Cookie Policy

Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how BAY CATERING EQUIPMENT SOLUTIONS LTD uses cookies and similar technologies on bayequipmentequip.com.

Registered office: 12 Pencarrow Road, Paignton, Devon, United Kingdom, TQ3 3FS. Company number 12803862. Contact info@bayequipmentequip.com.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They can help the site function, remember choices, or measure performance.

Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, and session tokens that can perform comparable functions.

How we use cookies

Strictly necessary cookies may be required for security, load balancing, or cart and checkout flows depending on site configuration.

Functional cookies remember preferences such as language selection where available.

Analytics cookies help us understand aggregate traffic patterns and improve usability.

Marketing cookies may be used only where enabled by your preferences and applicable law.

Third-party cookies

Some cookies may be set by providers such as payment providers, analytics suites, or embedded content. Those providers have their own policies.

We seek to minimise third-party tracking to what is needed for the service you request.

Managing cookies

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, some features may not work.

Where consent banners are used, your choice is stored according to browser storage rules until you clear it.

Retention

Session cookies expire when you close the browser where configured that way. Persistent cookies expire according to their maximum age or when you delete them.

Updates

We may update this policy as our site or legal requirements change. Material changes will be reflected on this page.

Categories of cookies in principle

Strictly necessary cookies enable core functions such as security, network management, and (where applicable) shopping basket persistence.

Performance cookies collect aggregated data on how visitors use the site. Functional cookies remember choices you make.

Targeting or advertising cookies — only if we implement them — would be used to build profiles for relevant advertising subject to consent.

• Necessary
• Performance / analytics
• Functional
• Targeting (only with consent)

Your consent and withdrawal

Where consent is the legal basis for non-essential cookies, you may withdraw at any time without affecting prior lawful processing.

Browser controls and industry opt-out tools may supplement our banner where available.

Do Not Track and global privacy signals

Not all browsers transmit standardised Do Not Track signals. Where we detect actionable global privacy preference signals and they are technically practical to honour, we aim to align cookie behaviour accordingly.

We review vendor release notes when browsers ship new privacy features affecting storage partitioning, third-party cookie deprecation timelines, and state recovery after user-initiated data clears.

Where a signal is ambiguous or incomplete, we default to the more privacy-preserving practical interpretation until industry guidance converges.

Essential cookies: operational detail

Strictly necessary cookies may enforce CSRF protections on forms, tie a session to a load-balanced node without exposing personal identity, or persist a minimal cart token where the payment provider requires continuity across secured steps.

These cookies typically have short lifetimes, limited scope to our hostname, and are not reused for advertising cohorts.

Disabling them may prevent checkout completion or cause repeated security challenges on sensitive actions.

Analytics measurement and proportionality

Where analytics are deployed, we favour aggregated reporting over granular behavioural dossiers and configure data export in line with vendor documentation and UK expectations on transparency.

Retention windows are chosen to answer genuine product questions without indefinitely preserving interaction histories.

You may still see anonymised rollups after individual-level deletion where statistics cannot be reconstructed to identify you.

First-party versus third-party context

Many modern browsers restrict third-party cookies. Where our tools run in a first-party context, storage may still be constrained by intelligent tracking prevention rules or equivalent technologies.

Embedded payment or cart services may set cookies on their own domains under their policies; we rely on contractual terms requiring lawful processing and security measures.

Cookie audit and records

We maintain an internal inventory of cookies and similar technologies proportionate to site complexity, updated when major features ship.

Each entry records purpose, provider, typical lifetime, lawful basis where required, and verification steps after deployments.

Children and school equipment contexts

If devices are shared with minors, guardians should supervise browser controls. We do not knowingly run behavioural advertising to children through this storefront.