Cookie Policy

Last updated: 8 August 2026

This policy explains how Cooked & Ate Ltd ("we", "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website (cookedandate.com).

Please read it alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly, remember your preferences, improve performance, and provide information about how visitors use the site.

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser (known as 'session' cookies), while others remain on your device until they expire or you delete them ('persistent' cookies).

We also use similar technologies that do not rely on cookies. Where we describe cookies in this policy, we mean those technologies too.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Keep our website functioning correctly
  • Remember your preferences and basket
  • Improve the performance and security of our website
  • Understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it
  • Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns
  • Allow Shopify, which hosts our store, to personalise your experience and improve advertising targeting

Your choices

When you first visit our website, a banner asks whether you accept non-essential cookies. You can accept them, decline them, or choose which categories to allow.

Only strictly necessary cookies are set before you make a choice. Analytics, functional and marketing cookies are set only if you accept them, and your choice is applied automatically across the services we use.

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the cookie banner. Withdrawing consent will not affect anything that happened before you did so.

Most browsers also allow you to view the cookies stored on your device, delete existing cookies and block future ones. Please note that this is separate from the choice you make on our banner, and that blocking certain cookies may affect how parts of our website work.

Types of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for our website to operate correctly. They enable features such as:

  • basket functionality
  • secure checkout
  • customer account login
  • fraud prevention
  • website security and load balancing

These cookies cannot be switched off, and they do not require your consent. They typically last from the length of your visit up to 12 months.

Analytics cookies

These help us understand how visitors interact with our website. They allow us to see information such as:

  • pages visited
  • time spent on the website
  • products viewed
  • general website performance

We use this to improve our website and the customer experience. These cookies are set only if you accept them, and typically last up to 24 months.

Functional cookies

These remember the choices you make, such as your preferred language or other settings, so that we can provide a more personalised experience. They are set only if you accept them, and typically last up to 12 months.

Marketing cookies

With your permission, marketing cookies may be used to:

  • measure advertising performance
  • show you more relevant adverts
  • understand how visitors found our website
  • help us improve future marketing campaigns

These cookies may be placed by trusted third-party advertising partners. They are set only if you accept them, and typically last 90 days, and in some cases up to 13 months.

Third-party cookies

Some cookies may be placed by third-party services that help us to operate our business and advertise our products. These include:

  • Shopify: hosts our online store, provides our website analytics, and personalises your experience
  • Google: measures the performance of our adverts and helps us reach relevant audiences
  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram): measures the performance of our adverts and helps us reach relevant audiences
  • Our payment providers: process payments securely and help prevent fraud

These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies governing how they use your information.

How Shopify uses this information

Shopify hosts our online store. As well as providing the store to us, Shopify uses information about your activity here, combined with activity across other Shopify merchants, to improve personalisation and advertising targeting for our store. No other merchant can access your information.

If you decline non-essential cookies, your activity is marked so that Shopify does not use it for advertising purposes. Further detail, including how to contact Shopify directly, is in the "Our website platform" section of our Privacy Policy.

Advertising measurement without cookies

Some information about purchases is sent directly from Shopify's systems to Google and Meta, rather than through your browser. This does not involve cookies on your device, but it does involve your information, and we only do it where you have accepted marketing cookies. Full details are in the "Advertising and analytics" section of our Privacy Policy.

Changes to this cookie policy

We may update this cookie policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legal requirements, or the services we use. The latest version will always be available on our website with the updated date shown at the top.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this cookie policy, please contact us through our contact page.