Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies. Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to help improve your experience when using our website.
This page explains what information cookies gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We also explain how you can prevent cookies from being stored, although this may downgrade or prevent certain elements of the site from functioning correctly.
For more general information about cookies, please see the Wikipedia article on HTTP cookies.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, as detailed below.
In most cases, there are no standard options for disabling cookies without also disabling some of the functionality and features they provide to this site.
It is recommended that you leave cookies enabled if you are unsure whether you need them, as they may be used to provide a service or feature that you use.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent cookies from being set by adjusting the settings in your browser. Please see your browser’s help section for instructions on how to do this.
Please be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this website and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually also prevent certain features and services on this site from working correctly.
For this reason, we recommend that you do not disable cookies unless you are sure you do not need them.
The cookies we set
If you create a Jean Haines Watercolour Inspiration account, we may use cookies to manage the sign-up process and general account administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, although in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this. This prevents you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out, helping to ensure that restricted features and areas are only accessible while you are logged in.
This site offers newsletter and email subscription services. Cookies may be used to remember whether you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications that may only be relevant to subscribed or unsubscribed users.
This site offers e-commerce, membership and payment facilities. Some cookies are essential to ensure that your order or membership selection is remembered between pages so that we can process it correctly.
When you submit information through a form, such as a contact form or comment form, cookies may be set to remember your details for future correspondence.
Third-party cookies
In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section explains some of the third-party cookies you may encounter when using this site.
This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widely used analytics services on the web. Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use the site and how we can improve their experience.
These cookies may collect information such as how long you spend on the site and which pages you visit, so that we can continue to improve our website and provide useful and engaging content.
For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see the official Google Analytics information about cookie usage.
As we provide paid memberships and may sell other products or services, it is important for us to understand how many visitors make a purchase. These cookies may help us measure the effectiveness of our website, advertising and promotional activity.
For full details of how we collect, use and protect personal information, please review our Privacy Policy.
More information
We hope this has clarified how and why we use cookies. As mentioned above, if you are unsure whether you need cookies enabled, it is usually best to leave them enabled in case they are required for features you use on the site.
If you would like more information, please contact the Jean Haines Watercolour Inspiration support team through our contact page or email support@watercolourinspiration.com.