Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Vape Local (“Vape Local”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit vapelocal.co.uk (the “Website”).

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect your 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 and similar technologies help websites function correctly, remember your preferences and understand how visitors use a website. They can also be used to measure the effectiveness of advertising and, where you have given your consent, support personalised marketing.

We may also use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts and local storage. References to “cookies” in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.

2. How we use cookies

Vape Local uses cookies for a number of purposes, including operating our online store, keeping the Website secure, remembering your preferences, understanding how our Website is used and measuring our marketing activity.

The cookies used on our Website fall into the following categories.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the Website and the services you request to function correctly.

They may be used to:

• maintain your shopping basket;
• enable checkout and payment functionality;
• maintain your session as you navigate the Website;
• provide security and fraud-prevention functionality;
• remember your privacy and cookie choices;
• support account and login functionality;
• provide functionality necessary to complete a purchase.

Because these technologies are necessary to provide the Website or a service you have requested, your consent may not be required for their use.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies allow us to provide additional Website functionality and remember choices or preferences you make.

For example, they may remember settings or preferences so that you do not need to enter them again each time you visit.

Where consent is required for a functional cookie or technology, it will not be activated until you have made the relevant choice through our cookie controls.

Analytics and performance cookies

We use analytics and performance technologies, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors use Vape Local.

These technologies may collect information about matters such as:

• pages visited;
• how visitors arrive at our Website;
• how visitors navigate the Website;
• interactions with Website features;
• errors or performance issues; and
• purchasing and checkout activity.

We use this information to understand Website performance and to help us improve the experience we provide to our customers.

Where consent is required, analytics and performance technologies will not be activated unless you have chosen to allow them.

Advertising and marketing cookies

With your consent, we may use cookies and similar technologies to understand the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing activity and to support marketing and customer communications.

These technologies may help us:

• measure advertising performance;
• understand whether an advertisement resulted in a visit or purchase;
• understand engagement with our marketing campaigns; and
• deliver or measure advertising on third-party platforms.

Some of these technologies may be provided by third parties, including Klaviyo and PushOwl. Those providers may be able to recognise your browser or device when you visit other websites or use their services.

Advertising and marketing technologies that require consent will not be activated unless you choose to allow them.

3. Shopify

Our Website is currently operated using Shopify, an e-commerce platform provided by Shopify.

Shopify uses cookies and similar technologies to provide functionality necessary for the operation of the online store. This can include technologies used for shopping baskets, checkout, security, customer sessions, customer account authentication and privacy preferences.

Shopify may also process information collected through the Website in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies.

As our e-commerce platform or technology providers may change from time to time, the specific technologies used to operate Vape Local may also change. We will review and update this policy and our cookie controls where appropriate following any material changes.

4. Third-party services

We use third-party service providers to provide functionality or services on the Website, including Google Analytics, Klaviyo and PushOwl where enabled.

Depending on the services currently enabled, these providers may support:

• payment processing;
• website hosting and e-commerce functionality;
• analytics;
• marketing and advertising;
• email and customer communications;
• security and fraud prevention; and
• other functionality used to operate our online store.

Some third-party services may place or access cookies or similar technologies on your device.

Where required, we will obtain your consent before enabling these technologies and provide information about the relevant providers through our cookie controls.

Third-party providers may process information collected through their technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.

5. Cookies currently used on our Website

The exact cookies and similar technologies used by Vape Local may change as we develop the Website, update our e-commerce platform or change the services we use.

Information about the cookies and technologies currently in use, including their purpose, provider, category and duration, is available through our cookie settings or consent management tool where applicable.

Cookies currently associated with the operation of our Shopify store include _shopify_essential, cart and localization. These and other strictly necessary Shopify technologies may be used to:

• maintain shopping basket information;
• support checkout;
• maintain customer sessions and support customer account login;
• provide security and fraud prevention;
• remember country, market, currency or other Website settings; and
• record privacy and cookie preferences.

Optional analytics and marketing technologies may also be used where you have made the relevant choice through our cookie controls. These may include Google Analytics and technologies provided by Klaviyo and PushOwl, which can use cookies, local storage or other similar browser technologies.

6. Your cookie choices

Where applicable, when you first visit Vape Local, you will be presented with cookie controls allowing you to choose whether certain optional technologies can be used.

Where consent is required, you can choose to accept or reject those technologies.

You can also manage individual categories of optional cookies through our cookie settings and manage preferences page.

Choosing not to accept optional cookies will not prevent you from accessing the Website or making a purchase, although certain optional features may work differently.

Strictly necessary technologies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie controls because they are required to provide the Website or services you request.

7. Changing or withdrawing your consent

You can change your cookie choices or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie settings or manage preferences page available on our Website.

Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before your consent was withdrawn.

You can also manage cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies stored on your device.

Please be aware that blocking strictly necessary cookies through your browser settings may prevent parts of the Website, including the shopping basket or checkout, from functioning correctly.

8. How long are cookies stored?

Different cookies remain on your device for different periods.

Session cookies generally remain in place for the duration of your visit and expire when you close your browser or shortly afterwards.

Persistent cookies remain on your device between browsing sessions for a specified period or until you delete them.

The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the provider responsible for them. Further information about the duration of cookies used on the Website is available through our cookie settings and manage preferences page.

We periodically review the cookies and similar technologies used on Vape Local and their retention periods.

9. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

This may happen if we change the way our Website operates, introduce new services or technologies, change our e-commerce platform, work with different service providers or where there are changes to applicable laws or regulatory guidance.

When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this policy and, where required, ask you to make your cookie choices again.

10. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how Vape Local uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us:

Vape Local
Traynor House
Traynor Way
Peterlee
SR8 2RU

Email: contact@vapelocal.co.uk
Telephone: 03333 050 981