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Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026

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

It explains what these technologies are, why they may be used and the choices available to you.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how The SkinWish collects and uses personal information.

2. Who We Are

The SkinWish is the trading name of:

Tetiana Tonkonoh, a sole trader trading as The SkinWish

Business address:
43 Leven Walk, Livingston, EH54 5AL, Scotland

Email:
info@theskinwish.co.uk

References in this Cookie Policy to “The SkinWish”, “we”, “us” or “our” mean the sole trader identified above.

3. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small files or pieces of information that may be stored on or accessed from your device when you visit a website.

Cookies can perform a variety of functions.

For example, they can help a website operate correctly, remember information or preferences, understand how visitors use the website and, where permitted, support advertising and marketing.

Some cookies last only for the duration of your browsing session and are deleted when you close your browser.

Others may remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

4. Similar Technologies

Websites may also use technologies that perform functions similar to cookies.

Depending on the services used on our website, these may include pixels, tags, local storage or similar technologies.

In this Cookie Policy, references to “cookies” generally include these similar technologies where appropriate.

5. How The SkinWish Uses Cookies

Depending on the features and services operating on our website, cookies may be used for purposes including:

enabling essential website functions;
maintaining security;
supporting the shopping basket and checkout;
remembering choices or preferences;
understanding how visitors use the website;
measuring website performance;
improving website functionality;
measuring the effectiveness of marketing; and
supporting advertising where you have made the relevant choice.

Not every category described in this policy will necessarily be active at all times.

The cookies actually used may change as our website, ecommerce platform and service providers change.

6. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are used where required for the website or a service requested by you to operate.

They may be used for purposes such as:

maintaining your shopping basket;
enabling checkout;
processing security-related functions;
maintaining website sessions;
helping prevent fraud;
remembering privacy or cookie choices; and
supporting other functionality necessary to provide a service you have requested.

Because these technologies are necessary for the relevant website or service functionality, they may not require your consent where the applicable legal exemption applies.

You may be able to block these technologies using your browser settings, but doing so may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.

7. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may allow the website to provide additional functionality or remember choices you make.

For example, they may help remember certain preferences or improve how particular website features operate.

Where applicable law requires consent for these cookies, they will not be used until the required consent has been obtained.

If you do not allow functional cookies, some optional features may not operate as intended.

8. Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics and performance technologies can help us understand how visitors interact with The SkinWish website.

For example, they may provide information about:

which pages are visited;
how visitors move through the website;
how visitors arrived at the website;
whether technical errors occur; and
general website performance.

We may use this information to understand website usage and improve our website and services.

Where consent is required by applicable law, analytics technologies requiring that consent will not be used until you have made the relevant choice.

9. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Advertising or marketing technologies may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising, measure marketing activity or help provide advertising that is more relevant to users.

Depending on the technology used, these tools may recognise a browser or device across different websites or services.

Advertising and marketing technologies that require consent will not be used unless you have provided the required consent.

If you do not consent to advertising or marketing cookies, you may still see advertising, but it may be less personalised and our ability to measure advertising performance may be reduced.

10. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be set directly by The SkinWish website. These are commonly referred to as first-party cookies.

Other cookies or similar technologies may be provided by third-party services used in connection with our website. These are commonly referred to as third-party cookies.

Third-party services may include, where applicable, providers supporting ecommerce functionality, payments, website performance, analytics, advertising, communications or other website features.

Where a third party processes personal information for its own purposes, its own privacy information may also apply.

When you visit our website, you may be presented with options concerning cookies or similar technologies that are not strictly necessary.

Where consent is required, you will be able to make a choice before the relevant technologies are used.

You should be able to reject non-essential cookies as well as accept them.

You may also be able to choose between different categories of optional cookies.

Strictly necessary technologies may remain active where they are required to provide the website or a service requested by you and the applicable legal exemption applies.

12. Changing Your Choices

Where applicable, you can change or withdraw your cookie choices after making them.

Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Changing your preferences may prevent certain optional website features from operating or may reduce our ability to understand website usage or measure marketing performance.

13. Browser Controls

Most browsers provide controls that allow you to view, delete or block cookies.

The available settings depend on the browser and device you use.

Blocking all cookies through your browser may affect essential ecommerce functionality, including shopping basket, login or checkout functions.

Browser settings operate separately from any cookie choices provided directly on The SkinWish website.

14. How Long Cookies Last

Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies generally remain active only during a browsing session and are deleted after the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies remain for a specified period or until they are deleted.

The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the technology or service that provides them.

Where available, information about individual cookies and their duration may be provided through the cookie preference interface used on our website.

We will not intentionally retain cookie information for longer than reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

15. Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of information that constitutes personal data under UK data protection law.

Where this occurs, that information will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

For more information about how The SkinWish processes personal information, the lawful bases we rely on, data sharing, international transfers, retention and your rights, please see our Privacy Policy.

16. International Processing

Some third-party technology providers may process information collected through cookies or similar technologies outside the United Kingdom.

Where such processing involves personal information for which The SkinWish is responsible, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by UK data protection law.

Further information is provided in our Privacy Policy.

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

This may happen if we change the technologies or service providers used on our website or if legal requirements or regulatory guidance change.

The current version will be published on our website and the “Last updated” date will be amended where appropriate.

18. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact:

Tetiana Tonkonoh
trading as The SkinWish