Cookie Policy

Last updated: 16 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Shear Strength Barbers uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website:

shearstrengthbarbers.co.uk

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

They can help a website:

• Work correctly

• Remember your preferences

• Understand how visitors use the website

• Improve performance

• Measure website traffic

• Support advertising and marketing activity

• Provide embedded services such as maps, videos or social media features

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others may remain on your device for a set period of time.

2. How We Use Cookies

Shear Strength Barbers may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Ensure our website works properly

• Keep the website secure

• Remember visitor preferences

• Understand how people use our website

• Measure website traffic and performance

• Identify which pages are most useful to visitors

• Understand how visitors arrived at our website

• Improve our website and services

• Measure the effectiveness of advertising or marketing campaigns

• Support third-party features and integrations

Where required by law, non-essential cookies will not be placed on your device until you have given your consent.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function correctly.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• Website security

• Page navigation

• Remembering cookie choices

• Maintaining website functionality

• Protecting forms from misuse

These cookies do not normally require your consent because they are necessary for the website to operate.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They may collect information such as:

• Number of visitors

• Pages visited

• How long visitors spend on a page

• General location information

• Device type

• Browser type

• How visitors found our website

We may use services such as Google Analytics or similar website analytics tools.

These cookies help us understand what is working well and where the website can be improved.

Where consent is required, analytics cookies will only be activated after you have accepted them.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices or provide enhanced features.

For example, they may:

• Remember website preferences

• Support embedded maps

• Enable social media features

• Improve interaction with website functions

Some functional cookies may be provided by third parties.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Where used, marketing cookies may help us understand whether advertising campaigns are working and may allow advertising to be made more relevant.

These may include technologies provided by services such as:

• Google

• Meta / Facebook

• Instagram

• Other advertising or marketing platforms

These technologies may track activity across websites or services.

Marketing cookies will only be used where legally permitted and, where required, after consent has been provided.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some services used on our website may place their own cookies.

These could include:

• Google Analytics

• Google Maps

• Google services

• Instagram

• Facebook / Meta

• Website hosting providers

• Embedded content providers

• Booking or contact services

These organisations may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.

Shear Strength Barbers does not control the cookies placed directly by third-party providers.

5. Google Analytics

Our website may use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• Pages visited

• Time spent on the website

• Device and browser information

• Approximate geographical information

• Referral source

• Interaction with website pages

This information helps us improve the website and understand how people find Shear Strength Barbers online.

Analytics cookies will only be used where permitted by applicable law and subject to the visitor's cookie preferences.

6. Social Media

Our website may contain links to or integrations with social media platforms including Instagram and Facebook.

If you interact with these features, those platforms may place cookies or collect information about your interaction.

Your use of those services will also be governed by the privacy and cookie policies of the relevant social media company.

7. How We Obtain Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner or consent tool.

This may allow you to:

• Accept cookies

• Reject non-essential cookies

• Manage your preferences

Consent must be given through a clear positive action, and non-essential cookies should not be set before the required consent has been obtained.

Your cookie preferences may themselves be stored so that we can remember your choice.

8. Changing Your Cookie Preferences

Where our website provides a cookie preference tool, you can change your choices at any time.

You can also control cookies through your web browser.

Most browsers allow you to:

• View existing cookies

• Delete cookies

• Block all cookies

• Block certain cookies

• Prevent third-party cookies

• Clear cookies when the browser is closed

Blocking certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website work.

9. Browser Settings

You can manage cookies through the settings of your browser.

Common browsers include:

• Google Chrome

• Safari

• Microsoft Edge

• Firefox

Please refer to your browser's help or privacy settings for instructions.

The ICO also confirms that users can control, delete or block cookies through browser settings.

10. How Long Cookies Remain

Different cookies remain on your device for different periods.

Some are session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser.

Others are persistent cookies, which remain for a defined period or until you delete them.

The exact duration depends on the cookie and the service providing it.

Where appropriate, information about individual cookies and their duration may be displayed through our website's cookie preference tool.

11. Similar Technologies

This policy also applies to technologies that operate in a similar way to cookies.

These may include:

• Tracking pixels

• Tags

• Scripts

• Local storage

• Device identifiers

• Similar storage or access technologies

UK privacy rules can apply to these technologies as well as conventional cookies.

12. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time if:

• Our website changes

• We introduce new services

• We change analytics or advertising providers

• Our use of cookies changes

• Relevant legal or regulatory requirements change

The latest version will be published on this website.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about how cookies are used on our website, please contact:

Shear Strength Barbers
Inside Total Fitness Aintree
Liverpool
L30 7PT

Telephone: 07534 034939
Instagram: @shearstrengthbarbers
Website: shearstrengthbarbers.co.uk

© 2026 Shear Strength Barbers. All rights reserved.

One important thing: having this Cookie Policy page alone isn't enough if you're running Google Analytics, Meta Pixel or other non-essential tracking. The actual cookie banner also needs to let people Accept or Reject those cookies, and the tracking should not fire before the appropriate consent is given.

For Shear Strength I'd make the banner very simple:

We use cookies
We use essential cookies to make our website work and, with your permission, analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website.

Accept All | Reject Non-Essential | Manage Preferences