Cookie
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Understanding cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

They can allow websites to recognise your device, remember information about your visit and provide functions such as shopping baskets, secure checkout, preferences and analytics.

Similar technologies including pixels, tags and local storage may perform comparable functions. References to cookies in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.

Our website

How IronStep uses cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the IronStep website, provide shopping and checkout functionality, remember preferences and understand how visitors use our website.

Where you have provided the required consent, cookies and similar technologies may also support analytics, personalisation and advertising.

Cookies may be set directly through the IronStep website or by third-party services used to operate and support the store.

Required functionality

Strictly necessary cookies

Certain cookies are necessary for the IronStep website to function correctly and securely.

Where permitted by law, these technologies may operate without consent because they are required to provide functionality you have requested or to operate the website securely.

Website performance

Analytics & performance

Analytics and performance technologies can help us understand how visitors use IronStep.

They may provide information about pages visited, website navigation, technical performance, errors and general interactions with the site.

Enhanced functionality

Functional cookies

Functional technologies can enable the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality or convenience.

Where applicable law requires consent, these technologies will only be used after the appropriate consent has been provided.

Advertising

Marketing technologies

Where enabled and where you have consented, IronStep and its service providers may use cookies, pixels or similar technologies to measure advertising effectiveness and understand interactions with advertising.

These technologies may also be used to help provide advertising that is more relevant to visitors.

Non-essential advertising technologies will not be used where consent is legally required unless that consent has been provided.

Ecommerce platform

Shopify

The IronStep online store is operated using the Shopify ecommerce platform.

Shopify uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with ecommerce functionality, security, checkout, fraud prevention, analytics and other platform services.

Shopify's privacy controls also support visitor choices relating to certain non-essential data collection technologies where applicable.

Service providers

Third-party services

IronStep may use third-party service providers to support payment processing, analytics, advertising, customer communications, fraud prevention, delivery and ecommerce functionality.

These providers may use cookies or similar technologies in connection with the services they provide.

Third parties may also process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

Your control

Managing your preferences

When you first visit IronStep you may be shown privacy or cookie controls allowing you to manage the use of non-essential technologies.

You can return to those controls at any time using the button below.

Cookie settings Manage cookie preferences →

You may also be able to control or delete cookies using your browser settings. Blocking certain technologies may affect some website functionality.

Data protection

Personal information

Information collected using cookies or similar technologies may in some circumstances constitute personal information.

More information about how IronStep handles personal information can be found in our Privacy Policy.

Policy updates

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes to our website, services, technologies, service providers, business operations or legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page and the updated date shown above will be amended where appropriate.