This Cookie Policy explains how Design Chess uses cookies and similar technologies on www.designchess.com. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores in your browser or on your device. Cookies allow a website to recognise a browser, remember information or provide a particular function.
We may also use similar technologies, such as local storage or pixels. In this policy, “cookies” includes these technologies where relevant.
Cookies may be placed by Design Chess or by a third-party service used on our website. Some last only for the browser session, while others remain for a defined period or until you delete them.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies to:
- provide essential shop functions, including the shopping cart, checkout, account access and cookie-preference controls;
- protect the website, prevent fraud and diagnose technical problems;
- remember choices such as country, currency, language or other display preferences;
- understand how the website is used and improve its structure, content and performance; and
- measure or support advertising and marketing where those services are enabled.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent because they are needed to provide a service you request or to keep the website secure. Where consent is required, we use functional, analytics, performance, advertising or other non-essential cookies only according to your choices.
3. Cookie categories and current details
The categories shown in our cookie preference tool may include:
- Necessary: cookies required for core website, security, shopping and consent-management functions;
- Functional: cookies that provide optional features or remember additional preferences;
- Analytics and performance: cookies that help us understand visits, use and technical performance; and
- Advertisement: cookies used to measure or personalise advertising and related campaigns.
The services used on the website may change. Our cookie preference tool provides the current categories and available details about individual cookies, including their purposes, providers and storage periods.
4. Third-party technologies
Some website functions are supplied by third parties, such as payment, security, analytics, advertising, review or embedded-content providers. These providers may place or read cookies when their service is used and your choices permit it.
Where a third party determines how it uses information for its own purposes, its privacy and cookie notices also apply. Current providers and cookie details are shown in the cookie preference tool where available.
5. Your cookie choices
When the cookie banner is shown, you can accept, reject or customise non-essential cookies. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be switched off through the preference tool.
You can review or change your choices at any time by selecting Cookie Settings. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before the withdrawal.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may prevent the shopping cart, checkout, account, pricing, tax display or other parts of the website from working correctly. Deleting cookies may cause the cookie banner to appear again.
6. How long cookies remain
Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for the period assigned to them, unless you delete them earlier. The current storage period for each identified cookie is shown in the cookie preference tool where available.
