Cookie policy

What cookies are

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. Some are needed for a site to function at all. Others exist to watch what you do, across this site or across others. The difference matters, and the law treats the two quite differently.

What this site uses

This site uses cookies that are strictly necessary for it to work and, only if you agree, Google Analytics. The strictly necessary cookies fall into two groups:

First, cookies set by Webflow, who host this website, to serve pages correctly and to protect the site against automated abuse. These are set by our hosting and content delivery providers and are a condition of the site being available at all.

Second, cookies connected with the enquiry form, which allow a submission to be processed and guard against spam.

We have not published a cookie-by-cookie table, because the exact names our hosting providers use change from time to time and a list that goes stale is worse than no list. If you want to know precisely what is set on a given day, write to us and we will tell you.

Analytics, only with your consent

If you click Accept on the banner, we use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, to count visits and see which pages are read, so we can improve the site. It sets cookies whose names begin with _ga, which last up to two years. Google processes this information on our behalf. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not use advertising cookies, social media tracking pixels, or anything that follows you to other websites.

If you click Decline, or simply ignore the banner, Google Analytics does not load and no analytics cookies are set.

Your choices

You can change your mind at any time with the Cookie settings link at the foot of every page. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings; every major browser explains how in its own help pages. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of this site working, including the enquiry form.

If this changes

If we add any other non-essential cookie, we will update this policy and ask for your consent before setting it. We will not add them quietly.

Getting in touch

Questions about this policy, or about anything else we do with your information, can go to whisky@macleanandbruce.com. Our privacy policy explains what we hold and for how long.