Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 2 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how GAVHAD Studio (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit and use our website.

Our website uses WordPress and WooCommerce to provide our online shopping services. Cookies help us operate the website, provide shopping functionality, improve your experience, and, where permitted, understand how visitors use our website.

By using our website, you may encounter cookies placed by us, WooCommerce, WordPress, payment providers, analytics services, and other third-party services integrated into our website.

1. What Are Cookies?

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

They allow a website to remember information about your visit, such as items added to your shopping cart, login status, preferences, or browsing activity.

Some technologies similar to cookies, such as tracking pixels, local storage, scripts and tags, may also be used on our website. UK guidance treats these technologies similarly in relevant circumstances.

2. How We Use Cookies

We may use cookies for the following purposes:

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website and online store to function properly.

They may be used to:

Keep products in your shopping cart.
Maintain your WooCommerce shopping session.
Allow you to proceed through checkout.
Remember information necessary to process your order.
Maintain your login or account session.
Provide website security.
Remember certain website preferences.
Prevent errors and maintain website functionality.

Some WooCommerce cookies are specifically used to identify changes to cart contents, maintain customer sessions and support recently viewed products.

Because these cookies are necessary for services you have requested, they may fall within the “strictly necessary” exemption from consent requirements.

B. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

For example, they may remember:

Your preferences.
Previously selected options.
Certain shopping preferences.
Website settings.

Where required by applicable law, we will ask for your consent before placing these cookies.

C. Analytics Cookies

We may use analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website.

These cookies may help us understand:

Which pages receive the most visits.
How visitors navigate the website.
Which products or pages are viewed.
How visitors interact with our website.
Website performance and errors.

Analytics cookies will only be used where we have the appropriate legal basis and, where required, your consent.

D. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

If we use advertising, remarketing, social-media pixels or similar technologies, these may be used to:

Measure advertising campaigns.
Show relevant advertisements.
Understand interactions with advertisements.
Create audiences for advertising purposes.
Measure conversions.

These technologies are not considered strictly necessary simply because they are useful to our business. Where consent is required, we will obtain your consent before activating them. UK ICO guidance specifically states that non-exempt tracking and advertising technologies should not be activated before valid consent.

3. WooCommerce Cookies

Our online store uses WooCommerce.

Depending on how our store is configured, WooCommerce may use cookies including:

Cookie	Purpose	Typical Duration
`woocommerce_cart_hash`	Helps identify changes to your shopping cart	Session
`woocommerce_items_in_cart`	Helps determine whether your cart contains items	Session
`wp_woocommerce_session_*`	Identifies your WooCommerce customer session and associated cart information	Up to 2 days
`woocommerce_recently_viewed`	Supports recently viewed products	Session
`store_notice*`	Remembers whether a store notice has been dismissed	Session

WooCommerce’s documentation confirms these cookies are used for shopping-cart, customer-session and recently-viewed-product functionality.

The exact cookies used on our website may change depending on WooCommerce settings, themes, plugins, payment providers and other services installed on the website.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be placed by third-party services that we use.

These may include services such as:

Payment providers.
Website analytics providers.
Advertising platforms.
Social-media services.
Security services.
Embedded content providers.
Shipping or delivery services.

Third-party services may process information collected through cookies according to their own privacy policies.

Where third-party cookies are not strictly necessary, we will seek consent where required before they are activated. UK guidance recommends identifying relevant third parties and explaining what information they receive and how long the technology operates.

5. Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to manage your cookie preferences.

Where required, you can:

Accept optional cookies.
Reject optional cookies.
Manage individual cookie categories.
Change your preferences later.

We will not treat simply continuing to browse the website as valid consent for non-essential cookies. Valid consent requires a clear positive action.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change or withdraw your consent to optional cookies at any time through our cookie preference controls.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

Delete existing cookies.
Block cookies.
Allow cookies.
Block third-party cookies.
Delete cookies when closing your browser.

Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of our WooCommerce store from functioning correctly, including shopping-cart and checkout functionality.

7. How Long Cookies Remain

Cookies can be either:

Session cookies – These are deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies – These remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the service responsible for placing them.

8. Personal Information

Some cookies and similar technologies may process information that can be associated with an individual.

Where this occurs, our use of that information is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

Where cookies involve personal data, applicable data protection requirements may apply alongside the rules governing cookies and similar technologies. (ICO)