Last updated: August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Willowgate Café uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They can be used to help websites function correctly, remember your preferences and provide information about how visitors use a website.

Some cookies are essential for a website to work, while others may be used for purposes such as analytics or improving the visitor experience.

How we use cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies on our website for the following purposes:

Essential cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot usually be switched off. They may be used for functions such as website security, remembering cookie preferences or enabling forms and other website features.

Analytics and performance

We use website analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website and to monitor its performance. This may include information such as the pages visited, how visitors arrived at the website, general visitor activity and how visitors interact with different pages.

This information is used to produce aggregated statistics about the use of our website and to help us identify areas where the website and visitor experience could be improved.

Our website analytics are provided through our WordPress website management platform. The analytics information is used for statistical and performance purposes and is not used by us to identify individual visitors.

Managing your cookie preferences

You can control and delete cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to view which cookies have been stored, delete existing cookies, block certain cookies or prevent websites from storing cookies altogether.

Please be aware that disabling essential cookies may affect the way some parts of our website function.

For more information about managing cookies through your browser, you can visit aboutcookies.org.

Third-party websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites that we think may be useful or of interest.

Once you follow a link to another website, we do not have control over that website or the way it uses cookies or processes your personal information. We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie policies of any third-party websites you visit.

Your personal information

Where information collected through our website constitutes personal data, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.

For further information about how we collect, use and protect personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if the technologies used on our website change or there are changes to applicable legislation.

Any changes will be published on this page and the date at the top of the policy will be updated accordingly.