Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 25 October 2025

Honey & Joy, operated by Oxford Digital Collective Limited (“we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about the technologies we use.

This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear GIFs, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use our website (“the Site”).

This Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. By continuing to use or browse the Site, you agree to our use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described here.

A cookie is a small text file stored on your device when you visit a website. Other tracking technologies work similarly, helping us collect information about your use of the Site and recognise your device. For more information, see All About Cookies and Your Online Choices.

We use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to:

  • Remember your preferences and personalise your experience.
  • Analyse how our Site is used and improve its performance.
  • Protect the Site and secure content.
  • Administer requests, such as newsletter subscriptions or competition entries.

We may also engage third-party service providers to track usage, analyse traffic, and improve user experience. These providers may place persistent Cookies on your device.

First-Party Cookies: Placed by Honey & Joy and used for Site functionality, preferences, and analytics.

Third-Party Cookies: Placed by external partners such as Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, or advertising networks for analytics, advertising, and marketing purposes.

Cookie categories include:

  1. Strictly Necessary / Technical Cookies
    These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognise that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Sites.
  2. Analytical / Performance Cookies
    These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyse how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
  3. Functionality Cookies
    These Cookies let us operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognise your user name and remember how you customised the Sites and services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customisations during future visits.
  4. Third-Party Advertising Cookies
    These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our Sites.
  5. Affiliate Marketing Cookies
    Our website is supported by advertising revenue, and sometimes we receive commissions for adverts that you see and links that you click on. We (and our service providers) use Cookies to us keep track of referrals we’ve made and adverts we’ve shown, these Cookies do not reveal your identity, or your online activities over time and across different websites, or other online behaviours. You’ll find more information about our participation in affiliate marketing programmes on our Affiliate Marketing Disclosure page.

You can refuse or withdraw consent to Cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Please note that blocking some Cookies (including strictly necessary ones) may limit access to parts of the Site or affect functionality.

You can delete previously stored Cookies at any time via your browser. For detailed guidance, see All About Cookies

For information on targeted advertising and user profiles:

Cookies and data collected via tracking technologies are retained only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described, generally no longer than one year.

For questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:

Honey & Joy
Oxford Digital Collective Limited
19 Lynn Close
Oxford OX3 0JH
United Kingdom
Email: hey@honeyandjoy.uk