Cookie Policy

Last updated: [Insert date]

This Cookie Policy explains how Sunmaj (“Sunmaj”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit Sunmaj.co.uk.

It explains what these technologies are, why we may use them and the choices available to you.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides more information about how we handle personal information.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit them.

Cookies can perform different functions. For example, they may help a website operate correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the website or support analytics and advertising.

Some cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are removed when you close your browser. These are often called session cookies.

Others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them. These are commonly known as persistent cookies.

2. What are similar technologies?

Websites may also use technologies other than traditional cookies to store information on, or access information from, a user’s device.

These can include technologies such as:

  • Local storage
  • Tracking pixels
  • Scripts and tags
  • Link decoration and navigational tracking
  • Device identifiers or fingerprinting technologies

This Cookie Policy uses the term “cookies” broadly where appropriate to include cookies and similar storage or access technologies.

Current UK regulatory guidance covers a range of these technologies, not just traditional browser cookies. (ICO)

3. How Sunmaj may use cookies

Depending on the services and features active on Sunmaj, we may use cookies for purposes including:

  • Keeping the website secure and functioning correctly
  • Remembering visitor preferences
  • Remembering cookie consent choices
  • Understanding how visitors use Sunmaj
  • Measuring website and content performance
  • Identifying how visitors arrive at our website
  • Supporting affiliate referral tracking
  • Supporting advertising, if advertising is introduced in the future
  • Enabling functionality provided by third-party services

The specific cookies used may change as we develop Sunmaj or add, remove or change third-party services.

4. Strictly necessary cookies

Some technologies may be necessary for Sunmaj to operate correctly or provide functionality requested by the visitor.

For example, they may be used for:

  • Website security
  • Essential technical functionality
  • Remembering certain privacy or consent choices
  • Maintaining website sessions where required

Where a technology falls within an applicable legal exception, consent may not be required. The current UK regulatory framework includes purpose-specific exceptions for certain storage and access technologies. (ICO)

Where required, we will still provide appropriate information about these technologies.

5. Analytics cookies

Sunmaj may use analytics technologies to help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

Depending on the analytics tools we use, these may help us understand:

  • Which pages and articles are visited
  • How visitors arrive at Sunmaj
  • How visitors navigate the website
  • How long visitors spend on certain pages
  • Which content is most useful or popular
  • General website performance

We use this information to understand our audience and improve Sunmaj’s content and user experience.

The consent requirements applying to analytics technologies depend on how they are configured and whether an applicable legal exception is available. Where consent is legally required, we aim not to activate the relevant technologies until the appropriate choice has been made.

6. Affiliate tracking

Sunmaj may participate in affiliate programmes as part of the way we fund the website.

Some links on Sunmaj may contain affiliate tracking information.

When you click an affiliate link, the relevant merchant or affiliate network may use cookies or other tracking technologies to record that you arrived at its website through Sunmaj.

If you later make a qualifying booking or purchase, this information may allow the merchant or affiliate network to attribute the transaction to Sunmaj and pay us a commission.

In most cases, this does not increase the price you pay.

Affiliate networks and merchants may operate their own cookies and tracking technologies according to their own privacy and cookie policies.

Where affiliate tracking technologies used on Sunmaj require consent, we aim to obtain the necessary consent before they are activated.

For more information about how affiliate relationships work, please see our Affiliate Disclosure.

7. Advertising cookies

Sunmaj may introduce advertising to the website in the future.

If we use advertising technologies, they may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver, measure or personalise advertising.

We will update this Cookie Policy and our consent arrangements as appropriate if our use of advertising technologies changes.

Under current UK rules, many forms of online advertising involving storage or access technologies—particularly personalised advertising involving tracking—continue to require appropriate consent. (ICO)

8. Third-party cookies and technologies

Some services used or linked to by Sunmaj may be provided by third parties.

Depending on the features we implement, these could include:

  • Analytics providers
  • Affiliate networks
  • Advertising providers
  • Embedded video or media providers
  • Social media platforms
  • Website functionality providers
  • Other external services

These third parties may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

Where third-party technologies operate directly through Sunmaj, we aim to provide appropriate information and controls as required.

When you leave Sunmaj and visit an external website, that website’s own privacy and cookie policies will apply.

9. Your cookie choices

When you visit Sunmaj, you may be presented with a cookie consent or preference tool.

Depending on the technologies in use, this may allow you to:

  • Accept relevant non-essential cookies
  • Reject relevant non-essential cookies
  • Choose between different categories or purposes
  • Change or withdraw your preferences later

Where consent is required, the ICO’s current guidance says that consent mechanisms should make refusing consent as easy as accepting it, require a positive opt-in before non-exempt technologies are used, and provide granular choices where appropriate. Users must also be able to withdraw consent as easily as they gave it. (ICO)

Your choices should be respected by the technologies controlled through our consent system.

10. Managing cookies through your browser

Most web browsers also allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their settings.

The exact process depends on the browser and device you use.

Blocking certain cookies may affect how some website features function.

Browser settings alone should not be assumed to represent valid consent in every situation, so Sunmaj will use its own consent mechanism where required. (ICO)

11. How long cookies remain on your device

Different cookies may remain on your device for different periods.

Some are deleted when you close your browser, while others may remain for a specified period.

Where appropriate, information about the duration of specific cookies should be available through our cookie preference tool or the detailed cookie information we provide.

We aim to review the technologies used on Sunmaj periodically and update our information where necessary.

12. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

This may happen if we:

  • Add or remove website services
  • Introduce new analytics tools
  • Join new affiliate programmes
  • Introduce advertising
  • Change our cookie consent technology
  • Change how existing technologies are used
  • Need to reflect changes in applicable law or regulatory guidance

If we introduce technologies for a new purpose that requires fresh consent, we will aim to request that consent appropriately. (ICO)

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was most recently revised.

13. Contact us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how Sunmaj uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us:

Sunmaj
Website: Sunmaj.co.uk
Email: [Insert contact email address]

You can also contact us through our Contact page.

Before publishing this page: We should do one final update once you tell me which cookie consent plugin and analytics system you are using on Sunmaj. Then we can replace the generic sections with the actual cookie categories and third-party services running on the site. That’s the version I recommend publishing, because UK guidance requires clear information about the technologies and relevant third parties rather than relying solely on a generic cookie policy. (ICO)