Cookie Policy

When you return to the site, the browser sends those files back, so the site can recognise your session, remember your preferences or measure how pages are used. Similar technologies - such as local storage, session storage and small tracking pixels - work in comparable ways, and this policy covers them all under the general term “cookies”.

A cookie generally contains the name of the site that set it, a value (often a random identifier) and an expiry date. Cookies cannot read other files on your device and are not programs.

Retail Parity Access tier employs cookies for website security and operation, to retain your preferences, to assess page effectiveness, and - with your permission - to evaluate marketing effectiveness. Essential cookies are automatically deployed upon site access since they are required for site functionality. Remaining cookie types are activated only upon your explicit consent, which you have the right to revoke at any point.

Strictly necessary cookies

These keep the site usable: they maintain your session while you move between pages, balance traffic across servers, protect forms against automated abuse and remember the cookie choices you have already made. They do not build a profile of you and cannot be switched off through our banner, because without them core functions such as signing in would fail.

Preference (functionality) cookies

This category includes cookies that store your chosen preferences - such as your preferred interface language, geographical location, visual presentation settings, or your dismissal of an advisory message. While they enhance your browsing experience, they are optional; declining them will not impair site functionality, though you will be prompted to reenter your preferences with each new session.

Analytics (performance) cookies

These help us count visits, see which pages are read, how long people stay and where errors occur. The reporting is aggregated: it tells us that a page is popular or slow, not who you are. We use the results to fix problems and to improve the structure of the site.

Marketing (advertising) cookies

These record that you arrived from a particular campaign or advertisement, help avoid showing you the same message repeatedly, and measure whether a campaign led to a sign-up. They may be read by advertising partners on other websites. They are only set with your explicit consent.

Session cookies exist only while your browser window is open and are erased automatically when you close it. Persistent cookies remain until their expiry date or until you delete them; on this site their lifetimes range from a few days to roughly two years, depending on the purpose. The exact expiry of an individual cookie can always be inspected in your browser’s storage settings.

We maintain a record of your consent preferences for a defined timeframe to prevent the banner from displaying on subsequent visits; once this timeframe expires, we will request your consent anew.

Certain cookies are deployed by third-party partners operating in our interests, including providers of web traffic analysis, content distribution, security safeguards and ad performance tracking. These partners may access their own cookies on other websites employing their services. We do not manage third-party cookie content; their handling of collected information follows their respective privacy and cookie policies.

Where a third-party cookie is not strictly necessary, it is only placed after you have consented through the cookie banner. If you would like a list of the providers currently in use, contact support and we will provide the up-to-date details.

Through our banner

Use the cookie banner or the cookie settings link on the site to accept or reject the preference, analytics and marketing categories. Rejecting a category stops new cookies of that type from being written; cookies already stored can be cleared through your browser.

Through your browser

All major browsers allow you to view stored cookies, delete them individually or entirely, block cookies from specific sites, block all third-party cookies, or delete everything automatically when the browser closes. You will normally find these controls under a menu named “Settings”, then “Privacy”, “Privacy and security”, “Site permissions” or “Cookies and site data”. Mobile browsers offer the same options in their settings screens, and mobile operating systems provide separate controls for advertising identifiers.

Private browsing

Opening the site in a private or incognito window means most cookies are discarded when you close that window, though this does not prevent them from being set during your visit.

Disabling essential cookies will impair site functionality: you may lose the ability to maintain login status, process form submissions or execute protected transactions. Disabling functional cookies results in preferences like language not being saved. Disabling measurement or promotional cookies does not affect site performance - you simply will not appear in our usage data and promotional analytics.

We assess this policy regularly and make revisions when the cookies utilized, their underlying mechanisms or governing regulations are modified. The latest version is continuously posted here; significant modifications will be communicated via the site or cookie notice, and further access following the change indicates acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have a question about this policy, want details of a specific cookie or wish to exercise a data-protection right, please write to our support team through the contact page. Related documents are listed in the footer of every page, including our Privacy Policy.

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