Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how World Global Kitchen (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on this website (the “Site”). It is written in plain English and should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

1.What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your device when you visit it. Cookies allow a website to remember things about your visit — for example, your preferences, or whether you have visited before. Cookies are widely used across the internet because they make websites work more smoothly and help website owners understand how their sites are used.

2.Similar technologies

As well as cookies, websites may use other technologies that work in a similar way. For example:

• Local storage, which lets a website store information directly on your device through your browser.
• Session storage, which is similar to local storage but is cleared when you close your browser.
• Web beacons or pixels, which are tiny images embedded in pages or emails that can be used to tell whether a page has been viewed.

In this Cookie Policy, “cookies and similar technologies” covers all of these unless we say otherwise.

3.Why we may use cookies and similar technologies

We may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Make the Site work — for example, remembering your language preference.
• Understand how the Site is used — for example, through analytics.
• Improve and maintain the Site over time.
• Help keep the Site secure.

We group the technologies we use into three categories: strictly necessary, analytics, and advertising. These are explained below. Where a technology needs your consent, we ask for it through our consent mechanism, which is described in the “Your consent choices” section below.

4.Strictly necessary technologies

Some technologies are required for the Site to function properly. They do not require your consent because the Site would not work without them.

Language preference

The Site stores your chosen language in your browser’s local storage under the key global-kitchen-language. This lets the Site remember your language the next time you visit. This information stays on your device and is not sent to us or to any third party.

5.Analytics technologies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it. Google Analytics is provided by Google LLC and uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you spend on the Site, and technical information about your browser and device.

Our Site uses Google Analytics with the measurement ID G-YMXWC3LST2. The information collected is generally processed in an aggregated, anonymous form. You can find out more about how Google Analytics works and how to opt out at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Because Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies that are not strictly necessary, we ask for your consent before enabling it. Your choice is collected through our consent mechanism, which is described in the “Your consent choices” section below. If you do not give consent for analytics, Google Analytics will not store or read analytics cookies on your device for this Site.

6.Future advertising technologies

Google AdSense and similar advertising technologies are not currently used on this Site, and no advertising cookies are set. This section is included so that, if advertising is introduced in the future, this Cookie Policy already explains how it works.

If we introduce Google advertising, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on your prior visits to this website and other websites. These vendors may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

If we introduce Google advertising, we will update this section to confirm that it is active and to explain how you can manage or opt out of the advertising cookies it uses.

7.Your consent choices

The Site uses a consent mechanism so that you can choose whether non-essential storage — in particular analytics storage — is used. When you visit the Site for the first time, a consent banner is shown. The banner lets you choose between:

• Accept — you allow the Site to use analytics storage (Google Analytics) as described in this policy.
• Reject — the Site will not store or read analytics cookies on your device, and Google Analytics will not collect analytics data from your visit.
• Manage — you can review and adjust individual choices before deciding, so you can, for example, accept or reject analytics separately from any future advertising category.

Your choice is remembered by the Site so that you are not asked again on every visit. Strictly necessary storage (such as your language preference) is used regardless of your choice, because the Site would not work properly without it.

Changing or withdrawing your consent

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time after your initial choice. The Site provides a consent preferences button that reopens the consent choices so you can update them. Withdrawing consent stops the relevant non-essential storage from being used going forward; it does not delete cookies that have already been set, which you can remove through your browser settings as described in the “Managing cookies” section below.

Advertising storage is not currently used by the Site, so the advertising choice in the consent mechanism has no effect today. It is included so that, if advertising is introduced in the future, your existing choice will already apply.

8.Third-party cookies

Some cookies used on the Site may be set by third parties rather than by us. For example, Google Analytics cookies are set by Google and are governed by Google’s own privacy and cookie policies. We do not control how third parties use their cookies, but we describe the third-party services we use in our Privacy Policy.

9.Managing cookies

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers let you:

• View the cookies that have been set on your device.
• Block all cookies, or only third-party cookies.
• Delete cookies that have already been set.
• Set your browser to ask you before a cookie is stored.

The way to do this varies from browser to browser. You can usually find instructions in your browser’s help or settings menu. Useful starting points include:

• Chrome: support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
• Firefox: support.mozilla.org/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
• Safari: support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Edge: support.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b5-75153c5825fc

Blocking all cookies may affect how the Site works. For example, the Site may not be able to remember your language preference.

10.Withdrawing consent

Where consent is required for a technology to be used, you can withdraw that consent at any time. The simplest way to do this on the Site is to use the consent preferences button described in the “Your consent choices” section above: it reopens your consent choices so you can change any category to “Reject”. You can also delete the relevant cookies through your browser settings, as described above. If you want to opt out of a specific service — for example, Google Analytics — you can do so using the information provided at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Withdrawing consent through the consent preferences button takes effect for future visits. To remove cookies that have already been stored on your device, use your browser settings as described in the “Managing cookies” section above.

11.Summary of technologies we use

The table below summarises the categories of technologies described in this policy.

12.Note on regulatory guidance

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) currently expects websites to give clear information about the storage and access technologies they use and, where consent is required for non-exempt technologies, to obtain that consent before the technologies are used. This Cookie Policy is written to meet that expectation by clearly describing each technology, distinguishing between necessary, analytics and advertising categories, explaining the consent mechanism the Site uses to obtain and record your choices, and explaining how you can manage or withdraw consent.

13.Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time — for example, if we introduce new technologies or if our use of existing technologies changes. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

14.Contacting us about cookies

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, we want to hear from you. A dedicated contact form is being prepared for this Site and will be available soon. In the meantime, please check back here for an official contact method. We have not published a contact email address on this Site yet because we do not want to direct messages to an address that is not yet monitored.