We are committed to providing you with the best possible online shopping experience for outdoor sports equipment and gear. To achieve this, we use cookies and similar technologies on our website. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, why we use them, and how you can manage your preferences.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. These files do not contain personal information that can identify you directly, but they do allow us to recognise your browser and device.
For more information on cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How We Use Cookies
At bukwholesale.co.uk, we use cookies for several important reasons:
To Improve Your Shopping Experience: Cookies help us remember your preferences, such as your login details, items in your shopping cart, size preferences for outdoor apparel, gear categories you’re interested in (camping, hiking, skiing, etc.), and language settings. This means you don’t have to re-enter information every time you visit or browse from page to page.
To Understand How Our Website Is Used: We use analytical cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our website. This helps us understand which outdoor gear categories are popular, seasonal browsing patterns, how visitors navigate between different product types, and identify areas for improvement. This data is anonymised and aggregated.
To Provide Relevant Content and Advertising: Cookies help us to deliver content and advertisements that are more relevant to your outdoor interests and activities, both on our site and potentially on other websites you visit. This includes seasonal promotions for winter sports or summer camping gear based on your browsing behavior.
For Website Functionality: Some cookies are essential for the basic operation of our e-commerce website, ensuring that features like adding outdoor gear to your cart, size selection for apparel, and proceeding to checkout work smoothly.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use various types of cookies on bukwholesale.co.uk. These can generally be categorised as follows:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas, making purchases of outdoor equipment, managing your shopping cart with different gear items, and processing size selections for outdoor apparel. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find the outdoor gear they’re looking for easily, understanding which product categories are most popular during different seasons, and optimizing our site navigation for outdoor enthusiasts.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They allow us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences such as:
- Your choice of language or region
- Your preferred outdoor activity categories (camping, hiking, skiing, tactical, etc.)
- Size preferences for clothing and footwear
- Previous gear interests and browsing history
- Seasonal gear preferences
They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as product comparison tools, gear recommendation features, or accessing our outdoor guides and blog content.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your outdoor interests and activities. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, enabling us to:
- Show you relevant seasonal promotions (winter sports gear, summer camping equipment)
- Display advertisements for outdoor gear that matches your interests
- Provide targeted content about outdoor activities and equipment
- Offer personalized product recommendations based on your activity preferences
Third-Party Cookies
We may also allow certain third parties to place cookies on your device. These third parties include:
- Analytics providers who help us monitor website traffic and understand customer behavior patterns
- Advertising networks who may use cookies to track your browsing activity across different websites to serve you with more relevant ads for outdoor gear and activities
- Social media platforms that enable sharing of outdoor gear and content
- Product review services that help collect and display customer feedback on outdoor equipment
We do not control the use of these third-party cookies, and you should refer to the respective third party’s cookie policy for more information.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser’s settings to prevent it from accepting cookies if you prefer.
You can also delete cookies that are already on your computer. If you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a website, and some services and functionalities may not work. For example, your shopping cart may not remember items, size preferences may be lost, and personalized outdoor gear recommendations may not be available.
The “Help” menu in your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information on how to manage cookies, please visit:
Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly, including:
- Shopping cart functionality
- Personalized gear recommendations
- Size preference memory
- Login status maintenance
- Customized content based on outdoor activity interests
Cookie Consent Management
We provide tools to help you manage your cookie preferences. You can:
- Accept all cookies for the full website experience
- Accept only necessary cookies for basic functionality
- Customize your preferences by cookie category
- Withdraw your consent at any time by revisiting our cookie preference center
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, new outdoor gear categories, or legal requirements. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Modified” date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy or the way we use cookies, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Email: support@bukwholesale.co.uk
Operating Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM GMT
Via our contact form: Contact Us