COOKIE POLICY
SIAN GISSING
Sian Gissing Global Holdings Ltd
Trading as Sian Gissing Strategic Legal Consultancy
Last updated: 27 July 2026
1. About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Sian Gissing Global Holdings Ltd, trading as Sian Gissing Strategic Legal Consultancy, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit:
It should be read alongside our:
- Privacy Policy;
- Terms and Conditions;
- any privacy choices displayed through our Website cookie banner.
In this Policy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Sian Gissing Global Holdings Ltd.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on or accessed from your computer, mobile telephone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies may allow a website to:
- recognise your device;
- remember your preferences;
- keep items in your basket;
- maintain your login session;
- process checkout activity;
- improve Website security;
- understand how visitors use the Website;
- measure advertising or marketing activity.
Cookies may be:
Session cookies
These remain only while your browser is open and are normally deleted when you close it.
Persistent cookies
These remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
First-party cookies
These are placed by the Website you are visiting.
Third-party cookies
These are placed or accessed by another organisation, such as Shopify, Google, Meta, Zoom or another service provider.
The same legal principles may also apply to similar technologies, including pixels, local storage, software development kits, device identifiers and tracking tags.
3. How we use cookies
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- operate and secure the Website;
- remember cookie and privacy choices;
- maintain shopping baskets and checkout sessions;
- administer customer accounts;
- process orders and bookings;
- prevent fraud and misuse;
- remember language, region or display preferences;
- understand Website traffic and performance;
- improve Website content and usability;
- measure the effectiveness of marketing;
- support advertising where consent has been provided;
- provide features delivered through Shopify and connected apps.
4. Categories of cookies
4.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the Website to operate or to provide a function you have requested.
They may be used for:
- security;
- fraud prevention;
- account login;
- shopping baskets;
- checkout;
- payment processing;
- appointment selection;
- remembering your cookie preferences;
- maintaining Website stability;
- load balancing.
These cookies cannot normally be disabled through our consent banner because the Website may not function properly without them.
Consent is not ordinarily required where a cookie is strictly necessary to provide an online service specifically requested by the user.
4.2 Functional cookies
Functional cookies help remember choices and provide enhanced Website features.
They may remember:
- your language;
- your country or region;
- display preferences;
- account settings;
- previous selections.
Where such cookies are not strictly necessary, we will use them only where permitted and, where required, after consent.
4.3 Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how people use the Website.
They may collect information about:
- pages visited;
- time spent on the Website;
- traffic sources;
- clicks and navigation;
- errors;
- browser and device type;
- approximate location;
- Website performance.
We may use Shopify analytics, Google Analytics or other analytics tools where enabled.
Analytics cookies that are not strictly necessary will be activated only where permitted and, where required, after you consent.
4.4 Advertising and marketing cookies
These cookies and similar technologies may be used to:
- measure advertising performance;
- understand whether an advertisement resulted in a visit or purchase;
- create or measure audiences;
- limit repeated advertising;
- personalise advertising where permitted;
- support Meta, Facebook, Instagram, Google or other advertising tools.
These technologies may process identifiers, browsing events, purchase events, contact-matching information or general location data.
Advertising or behavioural-tracking technologies will not be activated in regions requiring opt-in consent unless consent has been given.
4.5 Social-media cookies
Where the Website contains social-media links, embedded content or connected services, providers such as Meta, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or other platforms may place or access cookies.
Those providers may use information according to their own privacy and cookie notices.
Merely linking to a social-media page does not necessarily mean that tracking cookies are placed. However, embedded feeds, videos, pixels or social-login features may involve third-party processing.
5. Shopify cookies and technologies
The Website is hosted through Shopify.
Shopify may use cookies and similar technologies to provide:
- Website hosting;
- cart and checkout functions;
- security and fraud detection;
- customer accounts;
- analytics;
- order administration;
- payment-related functions;
- privacy preference management;
- Shopify Pixels and connected app functionality.
Shopify’s cookie banner controls Shopify-specific cookies and pixels. Manually installed third-party pixels or cookies may require additional configuration to ensure that they respect the visitor’s consent choices.
Shopify provides customer-privacy settings that allow merchants to configure cookie banners by country or region, permit visitors to change consent choices and create data-sharing opt-out pages.
6. Third-party services that may use cookies
Depending on which features are enabled, cookies or similar technologies may be used by:
- Shopify;
- Shopify Payments or other payment providers;
- Easy Appointment Booking or another appointment provider;
- Clio;
- Zoom;
- Google;
- Meta, Facebook and Instagram;
- analytics providers;
- email-marketing providers;
- fraud-prevention or cybersecurity providers;
- other Shopify apps installed on the Website.
The exact providers may change as our systems develop.
Third-party providers may act:
- as processors acting on our instructions;
- as independent controllers for their own purposes;
- in another role described in their own terms and privacy notices.
7. Consent and our cookie banner
When you first visit the Website from a region where consent is required, you should see a cookie banner.
The banner may allow you to:
- accept all permitted cookies;
- reject non-essential cookies;
- manage your preferences;
- review further information.
We will not intentionally place non-essential cookies before valid consent is obtained where prior consent is legally required.
Consent must be given through a clear positive action. Simply continuing to browse is not treated as valid consent where the law requires an active choice.
8. Changing or withdrawing your preferences
You may change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time.
You can usually do this by selecting:
Cookie preferences
in the Website footer or through the privacy controls displayed by Shopify.
Shopify allows customers to reopen and change their consent preferences after the original banner has been dismissed.
Withdrawal of consent does not make earlier processing unlawful.
Changing your preferences may not remove cookies that are already stored on your device. You may also need to delete them through your browser settings.
9. Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to:
- view cookies;
- block cookies;
- delete cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- clear stored Website data;
- receive alerts before cookies are placed.
The steps differ depending on the browser and device.
Blocking all cookies may affect:
- checkout;
- account login;
- appointment booking;
- payment functions;
- saved preferences;
- general Website operation.
10. Global Privacy Control and opt-out mechanisms
Where supported by applicable law and our Website configuration, we may recognise signals such as Global Privacy Control or provide a data-sharing opt-out page.
These tools may allow visitors to object to certain advertising, sharing or profiling activities.
Shopify can use cookie choices, opt-out pages and Global Privacy Control signals to restrict non-essential uses of data within Shopify Network Intelligence where that feature is enabled.
11. Cookie duration
Different cookies remain active for different periods.
They may last:
- only for the browser session;
- for a few minutes or hours;
- for several days or months;
- until the expiry date set by the provider;
- until you delete them.
The precise duration depends on the cookie, its purpose and the provider that placed it.
We seek to ensure that cookies are retained only for a proportionate period.
12. Personal information collected through cookies
Cookie and similar-technology information may include:
- IP address;
- device or browser identifiers;
- approximate location;
- pages viewed;
- traffic source;
- shopping or booking interactions;
- purchase events;
- consent choices;
- timestamps;
- technical security information;
- account or session identifiers.
Where this information identifies or can reasonably be linked to an individual, it will be handled as personal information under our Privacy Policy.
13. International processing
Shopify, Google, Meta and other technology providers may process information in countries outside the United Kingdom or outside the visitor’s country.
Where international-transfer rules apply to processing for which we are responsible, we will seek to use an appropriate lawful safeguard as described in our Privacy Policy.
14. Changes to cookies or providers
We may update the cookies, technologies and providers used on the Website.
Changes may occur when we:
- install or remove Shopify apps;
- change analytics tools;
- connect marketing platforms;
- introduce new booking or payment features;
- change Shopify privacy settings;
- update Website functionality.
We will review this Policy periodically and update it where necessary.
If a material change requires fresh consent, the cookie banner may be displayed again.
15. Your rights
Where cookie information constitutes personal information, you may have rights under applicable data-protection law, including rights to:
- access information;
- request correction;
- request deletion;
- object to certain processing;
- withdraw consent;
- complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office or another competent authority.
Further information is provided in our Privacy Policy.
For further information about our approach to confidentiality, information governance and responsible data stewardship, please read our Governance & Data Protection page.
16. Contact us
For questions about cookies or privacy choices, contact:
Sian Gissing Global Holdings Ltd
Trading as Sian Gissing Strategic Legal Consultancy
128 City Road
London
England
EC1V 2NX
United Kingdom
Email: legal@siangissing.com
Company number: 171389981