Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 1st January 2026

At Wine Sanctum, we believe your online experience should be as refined and seamless as the wine collections our products preserve. This Cookie Policy provides detailed information about how and why we use cookies to enhance your visit to our digital boutique.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners. Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users, which helps us to provide you with a bespoke experience.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to elevate your journey on our site. They remember your preferences, tailor content to your tastes, and ensure the seamless functionality of essential features, such as the shopping basket and checkout process. Our use of cookies is designed to be unobtrusive and beneficial, creating a more personal and intuitive browsing experience.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

We classify the cookies used on our website into the following categories:

• Essential (Strictly Necessary) Cookies: These are fundamental to the operation of our website. They enable core functionalities such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these, services you have asked for, like adding items to your basket, cannot be provided.
• Analytics & Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Marketing & Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

4. Third-Party Cookies

We collaborate with a select number of trusted third parties who may also set cookies on your device during your visit to our website. These partners include analytics providers like Google Analytics and advertising platforms. These cookies are used to provide us with insights into our site's performance and to help us deliver curated marketing communications to you. We do not control the settings of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the power to control your digital footprint. Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to delete certain cookies. Please note that if you choose to block essential cookies, it may impair or prevent the proper functioning of the Wine Sanctum website. You can typically find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. For more detailed control, you can also use a cookie consent tool on our website to manage your non-essential cookie preferences.