Cookie Policy
Last updated: 14th November 2025
1. About this policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Food Forensics Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website www.foodforensics.co.uk (our “Site”), in compliance with the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and UK data protection law.
For information about how we use personal data more generally, please see our Privacy Policy.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet or smartphone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, and to provide information to the site owners.
We also use similar technologies such as tags, pixels and local storage. In this policy, we refer to all of these as “cookies”.
3. Types of cookies we use
We use the following types of cookies on our Site:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our Site and Online Services. Without them, services you have asked for cannot be provided. They include, for example, cookies that:
Because these cookies are strictly necessary, they do not require your consent. You can still block them via your browser settings, but our Site may not work properly if you do.
Analytical/performance cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count visitors and to see how they move around our Site. This helps us improve how our Site works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Site and to remember your preferences. This enables us to personalise our content for you (for example, your region or language).
Targeting/marketing cookies
These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our Site and any advertising more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose where permitted.
4. Cookies we use
The specific cookies and similar technologies used on our Site may change from time to time. They will generally fall into the categories described in section 3 of this Policy (strictly necessary, analytical/performance, functionality and, where applicable, targeting/marketing cookies).
When you visit our Site, our cookie banner and/or cookie preferences centre will provide up-to-date information about:
You can use the cookie banner or preferences centre to review this information at any time and to change your consent choices for non-essential cookies.
If we make significant changes to the types of cookies we use or the way we use them, we will update this Policy and (where required) prompt you to review your cookie choices again.
5. Consent for non-essential cookies
When you first visit our Site, we present a cookie banner or pop-up explaining that we use cookies and giving you a choice to:
We will only set non-essential cookies (analytical, functionality and targeting cookies) if you consent to them. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by:
using the cookie settings link or button on our Site (where available); and/or
adjusting your browser settings to refuse some or all cookies.
Simply continuing to browse our Site is not treated as consent.
6. Third-party cookies
Some cookies on our Site may be set by third parties, such as analytics providers or content embedded from other sites.
We do not control these third-party cookies. Please refer to the relevant third party’s privacy or cookie policy for more information about how they use cookies and how you can manage them.
7. Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to:
If you block all cookies, including strictly necessary cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site or use certain features.
For more information about cookies, you can visit independent resources such as www.allaboutcookies.org (we are not responsible for the content of external websites).
8. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example when we change the cookies we use or if the law changes. Any updates will be posted on this page. Please check back regularly to see any changes.
