Cookie Policy
Effective date: May 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Clara & Maeve Boutique uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
For questions about this policy, contact us at support@clara-maeve.com.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.
They help websites function correctly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the site and, where you consent, support advertising and marketing activities.
Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for essential website functions, including:
- Keeping products in your shopping basket
- Processing checkout securely
- Remembering privacy and cookie choices
- Preventing fraud
- Maintaining website security
- Allowing account and payment functions to work
These cookies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie-preference tool because the website may not function correctly without them.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices such as your preferred language, location, currency or other display settings.
Disabling them may affect certain personalised features.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand:
- Which pages and products are visited
- How visitors move through the website
- Whether technical errors occur
- Which parts of the website perform well
- How we can improve the shopping experience
We will request permission before using non-essential analytics cookies where consent is required.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
With your permission, marketing cookies and pixels may be used to:
- Measure advertising performance
- Understand whether an advertisement led to a visit or purchase
- Show more relevant advertisements
- Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
- Support retargeting across other websites and platforms
These technologies may be provided by advertising partners such as Meta or Google when those services are installed on our store.
Non-essential analytics and advertising technologies should not be activated before the visitor provides valid consent.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by our website.
Third-party cookies may be placed by services that support our store, such as:
- Shopify
- Payment providers
- Analytics services
- Advertising platforms
- Customer-support tools
- Embedded content providers
These organisations may process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
Managing Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner that allows you to:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Choose which cookie categories to allow
Consent must be informed and freely given, and visitors should receive clear information about what cookies do and why they are used.
You can change your preferences later through the Cookie Preferences link available on our website, where enabled.
You may also delete or block cookies using your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the website, basket or checkout from functioning correctly.
How Long Cookies Remain
Some cookies expire when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies.
Other cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.
The duration depends on the purpose of each cookie and the service placing it. Your cookie-preference panel should provide more specific information about active cookies where available.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- Our website features change
- We install or remove Shopify applications
- Our analytics or advertising services change
- Legal or regulatory requirements are updated
The effective date at the top shows when this version was last updated.
Contact Us
For questions about cookies or privacy, contact:
Clara & Maeve Boutique
Email: support@clara-maeve.com
Customer-care hours:
Monday–Friday: 9:00–17:00 UK time
Saturday and Sunday: Closed