Last updated: October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Backyard Bartenders uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
We are committed to respecting your privacy and providing clear information about how cookies are used. This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides further information about how we collect and process personal information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow websites to remember information about your visit and can be used for purposes such as keeping a website functioning correctly, remembering preferences, understanding how visitors use a website and measuring the effectiveness of marketing.
Some cookies are necessary for a website to function, while others are optional and require your consent before they can be placed on your device.
2. How We Use Cookies
The Backyard Bartenders website may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Ensure the website functions correctly and securely.
- Remember your cookie preferences.
- Understand how visitors interact with our website.
- Measure website traffic and performance.
- Improve the usability and performance of our website.
- Support website forms and other functionality.
- Measure the effectiveness of advertising or marketing campaigns, where applicable.
Where required by law, optional cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent.
3. Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for essential website functionality and cannot generally be switched off through our cookie consent system.
These cookies may be used for purposes such as website security, maintaining website functionality, remembering your privacy choices and enabling features that you have specifically requested.
Because these cookies are necessary for the website or service to operate, consent is not normally required for their use.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.
They may collect information such as which pages are visited, how visitors arrive at the website, how long visitors spend on different pages and whether they experience technical problems.
This information can help us understand website performance and identify areas that could be improved.
Where required, analytics cookies will only be activated after you have provided your consent.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies can be used to provide additional website features and remember choices you make while using the website.
Depending on the features installed on our website, these cookies may be set by us or by third-party services that we use.
If these cookies are not accepted, some optional website features may not function as intended.
Marketing & Advertising Cookies
Where we use online advertising or marketing tools, marketing cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and how visitors interact with our website after seeing an advertisement.
These technologies may also be used by advertising platforms to help deliver more relevant advertising.
Marketing and advertising cookies will not be activated unless you have provided the appropriate consent where consent is required.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some features of our website may be provided by third-party services. Depending on the services currently enabled on the website, these providers may place or access cookies on your device.
Examples may include:
- Website analytics services
- Social media platforms
- Online advertising platforms
- Embedded maps
- Embedded videos or other media
- Spam prevention and website security services
Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookies and the personal information they process through their services.
Where non-essential third-party cookies are used, they should remain disabled until you provide the appropriate consent.
5. Google Analytics
If Google Analytics is enabled on this website, it may be used to help us understand how visitors find and interact with The Backyard Bartenders website.
Google Analytics may collect information relating to website usage, such as pages viewed, approximate location, device information, browser information and interactions with the website.
Where consent is required, Google Analytics cookies will only be activated after you accept the relevant cookie category.
6. Advertising & Social Media Cookies
If we use advertising or social media tracking technologies, such as those provided by Meta, Google or other advertising platforms, these technologies may be used to measure advertising performance and understand actions taken on our website.
Where required by applicable law, these technologies will only be activated after you provide consent to marketing or advertising cookies.
7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner or preference tool.
Where applicable, you can use this tool to:
- Accept optional cookies.
- Reject optional cookies.
- Choose which categories of cookies you wish to allow.
- Change or withdraw your consent at a later date.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main content of our website, although certain optional features may not function as intended.
You can also control and delete cookies through your web browser settings. The process varies depending on the browser and device you use.
8. Withdrawing Your Consent
Where cookies are based on your consent, you can withdraw or change that consent at any time through the cookie preference controls available on our website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn.
9. How Long Are Cookies Stored?
Cookies may remain on your device for different periods of time.
Session cookies are generally deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the service responsible for setting them.
Where our cookie consent platform provides a detailed cookie list, you can refer to it for further information about individual cookies and their duration.
10. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to the cookies used on our website, our services, third-party technologies or applicable legal requirements.
When changes are made, the updated policy will be published on this page and the “Last updated” date may be revised.
We recommend checking this page periodically for updates.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, the cookies used on our website or how we handle your personal information, please contact us using the details provided on our Contact page.
The Backyard Bartenders
Northern Ireland