Cookie Policy
Last updated: 9 November 2026
This policy explains how Blunt Box (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on bluntboxuk.co.uk. It should be read with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information more generally.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site work, remember your choices and, where you allow it, provide information about how the site is used. Similar technologies, such as local storage and tracking pixels, work in the same way and are covered by this policy.
2. The types of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These are essential for the shop to work and cannot be switched off. They keep your basket, let you log in to your account and check out, keep the site secure and remember your cookie choices. They do not need your consent. The main ones are:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| wp_woocommerce_session_* | Keeps track of your basket and checkout details while you shop | About 2 days |
| woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart | Detect changes to your basket so the correct contents and totals are shown | Session |
| wordpress_logged_in_*, wordpress_sec_* | Keep you logged in to your account and keep your login secure | Session, or up to 14 days if you choose “Remember me” |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Checks that your browser accepts cookies before you log in | Session |
| Our cookie consent cookie | Remembers the cookie choices you make | Up to 12 months |
Exact names and lifetimes can vary slightly with the version of WordPress and WooCommerce in use.
Functional cookies
These remember choices you make and help features work properly, such as your wishlist, recently viewed products, and settings in your account. Where they are not strictly necessary, we only use them with your consent.
Analytics cookies
If we use analytics, these cookies tell us how visitors use the website, such as which products and pages are most popular, so that we can improve it. We only set them with your consent.
Marketing and third-party cookies
These may be set by services we use for advertising or embedded content, or by other sites if you follow links to them. They may track you across websites. We only set them with your consent.
3. Third-party services on this website
- Payment providers: when you pay, our payment providers may use cookies and similar technologies to process your payment securely and to help prevent fraud. These are needed to complete your order.
- Newsletter: if you sign up to our newsletter, our email provider may use cookies or similar technologies to manage your subscription and, where you consent, to measure whether emails are opened.
- Google Fonts: our site uses fonts that may be loaded from Google, which can receive your IP address.
- Social media and sharing links: our blog posts include links to share on Facebook, X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn and Telegram, and our footer links to our social media pages. These take you to those sites, which have their own cookie policies. We do not control the cookies they set.
4. Your choices
When you first visit, you can accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent does not affect cookies already used before you withdrew it.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings, including deleting cookies already stored and blocking new ones. Blocking all cookies, including the essential ones above, will stop parts of the shop, such as the basket, checkout and login, from working. Guidance for common browsers is available at aboutcookies.org.
5. How long cookies last
Some cookies are “session” cookies and are deleted when you close your browser. Others are “persistent” and stay on your device for a set period or until you delete them. Your cookie preference is normally remembered for up to 12 months, after which we will ask you again.
6. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy if the cookies or services on our website change. The latest version is always on this page, with the date it was last updated shown at the top.
7. Contact us
Questions about this policy? Please get in touch through our Contact page.