1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how HarmENT ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies on harment.co.uk, the types of cookies we use, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Essential cookies: Required for the website to function properly
- Performance cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
- Functionality cookies: Remember your preferences and settings
- Marketing and advertising cookies: Track your activity to deliver relevant advertising and measure campaign performance
Some of these cookies are set by us (first-party cookies), while others are set by third parties such as Google, Meta, and embedded media providers (third-party cookies).
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services like shopping baskets and secure login cannot be provided.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
| session_id |
Maintains user session state |
Session |
| csrf_token |
Security - prevents cross-site request forgery |
Session |
| cookie_consent |
Stores your cookie preferences |
1 year |
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, helping us improve it.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
| _ga |
Google Analytics - distinguishes users |
2 years |
| _ga_* |
Google Analytics - maintains session state |
2 years |
| _gid |
Google Analytics - distinguishes users |
24 hours |
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver relevant advertisements and track ad campaign performance across our website and other sites.
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Duration |
| _fbp |
Facebook / Meta - tracks visits across websites for advertising |
3 months |
| _gcl_au |
Google Ads / AdSense - conversion tracking and ad performance |
3 months |
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
4. Google Advertising Cookies and Partners
We use Google services such as Google AdSense and Google Ads, which may use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies to deliver, personalise, and measure advertising.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' uses of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Google may also use data collected from cookies in accordance with its own policies. For more information on how Google uses data, please see Google’s Advertising Policies and Google’s list of advertising partners.
5. Consent Management, Consent Mode and CMP
We use a Consent Management Platform (CMP), provided by Google’s Funding Choices, to collect and manage your consent for cookies and similar technologies. This CMP controls how cookies are set and how certain Google services operate based on your choices.
We implement Google Consent Mode, which adjusts how Google tags behave based on your consent choices for the following categories:
- ad_storage – controls storage of advertising cookies
- analytics_storage – controls storage of analytics cookies
- ad_user_data – controls whether user data is sent for advertising purposes
- ad_personalization – controls whether ads are personalised
Your consent preferences are collected via our cookie banner and can be updated at any time using the cookie settings link or banner (where available).
6. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services. These third parties may include:
- Google Analytics: For website analytics and performance monitoring
- Google Ads / AdSense: For advertising, conversion tracking, and ad performance
- Facebook/Meta: For social media integration and advertising
- YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud and other media platforms: For embedded audio and video content
- Stripe: For secure payment processing
These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies, and they may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activity across websites. We encourage you to review their respective policies to understand how they process your data.
7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can control and manage cookies in several ways:
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically find these options in your browser's "Options", "Settings", or "Preferences" menu. Here are links to cookie management for popular browsers:
Opt-Out Tools
You can opt out of specific third-party cookies:
8. Consequences of Disabling Cookies
Please note that if you choose to disable or block certain cookies, some features of our website may not function properly. This could affect:
- Your ability to log in or access certain areas
- Personalised features and saved preferences
- Shopping cart functionality
- The overall user experience
9. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.
