Cookie Policy

Last updated: 3 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Soché, operated by Le Papillon Boutique Ltd, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with soche.co.uk.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files or similar technologies that are placed on, or accessed from, your device when you visit a website.

Cookies can allow a website to:

Remember information about your visit
Keep products in your shopping basket
Maintain your session
Process transactions
Remember preferences
Improve website functionality
Understand how visitors use the website
Support marketing or advertising activities

The term “cookies” in this policy also includes similar technologies that store information on or access information from your device, such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and other comparable technologies.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for several purposes.

These purposes fall broadly into the following categories:

Strictly necessary cookies
Preference and functionality cookies
Analytics and performance cookies
Marketing and advertising technologies

The precise technologies used on soche.co.uk may change as we update our website, Shopify configuration, applications and services.

3. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website or a service you have specifically requested to function.

They may support functions including:

Shopping basket functionality
Checkout
Payment processing
Customer account functionality
Session management
Authentication
Security
Fraud prevention
Load balancing
Maintaining website functionality
Remembering essential privacy choices

Without these technologies, important parts of the website or checkout may not function correctly.

Where a cookie or similar technology is genuinely necessary to provide a service requested by you, consent may not be required under applicable law.

We will not describe non-essential cookies as strictly necessary simply because they are useful to us.

4. Preference and Functionality Cookies

These technologies may allow the website to remember choices or settings you have made.

For example, they may support:

Language or regional preferences
Website settings
Certain account preferences
Other functionality designed to improve your experience

Where these technologies are not strictly necessary, we will seek consent where required by applicable law.

5. Analytics and Performance Cookies

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

These technologies may provide information such as:

Pages visited
Products viewed
Time spent on pages
Navigation patterns
Referral sources
Device or browser information
Website performance
General usage patterns
Conversion or transaction information

Analytics helps us understand how our website performs and where improvements may be required.

Analytics cookies are not automatically considered strictly necessary.

Where applicable law requires consent, we will obtain consent before placing or using analytics cookies or similar technologies.

The fact that analytics information may be aggregated or pseudonymised does not by itself mean that consent is unnecessary.

6. Marketing and Advertising Technologies

Where used, we may use cookies, pixels, tags or similar technologies to support marketing and advertising activities.

These technologies may allow us or our service providers to:

Measure advertising effectiveness
Understand interactions with marketing campaigns
Measure conversions
Limit repeated advertising
Build or assess audience segments
Deliver more relevant advertising
Understand how users arrive at and interact with our website

Where required by law, we will obtain prior consent before using these technologies.

We will not activate non-essential advertising or tracking technologies merely because you continue browsing the website.

7. Shopify Technologies

Our online store is powered by Shopify.

Shopify uses cookies and similar technologies to support the operation of Shopify-powered stores, including functions associated with:

Storefronts
Shopping baskets
Checkout
Customer accounts
Security
Privacy preferences
Website functionality

Shopify also provides tools for merchants to manage customer privacy and cookie consent.

For visitors in regions where opt-in consent is required, Shopify's automated privacy settings can prevent non-essential data collection until consent has been obtained.

Shopify's technologies may change as Shopify updates its services.

For information about Shopify's own privacy practices, please consult Shopify's applicable privacy documentation.

8. Third-Party Cookies and Technologies

Some cookies or similar technologies may be provided by third parties.

These third parties may include providers supporting:

Analytics
Payment processing
Fraud prevention
Marketing
Advertising
Customer accounts
Website functionality
Embedded content
Other services integrated with our website

Where third-party technologies are used, we will take appropriate steps to identify them and provide the information and consent controls required by applicable law.

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

9. Apps, Pixels and Other Integrations

Our Shopify store may use third-party applications, pixels, scripts or integrations.

These technologies may be introduced through:

Shopify applications
Shopify Pixels
Third-party services
Website integrations
Marketing platforms
Analytics services
Other technical integrations

Where a third-party application or integration places or accesses non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the technology operates consistently with our consent requirements.

Shopify itself notes that manually installed third-party cookies or pixels may require additional consent controls beyond Shopify's own cookie banner.

Because our technology stack may change, the exact list of cookies and third-party technologies may also change.

10. Cookie Consent

Where consent is legally required, we will ask for consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

Consent should involve a clear affirmative action.

For example, you may be given options to:

Accept non-essential cookies
Reject non-essential cookies
Manage individual cookie categories
Change your preferences

Simply continuing to browse the website does not constitute consent where applicable law requires affirmative consent.

The ICO's current guidance states that consent for cookies must be freely given, specific, informed and based on a clear positive action.

11. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Where our website provides a cookie-preference tool, you can use it to:

Accept or reject non-essential cookies
Select individual categories
Review your choices
Change your preferences

Where required by law, we will provide a mechanism that allows you to withdraw or change consent.

Withdrawing consent should be as straightforward as giving it.

Changing your preferences may not delete cookies that have already been placed on your device immediately. Existing cookies may need to expire or be deleted separately.

12. Browser Controls

Most web browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings.

You can generally:

Delete existing cookies
Block certain cookies
Block all cookies
Receive notifications before cookies are stored

However, blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect the operation of the website, shopping basket or checkout.

Browser controls do not necessarily provide the same level of granular control as our website's cookie-preference mechanism.

13. How Long Cookies Remain

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies

These generally remain on your device only while your browsing session is active and are removed when the session ends.

Persistent cookies

These remain on your device for a defined period or until they are deleted.

The retention period varies depending on the purpose of the cookie or technology.

We seek to ensure that cookie durations are appropriate for their intended purpose and do not retain information unnecessarily.

14. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

A first-party cookie is generally set by the website you are visiting.

A third-party cookie is generally set or accessed by a different organisation through the website.

Both types may be used on soche.co.uk where appropriate.

Where third-party cookies or similar technologies are used, the relevant third party may receive information associated with your interaction with our website.

Where consent is required, we will seek that consent before activating the relevant technology.

15. Cookies and Personal Information

Not every cookie identifies an individual.

However, information collected through cookies and similar technologies may sometimes constitute personal information, particularly where it can be linked to an identifiable individual, account, device or other information.

Where cookie-related information constitutes personal information, our processing is also governed by our Privacy Notice.

16. Legal Basis

The rules governing cookies and similar technologies may arise under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) as well as applicable UK data protection legislation.

Where a technology falls within the consent requirements, we will seek consent before using it unless an applicable legal exception applies.

The ICO's guidance confirms that PECR applies not only to traditional cookies but also to other technologies that store or access information on a user's device, including pixels, scripts, local storage and similar technologies.

Where the associated processing involves personal information, additional UK GDPR requirements may apply.

17. Essential Technologies and the Consent Exception

Certain technologies may be used without consent where they fall within an applicable legal exemption.

This may include technologies that are strictly necessary to:

Provide a service specifically requested by you; or
Carry out a communication over an electronic communications network.

For example, a technology necessary to remember items in your shopping basket may fall within the relevant exemption.

We assess technologies based on their actual purpose rather than simply labelling them “essential”.

The ICO specifically recognises functionality such as remembering an online shopping basket and maintaining security as examples of potentially exempt technologies.

18. Analytics Are Not Automatically Essential

Analytics technologies can be valuable to us because they help us understand website usage.

However, usefulness to the business does not by itself make an analytics cookie strictly necessary for the service requested by the user.

Accordingly, where analytics cookies require consent, we will seek consent before using them.

The ICO expressly states that analytics cookies are not covered by the strictly necessary exemption merely because they provide useful information to the website operator.

19. Changes to Our Cookie Technologies

Our website and technology providers may change over time.

For example, we may:

Add a new analytics service
Remove an existing service
Add or remove Shopify applications
Change payment providers
Introduce new functionality
Change marketing technologies
Change our cookie-consent platform

Where a change materially affects the use of non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we will update our consent mechanism and this policy as appropriate.

Where fresh consent is required because the nature or scope of processing has materially changed, we will seek fresh consent.

20. International Processing

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

Where cookie-related personal information is transferred internationally, the transfer will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

Further information about international transfers is provided in our Privacy Notice.

21. Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information collected through cookies and similar technologies.

However, no website or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Where third-party providers are used, we take reasonable steps to select appropriate providers and establish suitable contractual and security arrangements.

22. Your Rights

Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, you may have rights under applicable data protection law.

These may include rights to:

Access your personal information
Correct inaccurate information
Request deletion
Restrict processing
Object to certain processing
Request data portability in applicable circumstances
Withdraw consent where consent is the lawful basis

You can find further information in our Privacy Notice.

23. Contact Us

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

Soché
Le Papillon Boutique Ltd
Email: info@soche.co.uk

24. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:

Changes to our website
Changes to Shopify
Changes to applications or integrations
Changes to analytics or marketing services
Changes to applicable law
Changes to regulatory guidance
Changes to how we use cookies or similar technologies

The “Last updated” date at the beginning of this policy indicates when it was most recently revised.

We recommend checking this page periodically for the latest version.