Legal & compliance
Cookies policy
What cookies this website uses, what each group is for, and how to change or withdraw your choices at any time.
About cookies
A cookie is a small file that a website stores on your device. Cookies, and similar technologies such as local storage, let a website work properly, remember choices you have made, and count how many people use each page. Some are essential. The rest are only used if you allow them.
We ask for your permission the first time you visit. Until you choose, only strictly necessary cookies are used. You can change your mind whenever you like:
The four groups of cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
Needed for the website to work. They remember your cookie choices and keep our staff signed in to the private staff area. These cannot be switched off, and they are never used to track you or to advertise to you.
Performance cookies
Count visits and show which pages people find useful, so we can improve the information we publish. They are set by Google Analytics and only used if you allow them. Nothing here identifies you by name.
Functionality cookies
Remember choices you make while using the website, such as how content is displayed, so you do not have to set them again. Only used if you allow them.
Targeting and advertising cookies
We do not use any at present. If we ever do, they would measure advertising and show adverts relevant to you. The choice is offered in cookie settings so that your preference is already recorded.
The cookies we use
| Name | Group | Purpose | Where | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| valentines.cookie-consent.v1 | Strictly necessary | Remembers your cookie choices, the date you made them and the version of this notice you were shown. | Whole website | Until you clear it, or you change your choices |
| Staff sign-in session | Strictly necessary | Keeps a member of Valentines staff signed in to the private staff area. | Staff area only | Until sign-out or the session expires |
| sidebar_state | Strictly necessary | Remembers whether the staff area side panel is open or closed. | Staff area only | 7 days |
| _ga | Performance | Google Analytics: tells returning visits apart from new ones. | Public website | 2 years |
| _ga_QM3VKLWQSK | Performance | Google Analytics: keeps track of a single visit to the site. | Public website | 2 years |
| val-display-mode | Functionality | Remembers your chosen display preference for the website. | Public website | Until you clear it |
| None | Targeting and advertising | No advertising or targeting cookies are used on this website. | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Retention periods for the Google Analytics cookies are those published by Google. Web fonts used on this site are loaded as a stylesheet and set no cookies.
Google reviews
The Google rating and review excerpt displayed on this website do not set cookies or use your browser’s local storage. Our server retrieves the review information from Google, so displaying it does not load a Google widget or tracking script in your browser. No additional cookie consent is needed to display these reviews.
If you follow a link to read all reviews, you leave our website and visit Google. Google’s own privacy and cookie policies then apply.
Who receives this information
- Valentines: for the strictly necessary and functionality cookies. These stay on your device and are not shared.
- Google: for the performance cookies, as our analytics provider, which processes the measurement information on our behalf.
How we handle personal information more generally is explained in our Privacy Policy.
Changing or withdrawing your choices
Use the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page, or the button below, to see your current choices and change them. Changes take effect immediately: if you turn performance cookies off, measurement stops and the analytics cookies are removed.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of this website working.
Questions
If you have a question about cookies on this website, please contact us.