Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Nationwide Fencing Supplies Ltd (“Nationwide Fencing Supplies”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise your device and remember information about your visit.
Cookies can help websites function correctly, remember items placed in a shopping basket, retain customer preferences, measure website performance and provide content or advertising that is more relevant to visitors.
We may also use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and device identifiers. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.
2. Who is responsible for this website?
This website is operated by:
Nationwide Fencing Supplies Ltd
Birchill Road. Knowsley Industrial Estate. Liverpool L33 7TD
Email: info@nationwidefencingsupplies.co.uk
Telephone: 0151 203 2102
Registered in England, No. 11558816
VAT Reg No. 349 3207 93
For the purposes of applicable UK data-protection law, Nationwide Fencing Supplies Ltd is responsible for the personal information collected through its use of cookies, except where another organisation independently determines how information collected through its cookies will be used.
3. First-party and third-party cookies
Cookies placed directly by Nationwide Fencing Supplies are known as **first-party cookies**.
Some cookies may be placed or accessed by other organisations whose technology or services are used on our website. These are known as **third-party cookies**.
Third-party cookies may be associated with services such as:
• Website analytics.
• Online payment processing.
• Embedded maps or videos.
• Customer reviews.
• Live chat or customer-support tools.
• Fraud prevention and website security.
• Advertising and marketing platforms.
• Social-media features.
Where required, these services will only be activated after you have provided the appropriate cookie consent.
4. Session and persistent cookies
We may use both session and persistent cookies.
**Session cookies** operate temporarily and are normally deleted when you close your browser.
**Persistent cookies** remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them. They can be used to remember your preferences or recognise a returning device.
The lifespan of each cookie used on this website should be shown in the cookie list provided below or within our cookie-preference centre.
5. Types of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website and online shop to function properly. They may be used to:
• Maintain the security of the website.
• Enable pages to load and operate correctly.
• Remember products placed in your shopping basket.
• retain the contents of your basket while you continue shopping.
• Support the checkout and payment process.
• Remember your cookie-consent choices.
• Enable account login and authentication.
• Prevent fraud, misuse or unauthorised access.
• Maintain essential website and server functionality.
These cookies cannot normally be switched off through our preference centre because the services requested by the user could not function properly without them.
Examples may include cookies used by WordPress, WooCommerce, the website’s security services, payment providers and cookie-consent system. The exact cookies used must be confirmed by the finished website’s cookie scan.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to provide additional features and remember choices you make. They may be used to remember:
• Preferred display or accessibility settings.
• Previously selected products or options.
• Location or delivery preferences.
• Information entered during a website session.
• Customer-service or live-chat settings.
If you do not allow these cookies, some optional website features may not function as intended.
Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors find and use our website. They may collect information such as:
• The pages visited.
• The approximate length of a visit.
• How visitors move between pages.
• Which links or buttons are selected.
• The type of browser or device being used.
• Generalised location information.
• Whether a page or feature produces an error.
• How visitors arrived at the website.
We use this information to measure website performance, identify problems and improve our content, products and customer experience.
Where consent is legally required, analytics and performance cookies will not be placed or accessed until you have chosen to accept them.
Our analytics providers may process information collected through their technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Advertising and marketing cookies
Advertising and marketing cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of our advertising, limit how frequently an advert is shown and present advertising that may be more relevant to a visitor’s interests.
These technologies may record visits to our website, pages viewed, products considered and actions taken. Information may be shared with advertising or social-media partners where the visitor has consented.
Advertising and marketing cookies will not be activated before the appropriate consent has been provided.
Rejecting these cookies will not prevent you from seeing advertisements, but the advertising you see may be less relevant to your interests.
Social-media and embedded-content cookies
Pages on our website may include content or features supplied by third parties, such as videos, maps, social-media posts, sharing tools or review services.
These third parties may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about how their content is used. They may also be able to associate this information with an existing account held with them.
Where required, embedded content that uses non-essential cookies will remain blocked until the visitor has provided consent.
6. Cookies used by our online shop
Our website uses WordPress and WooCommerce technology to operate its online shop.
WooCommerce may use strictly necessary cookies to:
• Remember the contents of a shopping basket.
• Identify when basket contents change.
• maintain a customer’s shopping session.
• Support account and checkout functions.
• Enable purchases to be completed securely.
Depending on the final website configuration, these may include cookies with names such as:
• `woocommerce_cart_hash`
• `woocommerce_items_in_cart`
• `wp_woocommerce_session_`
• `woocommerce_recently_viewed`
• `store_notice`
Not every cookie listed above will necessarily be used. The definitive list generated from the live website should appear in Section 10 of this policy or in the cookie-preference centre.
7. Payment providers
When you proceed to payment, cookies or similar technologies may be used by our payment provider to process the transaction, prevent fraud, authenticate payments and maintain security.
Some of these technologies may be strictly necessary to complete a payment. Others will only be used where consent or another valid legal basis applies.
The payment providers available at checkout and their relevant privacy information should be identified in our Privacy Policy and, where applicable, in the detailed cookie list below.
8. Your cookie choices
When you first visit our website, you should be shown a cookie banner or preference tool that allows you to:
• Accept non-essential cookies.
• Reject non-essential cookies.
• Choose which optional cookie categories you wish to allow.
• Read further information about the technologies being used.
Strictly necessary cookies may operate without consent where they are genuinely required to provide the website or service requested by the visitor.
Analytics, advertising and other non-essential cookies will only be activated after the required consent has been obtained.
Choosing “Accept all” is optional. You can continue to use the website if you reject non-essential cookies, although some optional functions or embedded content may be unavailable.
9. Changing or withdrawing your consent
You can review or change your cookie choices at any time by selecting the **Cookie Settings** link displayed [in the website footer/on the cookie icon].
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn. It should prevent the relevant cookies from being used in future, although you may also need to remove existing cookies through your browser settings.
Withdrawing consent should be as straightforward as giving it.
10. Detailed cookie list
The following table must be completed from a scan of the finished website and kept updated whenever plugins, integrations or website services change.
| Cookie or technology | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
| ——————– | ————————————— | ——————————————————– | —————————- | —————– |
| [Insert cookie name] | Nationwide Fencing Supplies/WooCommerce | Shopping-basket or checkout functionality | Strictly necessary | [Insert duration] |
| [Insert cookie name] | [Cookie-consent provider] | Records cookie choices | Strictly necessary | [Insert duration] |
| [Insert cookie name] | [Security provider] | Website security and fraud prevention | Strictly necessary | [Insert duration] |
| [Insert cookie name] | [Analytics provider] | Measures visits and website use | Analytics | [Insert duration] |
| [Insert cookie name] | [Payment provider] | Payment processing, authentication or fraud prevention | Strictly necessary/[confirm] | [Insert duration] |
| [Insert cookie name] | [Advertising provider] | Advertising measurement or personalisation | Marketing | [Insert duration] |
| [Insert cookie name] | [Embedded-content provider] | Enables videos, maps, reviews or other embedded features | Functional/Marketing | [Insert duration] |
Alternatively, where our cookie-management platform automatically produces a complete and current cookie declaration, that declaration forms part of this Cookie Policy.
11. Managing cookies through your browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their settings. You may also be able to configure your browser to notify you before a cookie is stored.
Blocking all cookies may prevent parts of our website from working properly. In particular, it may affect shopping-basket, customer-account and checkout functions.
Instructions vary between browsers and devices. Please consult the support or settings section of your browser for further information.
Browser settings alone may not control every similar technology, such as local storage, tracking pixels or certain embedded scripts. Our cookie-preference tool should therefore be used to control optional technologies placed through this website.
12. International data transfers
Some third-party providers may process or store information outside the United Kingdom.
Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal data and is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps to ensure the transfer complies with applicable UK data-protection law. Further information about international transfers should be provided in our Privacy Policy.
13. Personal information and cookies
Some cookies and similar technologies can identify or single out a device, browser or user. Information collected through these technologies may therefore constitute personal data even if it does not directly identify a visitor by name.
Further information about:
• The personal information we collect.
• Why we use it.
• Our legal bases for processing.
• Who we share it with.
• How long we retain it.
• International transfers.
• Your data-protection rights.
can be found in our Privacy Policy.
14. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we change the cookies, plugins, payment services or other technologies used on our website, or when legal requirements and regulatory guidance change.
The latest version will always be published on this page. The date at the beginning of the policy indicates when it was most recently updated.
We recommend reviewing your cookie choices and this policy periodically.
15. Contact us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or how we process personal information, please contact:
Nationwide Fencing Supplies Ltd
Birchill Road. Knowsley Industrial Estate. Liverpool L33 7TD
Email: info@nationwidefencingsupplies.co.uk
Telephone: 0151 203 2102
You may also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Details are available at (http://www.ico.org.uk.