate you and to enable you to access information specific to your account and place orders online.

Performance cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website – for instance, which pages you visit and how long you spend on site. This data may be used to help optimise our website, make it easier for you to navigate and help Boutinot continue to produce engaging and relevant content. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Boutinot use Google Analytics cookies to track visits to the site and to individual web pages.  This information, which is all anonymised, is stored by Google and enables us, using Google Analytics, to check the relative popularity of different areas of our website.  Google Analytics is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the internet for helping website owners better understand how you use our website and discover ways that we can improve your experience.

To read Google’s Privacy Policy visit www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make while browsing.  For instance, we may store your geographic location in a cookie to ensure that we show you our website localised for your area. We may also remember preferences such as text size, fonts, and other customisable site elements. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.  The information these cookies collect will not personally identify you, and they cannot track your browsing activity on non-Third Floor Wines websites.

Disabling cookies

You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser.  However because cookies are used throughout our website, disabling them may prevent you from using certain parts of the Boutinot site.

For further information on cookies and how to switch them off visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.