Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 14 September 2026
Website: www.avanfoods.co.uk
Email: info@avanfoods.co.uk
Location: Sutton (SM1), United Kingdom

Introduction

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

Cookies help our website operate correctly, remember certain preferences, support shopping and checkout functions, and help us understand how our website is used.

Where required, non-essential cookies will only be used after you have made an appropriate choice through our cookie consent controls.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

They can allow a website to recognise your device, remember information about your visit and provide certain website functions.

Similar technologies may include local storage, tracking pixels, scripts and other technologies that store or access information on your device.

How We Use Cookies

AvanFoods may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • keep our website secure;
  • operate the shopping basket and checkout;
  • remember selected preferences;
  • maintain login or account sessions;
  • process orders and payments;
  • improve website performance;
  • understand how visitors use our website; and
  • support third-party services that are necessary for certain website features.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly.

These may support functions such as:

  • shopping basket operation;
  • checkout;
  • secure payment processing;
  • account login and authentication;
  • website security;
  • order processing; and
  • remembering cookie preferences.

These technologies may be used where they are necessary to provide a service you have requested or where another applicable legal exception permits their use.

Blocking these cookies may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

Functional and Preference Cookies

Functional cookies may help the website remember choices you make and provide a more convenient browsing experience.

Depending on the features available on our website, these may include:

  • language preferences;
  • display preferences;
  • previously selected settings; and
  • other website preferences.

Where consent is required for these technologies, they will only be used after you have made the relevant choice.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We may use analytics or performance technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website.

These may help us understand information such as:

  • pages visited;
  • approximate visit duration;
  • website performance;
  • navigation patterns;
  • traffic sources; and
  • popular products or pages.

We use this information to help improve the website, products and customer experience.

Where consent is required for analytics technologies, they will not be activated until the appropriate consent has been provided.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

If AvanFoods uses advertising, remarketing or similar technologies, they may be used to:

  • measure the effectiveness of advertising;
  • understand interactions with advertisements;
  • limit how often advertisements are displayed; or
  • help provide more relevant advertising.

Where these technologies require consent, they will only be activated after you have chosen to allow them.

If AvanFoods does not currently use marketing or advertising cookies, this category may not be active on the website.

Third-Party Services

Some features of our website are provided by third-party service providers.

These may include services such as:

  • payment processors;
  • website security providers;
  • analytics services, where enabled;
  • embedded maps;
  • delivery or checkout services; and
  • other services used to operate the website.

For example, an embedded map or payment service may use its own cookies or similar technologies when you interact with that service.

Third-party providers are responsible for their own privacy and cookie practices. We encourage you to review their privacy information where appropriate.

Payment Services

Payments on AvanFoods may be processed through secure third-party payment providers.

These providers may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:

  • fraud prevention;
  • payment authentication;
  • security; and
  • completion of transactions.

AvanFoods does not normally store your complete payment-card details.

Cookie Consent and Preferences

When required, our website provides controls that allow you to make choices about non-essential cookies.

You can change or withdraw your choices where the website provides a cookie preference control.

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

Current ICO guidance requires valid consent to involve a clear and deliberate choice where consent is required; simply continuing to browse a website is not enough.

Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

You can also control cookies through your web browser settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

  • view stored cookies;
  • delete existing cookies;
  • block certain cookies;
  • block all cookies; or
  • receive a warning before cookies are stored.

Please note that blocking some cookies may affect the operation of our website, including shopping basket, checkout, account and payment functions.

How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Different cookies may remain on your device for different periods.

Some cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. Others may remain for a defined period so that preferences or other information can be remembered.

The duration depends on the purpose of the relevant cookie or technology.

Personal Information

Where information collected through cookies or similar technologies constitutes personal data, we handle it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data-protection requirements.

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for further information about how we collect, use and protect personal information.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:

  • our website;
  • the technologies we use;
  • third-party services;
  • legal or regulatory requirements; or
  • our business practices.

The latest version will be published on this page with an updated effective date.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the way AvanFoods uses cookies, please contact us:

AvanFoods
Email: info@avanfoods.co.uk
Website: www.avanfoods.co.uk
Location: Sutton (SM1), United Kingdom

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