cookie-policy

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how BAY YOGA uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit bayoga.co.uk.

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and use personal information more generally.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help websites to:

• Work correctly and securely

• Remember your preferences

• Keep you signed in

• Understand how visitors use the website

• Measure website performance

• Improve website content and services

• Deliver or measure advertising, where applicable

Cookies may be placed directly by BAY YOGA (“first-party cookies”) or by another organisation whose services we use (“third-party cookies”).

We may also use similar technologies such as tags, pixels, scripts, local storage and other technologies that store or access information on your device.

2. How we use cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

• To operate and secure our website

• To enable website features and user accounts

• To remember your choices and preferences

• To understand how visitors use our website

• To measure website performance

• To identify and resolve technical problems

• To understand which pages and services are most useful to visitors

• To measure the effectiveness of marketing, where applicable

• To support third-party services used by our website

The cookies and technologies used on our website may change from time to time as we update our website and the services we use.

3. Types of cookies we use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies and similar technologies are required for the website to function properly or securely.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• Website security

• User authentication

• Managing login sessions

• Preventing fraud or misuse

• Remembering privacy or cookie choices

• Maintaining essential website functionality

Because these technologies are necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested, they may not require your consent.

Disabling strictly necessary cookies through your browser may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.

Functional and Preference Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

For example, they may remember:

• Website preferences

• User settings

• Previous selections

• Certain account preferences

Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before placing functional cookies that are not strictly necessary.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

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

These technologies may help us understand information such as:

• Which pages are visited

• How visitors move around the website

• How long visitors spend on pages

• Which devices and browsers are used

• How visitors arrived at the website

• Whether visitors encounter technical problems

This information helps us improve our website, content and services.

Where consent is legally required for analytics technologies, they will only be activated after you have made the appropriate choice.

In some circumstances, UK law permits limited use of storage and access technologies for statistical purposes without consent where the relevant legal conditions are satisfied. Where we rely on such an exception, the information will be used only for permitted statistical purposes and appropriate safeguards will be applied.

4. Google Tag Manager

Our website uses Google Tag Manager.

Google Tag Manager is a technology that allows us to manage website tags and scripts from one central system.

Google Tag Manager itself is primarily used to manage other technologies. Depending on how our website is configured, tags managed through Google Tag Manager may include analytics, performance or marketing technologies.

Where a tag or service requires consent, it should not be activated until you have provided the required consent through our cookie controls.

Google and services deployed through Google Tag Manager may process technical information such as:

• IP address

• Device information

• Browser information

• Website interactions

• Referring website

• Pages visited

The exact information processed depends on which Google or third-party services are active on the website.

5. Analytics services

We may use Google or other analytics services to help us understand how our website is being used.

Analytics services can help us measure:

• Visitor numbers

• Popular pages

• Visitor journeys

• Website performance

• Traffic sources

• General usage patterns

Where analytics technologies require consent, they will only be activated after you accept the relevant category through our cookie consent controls.

We periodically review the analytics services used on our website.

6. Marketing and advertising technologies

We may use marketing or advertising technologies from time to time to understand the effectiveness of our promotional activities.

These technologies may be used to:

• Measure advertising campaigns

• Understand whether someone visited our website after seeing an advertisement

• Measure conversions

• Understand interactions with promotional content

• Deliver more relevant advertising where applicable

Marketing and advertising cookies will not be treated as strictly necessary.

Where consent is required, these technologies will only be activated after you have chosen to accept them.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

7. WellnessLiving

BAY YOGA uses WellnessLiving in connection with services such as:

• Class bookings

• Memberships

• Customer accounts

• Purchases

• Passes

• Events and other bookings

When you follow a link from bayoga.co.uk to WellnessLiving, you are accessing a third-party service.

WellnessLiving may use its own cookies and similar technologies in accordance with its own privacy and cookie practices.

Those cookies are controlled by WellnessLiving rather than BAY YOGA when you are using its website or service.

If WellnessLiving functionality is embedded directly within a BAY YOGA webpage, third-party technologies associated with that functionality may also be used.

We recommend reviewing WellnessLiving’s own privacy information when using its services.

8. Social media and external services

Our website may contain links to or content from third-party services such as:

• Facebook

• Instagram

• App stores

• Other social media or external websites

Simply following an external link will usually take you away from bayoga.co.uk, after which the third-party website’s own cookie and privacy practices apply.

Where third-party content is embedded directly into our website, such as videos, maps, social media content or widgets, the third party may use cookies or similar technologies.

Where required, these technologies will be blocked until you provide the appropriate consent.

9. First-party and third-party cookies

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are placed by bayoga.co.uk.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• Website operation

• Security

• Login functionality

• User preferences

• Cookie consent preferences

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are placed or controlled by another organisation whose services are used on our website.

These may include providers of:

• Analytics services

• Booking services

• Website functionality

• Marketing technologies

• Embedded content

Third-party providers determine certain aspects of how their cookies and technologies operate.

10. Session and persistent cookies

Cookies may also be classified according to how long they remain on your device.

Session cookies

Session cookies are temporary and normally expire when you close your browser.

They may be used to maintain a website session while you move between pages.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

They may be used to remember choices, preferences or other information between visits.

The duration of individual cookies depends on the particular technology and service being used.

11. Cookie categories

Our website may use technologies falling within the following categories:

The specific technologies in each category may change as our website and service providers change.

12. Your cookie choices

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with cookie controls allowing you to make choices about optional cookies and similar technologies.

Where applicable, you should be able to:

• Accept optional cookies

• Reject optional cookies

• Choose individual categories

• Change your preferences later

Strictly necessary technologies may remain active because they are required for the website or service to function.

We will respect your choices in accordance with applicable law.

13. Changing or withdrawing your consent

Where we rely on your consent, you can change or withdraw that consent at any time.

You can do this using the Cookie Settings or similar cookie-preference control available on our website.

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

Changing your preferences may affect certain optional features of the website.

14. Managing cookies through your browser

Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View stored cookies

• Delete individual cookies

• Delete all cookies

• Block cookies

• Block third-party cookies

• Receive notifications when cookies are being set

Please note that blocking all cookies may prevent parts of bayoga.co.uk and other websites from working correctly.

Instructions for controlling cookies can normally be found in your browser’s privacy or security settings.

15. Do Not Track and browser privacy features

Some browsers and devices provide additional privacy settings or signals.

The availability and operation of these features varies between browsers and services.

We will continue to review relevant legal and technical developments relating to browser-based privacy preferences.

16. Personal information collected through cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal information.

Depending on the technology, this may include information such as:

• IP address

• Device identifiers

• Browser information

• Website activity

• General location

• Referring website

• Cookie identifiers

• Interaction data

Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, our processing of that information is also subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection law.

17. International data transfers

Some of the third-party technology providers we use may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by UK data protection law.

Further information about international transfers is available in our Privacy Policy and the privacy documentation of the relevant third-party provider.

18. How long cookies remain on your device

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and the organisation that provides it.

Some cookies expire when you close your browser.

Others may remain for a defined period unless you delete them sooner.

We periodically review the cookies and similar technologies used by our website and their retention periods.

Where third parties control cookies, their retention periods are determined by the relevant provider.

19. Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

• We introduce new website functionality

• We add or remove third-party services

• Our use of analytics or marketing technologies changes

• Applicable laws or regulatory guidance changes

• We change how cookies or similar technologies are used

The date at the top of this policy indicates when it was most recently updated.

We recommend reviewing this page periodically.

20. Contact us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies and similar technologies, please contact us:

BAY YOGA Limited
207–209 Norman House
High Street
Berkhamsted
HP4 1AD
United Kingdom

Email: info@bayoga.co.uk
Telephone: 07557 968032
Website: bayoga.co.uk

For more information about how BAY YOGA handles personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.