Privacy and Cookie Policy

Privacy Policy

We never send out unsolicited emails or pass on email addresses to any third parties. The only emails you receive from us will be to inform you of the status of your order, and updates of Festival events.

Our policy is to keep the personal information we receive completely confidential and used solely for internal purposes. We will not share your personal information with any other parties.

Cookie and Pixel Policy

Our website uses cookies and pixels to provide the best experience. This Cookie and Pixel Policy explains what cookies and pixels are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, and how to manage your cookie settings.

Cookies are small data files stored on your device when a website loads in your browser. A tracking pixel is a tiny 1x1 pixel graphic embedded in our website that collects information about visits to a page and stores it on a third-party server.

Our website uses both first-party and third-party cookies for various purposes. Some cookies are essential to allow our website to operate. Others, including third-party cookies, are optional.

We use the following cookies and pixels:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are first-party cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These cookies do not store any personal identifiable data.
• Functionality cookies. These first-party cookies are used to remember your preferences, for example your user settings and login details, to enhance your user experience.
• Analytics or performance cookies. We use Google Analytics to allow us to understand our audiences and their behaviour on our website, such as the source of your visit, what pages you visit and similar information. We do not make any attempt to find out the identity of those visiting our website. You can find out more at Google technologies and cookies.
• Targeting or marketing cookies and pixels. We use a pixel to allow us to serve adverts for the Book Festival that may be relevant to groups of Meta (Facebook/Instagram) users, and to evaluate the success of that advertising. You can find out more at Meta Privacy Policy and Meta Cookies Policy.

Links to other websites and platforms

If you open the website checkout then our payment provider, Stripe, will also set essential cookies that are required to manage the flow through credit card processing and for fraud protection.

If you visit a website page with a third-party YouTube video player, they may also set their own cookies to provide an enhanced experience.

Our website contains links to other websites and social platforms. These companies may use cookies and pixels to provide services or track your use of these services. Please be aware that these third-party websites and services are not governed by this Cookie Policy.

Setting your cookie preferences

When you first visit our website, you will be prompted to set your cookie preferences. If you would like to update your preferences, you can do so by selecting Manage cookie preferences in the footer.

You can also change your cookie settings or remove cookies from your device in your browser. However, removing or blocking all cookies may break some functionality on our website. To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage cookies on all standard web browsers, go to aboutcookies.org and select the browser and version you are using.