Last updated: 31 August 2026
At Stoney Nook, we respect your privacy and want you to feel confident about how our website uses cookies and similar technologies.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and other storage and access technologies are, why they may be used on our website, and the choices available to you.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect, use, store and protect personal information.
Our website is:
www.stoneynook.co.uk
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites can place on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device when you visit them.
Cookies can perform a number of useful functions. For example, they can help a website operate securely, remember choices you have made, understand how visitors use a website, or enable content provided by another service.
Some cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. These are commonly called session cookies.
Others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them. These are commonly called persistent cookies.
Cookies may also be:
• First-party cookies – set by Stoney Nook or the platform operating our website; or
• Third-party cookies – set by another organisation whose services or content are used on our website.
2. Cookies and similar technologies
The rules governing cookies can also apply to other technologies that store information on, or access information from, your device.
Depending on the services operating on our website, these may include technologies such as:
• cookies;
• local or web storage;
• scripts and tags;
• tracking pixels;
• embedded content; and
• other similar storage and access technologies.
For simplicity, we generally refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies” in this policy.
3. How we use cookies
Stoney Nook only intends to use cookies where there is a legitimate reason to do so. The cookies used on our website may fall into the following categories. A. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website or a service you have requested to function properly.
They may, for example, be used to:
• maintain the security and integrity of the website;
• remember your cookie and privacy choices;
• enable essential website functions;
• support forms or booking processes;
• maintain information required during a booking or enquiry process; or • deliver a service specifically requested by you.
Where the law permits these cookies to be used without consent, they may operate automatically.
You cannot normally disable strictly necessary cookies through our cookie consent tool because doing so may prevent parts of the website from working correctly. You can still block them through your browser, although this may affect website functionality.
B. Analytics and measurement cookies
These technologies may help us understand how visitors use the Stoney Nook website. For example, they may help us understand:
• which pages are visited;
• how visitors navigate through the website;
• how visitors arrived at the website;
• whether pages are working properly;
• general website performance; and
• how we can improve the experience we provide.
Where consent is legally required for analytics or measurement technologies, they will not be activated until you have given that consent.
Where a particular analytics or measurement technology falls within a statutory exemption from consent, we will only rely on that exemption where all applicable legal requirements are satisfied.
C. Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies help provide enhanced or personalised features.
They may remember choices or preferences you make and can support additional website features.
Where these technologies require consent, they will not be activated until you have chosen to allow them.
D. Third-party and embedded-content technologies
Our website may use services or content supplied by third parties. For example, this could include:
• booking or availability services;
• maps;
• video or other embedded media;
• website security services;
• website hosting or content-delivery services; and
• other external services used to provide website functionality.
Some of these providers may store information on or access information from your device.
Where this requires consent, the relevant technology will not be activated before you consent.
We will provide information about relevant third parties through our cookie consent mechanism and/or cookie information made available on the website.
E. Advertising and marketing technologies
If Stoney Nook uses advertising, remarketing or similar tracking technologies now or in the future, we will obtain consent before activating them where consent is required by law.
We will not treat simply visiting or continuing to browse our website as consent to advertising or marketing tracking.
4. What cookies are currently used?
The specific cookies and other storage and access technologies operating on our website may change from time to time as the website and the services we use develop.
Our cookie consent tool should provide an up-to-date list of the relevant technologies detected and/or configured on the website, including, where applicable:
• the cookie or technology name;
• the provider;
• its purpose;
• its category;
• whether it is first-party or third-party; and
• its duration or expiry period.
We periodically review the technologies used on our website and will update the information provided where necessary.
5. Your consent and choices
When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent mechanism.
Where consent is required, you should be given a genuine choice about whether non essential cookies are used.
Depending upon the cookies operating on the site, the available choices may include: Accept all – allowing all cookie categories for which your consent is requested.
Reject non-essential cookies – allowing only technologies that can lawfully operate without your consent.
Manage preferences – allowing you to choose which optional categories you wish to permit.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main content of the Stoney Nook website, although certain optional features provided by third parties may not function.
6. Withdrawing or changing your consent
You can change your mind about optional cookies.
Where our website provides a Cookie Settings, Manage Cookies or similar control, you can use it to review or change your choices.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn.
You may also be able to delete existing cookies using your browser settings.
7. Browser controls
Most web browsers allow you to view, manage, delete or block cookies. The precise method depends upon the browser and device you use.
Please be aware that blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary cookies, may affect the operation of our website or prevent certain features from working correctly.
8. Personal information and cookies
Some information collected through cookies or similar technologies may constitute personal data.
Where this happens, we process that information in accordance with applicable UK data protection law and our Privacy Policy.
Where consent is the appropriate lawful basis, you may withdraw that consent.
9. Third-party websites
The Stoney Nook website may contain links to websites operated by other organisations.
Once you follow a link to another website, its own privacy and cookie practices will apply.
Stoney Nook does not control the cookies placed directly by independent third-party websites that you choose to visit, and we encourage you to read their privacy and cookie information.
10. How long are cookies kept?
Cookies should only remain on your device for as long as is appropriate for their purpose.
Session cookies will generally expire when your browsing session ends. Persistent cookies may remain for a defined period.
The duration of individual cookies should be shown, where applicable, within the cookie information or consent tool available on our website.
We periodically review the duration of cookies and similar technologies to ensure that they are not retained for longer than is appropriate.
11. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
• our website changes;
• the cookies or technologies we use change;
• our service providers change; or
• applicable laws, regulations or regulatory guidance change.
The latest version will always be published on this website and the “Last updated” date at the top of this policy will be amended accordingly.
12. Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or how Stoney Nook handles your information, please contact us using the contact details provided on our website.
Stoney Nook
Website: www.stoneynook.co.uk
Please see our Privacy Policy for further information about how we protect personal information and how you can exercise your data protection rights.