Below we detail our cookie policy. To view our privacy policy on how we collect and process your personal information and data, please consult our Privacy Policy page.

Please read about our cookie policy by scrolling through this page. For more information about cookies generally, please consult the following websites: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

This website specifies its cookie policy and refers to cookies according to the 2012 ICC UK Cookie Guide. Please consult this guide if you have any additional queries or contact us at: admin@andsheworewhite.com.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device(s) when you visit this website and/or the ASWW online journal, to enable us to recognise your device(s). The information collected in this way facilitates and generally eases your browsing experience of this website.

If you choose to accept cookies on this website, you continuously retain the ability to later delete them from your device(s) by erasing your web browser history, for example. By later deleting cookies, any preferences, access and/or settings controlled by them will be deleted and will need to be re-instated when you subsequently visit or access this website.

If you disable or reject cookies, some features or pages of this website may not function properly or as they were intended and/or they may not be accessible to you.

Cookies have various purposes and perform different functions, such as improving the user experience and remembering your user preferences. Some cookies may enable online advertisements to appear more relevant to your own interests.

Some cookies, such as session cookies, will be stored on your device(s) temporarily and purely for the duration of your visit to a website. These cookies will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies remain on your device(s) for a specific set period of time.

A third-party cookie is a cookie that is set by a third-party domain. These can be contrasted with first-party cookies which are established by the website you are directly visiting.

The cookies used on the website have been categorised according to the categories established in the 2012 ICC UK Cookie Guide.

2. How do we use cookies?

The founders of the And She Wore White website and the ASWW journal hold a generally minimalist attitude towards cookies, and we thus strive to use strictly necessary and performance cookies. However, additional cookie categories may also appear, such as when third-party domains are linked throughout this website. We therefore give you the option to accept or reject the following cookie categories: performance cookies; functionality cookies; and targeting or advertising cookies. For example, we may collect information and data pertaining to your navigation throughout this website through the use of JavaScript code, third-party website providers, and web beacons.

For more information on the specific cookie types and what they mean, please read section 3 (below), ‘What cookie types do we use?’.

3. What cookie types do we use?

According to the ICC UK Cookie Guide, the cookie types you are given the option to accept or reject are as follows:

(i) Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are generally essential cookies that enable you to navigate throughout the website. Examples of such cookies include:

• Cookies that remember prior user actions when returning to a page in the same session, such as by remembering previously entered text
• Multimedia content player cookies (such as flash player cookies)
• Third-party social content sharing cookies for users who have already signed into their social networks and which do not track users.

As these cookies are strictly necessary, we do not need to seek your consent before we use them.

(ii) Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information on how visitors use and navigate throughout a website, with the sole aims of facilitating website performance and improvement. Examples of such cookies include:

• Web analytics cookies which control the performance and design of the website. Sometimes these are third-party analytics cookies which permit us to understand visitor use of the website.
• Error-based cookies which may generate and monitor error messages on web pages

These cookies collect anonymous information and individual visitors are not identified.

When you first access this website you will be given the option to accept or reject these cookie types. These fall within the ‘Performance’ category of the initial ‘Cookies’ banner. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device(s).

You retain the continuous ability to restrict, disable, or delete these cookies by clearing your web browser history or adjusting your web browser settings. However, by doing this you may be unable to access some areas of this website and/or may encounter features that do not function as intended.

(iii) Functionality Cookies

These cookies permit websites to offer more personal features and to remember user choices. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other third-party websites. Examples of such cookies include the following:

• Cookies that remember a user’s choice
• Cookies that remember a user’s preferred settings, such as font preferences or colors

By using our website, you agree that we may place these types of cookies on your device(s). In our initial ‘Cookies’ banner, these cookies may be accepted or rejected in the ‘Functional’ section.

You retain the continuous ability to restrict, disable, or delete these cookies by clearing your web browser history or adjusting your web browser settings. However, by doing this you may be unable to access some areas of this website and/or may encounter features that do not function as intended.

(iv) Targeting or advertising cookies

These cookies are persistent, but time-limited. They are used to deliver specific adverts to a user by collecting browsing habits, for example. This information is shared with other third-party organisations, such as advertisers. Examples of such cookies include the following:

• Cookies placed by advertisers to monitor the user’s browsing habits.
• Cookies placed by advertisers that conjunct with a functionality service provided by the website, such as the ability to comment on an article post or to share a website to the user’s social network profile.

By using our website, you agree that we may place these types of cookies on your device(s). In our ‘Cookies’ banner, these cookies may be accepted or rejected in the ‘Targeting or Advertisement’ section.

You retain the continuous ability to restrict, disable, or delete these cookies by clearing your web browser history or adjusting your web browser settings. However, by doing this you may be unable to access some areas of this website and/or may encounter features that do not function as intended.

If you have any further queries regarding our cookie policy, please send them to admin@andsheworewhite.com.