Cookie Policy for The Aura Gallery

Effective Date: March 15, 2024

Welcome to The Aura Gallery! This Cookie Policy explains how The Aura Gallery ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at www.theauragallery.co.uk ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Since our Website is hosted on Wix, it uses a range of first-party and third-party cookies. Wix uses cookies for important reasons, such as:

To provide a great experience for visitors and customers.
To identify registered members (users who registered to your site).
To monitor and analyze the performance, operation, and effectiveness of Wix's platform.
To ensure the platform is secure and safe to use.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Others help us to provide you with a better browsing experience, interact with social media, and analyze and improve the performance and traffic of our website.

Types of cookies used on our Website

Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize 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 are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Social media cookies: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes too.

Controlling and blocking cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Changes to our Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes to our cookie practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our cookie use.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at lydiadenton@theauragallery.co.uk.