Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
Last Updated: 19 August 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to Home Furniture Direct.
This Cookie Policy explains how Home Furniture Direct uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website.
Our website is designed to make browsing and shopping for sofas and furniture simple, secure, and convenient.
By using our website, you acknowledge that cookies and similar technologies may be used as described in this policy.
Cookies help us provide essential website functionality and improve your overall shopping experience.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow websites to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit.
They can help websites remember your preferences, shopping cart, and browsing activity.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly.
Other cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.
Certain cookies may also be used to provide relevant advertising and marketing.
3. Why Does Home Furniture Direct Use Cookies?
We use cookies for several important purposes.
Cookies help our website operate correctly.
They allow you to browse our sofa and furniture collections.
They help maintain your shopping cart during your visit.
They support secure checkout and payment processes.
They may remember your selected currency or location.
They help us understand which pages and products are most popular.
They help us improve website performance and functionality.
They may help us provide more relevant offers and advertising.
They can also help us understand how customers interact with our website.
4. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are required for important website functions.
These cookies allow you to move around our website and use core shopping features.
They may be used to maintain your shopping cart.
They may support secure checkout functionality.
They may help prevent fraudulent or unauthorised activity.
Without these cookies, some parts of our website may not function correctly.
Essential cookies generally cannot be disabled through our website because they are necessary for core functionality.
5. Shopping Cart Cookies
Our website may use cookies to remember products that you add to your shopping cart.
These cookies help maintain your cart while you continue browsing.
They can help ensure that products remain associated with your shopping session.
Shopping cart information may be retained for a limited period.
These cookies help make the purchasing process easier and more convenient.
6. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow our website to remember choices you make.
For example, they may remember language, region, currency, or other preferences.
These cookies can help provide a more personalised browsing experience.
They may also support features that you choose to use on our website.
Disabling functional cookies may affect certain website features.
7. Analytics and Performance Cookies
We may use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website.
These cookies can provide information about pages viewed and website usage.
They may help us understand which products and categories receive the most interest.
Analytics information can help us improve our website design and functionality.
We may use analytics services provided by third parties.
These services may collect information about website interactions through cookies or similar technologies.
8. Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to help us understand your interests and browsing behaviour.
They may allow us or our advertising partners to provide more relevant advertisements.
Marketing cookies can help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
They may also help prevent you from repeatedly seeing the same advertisement.
Marketing cookies are generally subject to your consent where required by applicable law.
9. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services that operate on our website.
These third parties may include analytics, advertising, payment, social media, or other service providers.
Third-party cookies are controlled by the relevant third-party provider.
Their use may be subject to their own privacy and cookie policies.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of relevant third-party providers for more information.
10. Shopify Cookies
Our online store is powered by Shopify.
Shopify may place cookies and similar technologies on your device to provide essential store functionality, analytics, security, checkout, and other services.
Examples may include cookies associated with shopping carts, checkout, localisation, analytics, and customer privacy preferences.
The specific cookies used may depend on the features and applications enabled on our store.
Shopify provides information about cookies used on merchant storefronts through its Cookie Policy.
11. How Long Do Cookies Stay?
Some cookies are session cookies.
Session cookies generally remain on your device only while you are browsing our website.
They are normally removed when you close your browser.
Other cookies are persistent cookies.
Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose.
Cookie durations may range from minutes to several months or longer.
12. Managing Cookies
You can control cookies through your browser settings.
Most web browsers allow you to accept, reject, or delete cookies.
You can also adjust your browser settings to notify you when cookies are being used.
Blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
For example, disabling essential cookies may prevent shopping cart or checkout features from working correctly.
You can also manage cookie preferences through any cookie consent tools provided on our website.
13. Your Cookie Choices
Where required by law, we may ask for your consent before placing certain non-essential cookies on your device.
You may choose whether to accept certain categories of cookies.
You can withdraw or change your cookie preferences where the relevant controls are available.
Your choices may affect the way certain website features operate.
Essential cookies may continue to operate because they are required to provide requested services.
14. Privacy and Personal Information
Cookies may sometimes be associated with information that can identify or relate to an individual.
We handle personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection requirements.
We aim to collect only information that is reasonably necessary for legitimate business and website purposes.
We take reasonable steps to protect information collected through our website.
15. Website Security
Certain cookies may help us maintain the security of our website.
They may assist with fraud prevention and detecting suspicious activity.
They can also help protect customer accounts and checkout processes.
Security-related cookies may be necessary for the safe operation of our online store.
16. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
Changes may be made to reflect changes in our website, technology, services, or legal requirements.
When we update this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date shown at the top of this page.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically.
17. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on our website, please contact Home Furniture Direct.
We are happy to help answer questions regarding cookies, privacy, and your online shopping experience.
Home Furniture Direct
Website: Home Furniture Direct
For privacy-related questions, please use the contact details provided on our website.
18. Important Information
This Cookie Policy is intended to explain how cookies may be used on the Home Furniture Direct website.
The exact cookies and third-party technologies used may change depending on the Shopify features, applications, analytics services, advertising tools, and integrations enabled on the store.
Where applicable, cookie consent and privacy controls will be provided in accordance with applicable requirements.
By continuing to use our website after receiving appropriate cookie information, you acknowledge the use of cookies in accordance with your selected preferences and applicable law.
For further information about Shopify's use of cookies on merchant storefronts, please refer to Shopify's Cookie Policy.
