Cookie Policy
Last updated: 12 July 2025
Joan Allen Metal Detectors ("we", "our", or "us") uses cookies and similar technologies to help personalise your online experience. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and your choices regarding their use.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide information to website owners, and improve user experience.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, secure areas access, and shopping cart functionality.
- Session cookies: Maintain your shopping cart and login status
- Security cookies: Protect against CSRF attacks
- Load balancing cookies: Ensure website stability
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often. This data helps us improve website performance.
- Analytics cookies: Help us understand user behavior
- Error tracking: Identify and fix website issues
Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.
- Preference cookies: Remember your language and region settings
- Feature cookies: Remember changes to text size or fonts
- Login cookies: Keep you signed in during your visit
Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your browsing habits to deliver advertising relevant to you.
- Advertising cookies: Show relevant ads based on your interests
- Social media cookies: Enable sharing on social platforms
- Remarketing cookies: Show our ads on other websites
Third-Party Cookies
We use services from third parties that may set cookies on your device:
- Google Analytics: For website usage analysis
- Stripe: For secure payment processing
- Clerk: For user authentication
- Vercel: For website performance monitoring
Your Cookie Choices
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings:
- Accept or reject all cookies
- Accept only certain types of cookies
- Alert you when a cookie is being set
- Delete cookies when you close your browser
Specific Cookie Management
You can opt out of specific third-party cookies:
- Google Analytics: Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
- Advertising cookies: Visit www.youronlinechoices.com
Note: Disabling cookies may affect website functionality. Essential features like shopping cart and checkout require cookies to work properly.
Cookie Details
Here are the main cookies we use:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| __session | User authentication | Session |
| cart | Shopping cart items | 7 days |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| stripe_mid | Payment fraud prevention | 1 year |
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "last updated" date.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us:
- Email: sales@joanallen.co.uk
- Phone: 01959 571255
- Address: 9 Hall St, Long Melford, Sudbury CO10 9JF
More Information About Cookies
For more general information about cookies, visit:
- www.allaboutcookies.org
- www.ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/