Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy of The Very Good Food Company Inc. and its brands The Very Good Butchers Inc. and The Very Good Cheese Co. The Cookie Policy was last updated on 4 August, 2021.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

1. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

2. Why do we use cookies?

Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

3. What types of cookies do we use?

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Advertising or targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
• Third party cookies. These cookies exist on our website but they originate from different domains. For example, we might encourage you to share your user experience on your social networks so we add buttons to allow you to easily share with those networks. When we include these social ‘plugins’, it gives those sites the flexibility to use cookies. Please note that when we use third party cookies, the social networks cannot read any cookies we set from our website, and we can’t read any cookies they set.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

• Facebook
• Google Analytics
• Google Adsense
• Shopify
• Pinterest
• Bing Ads

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies [include link to consent management solution].

4. How you can block cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

5. How long will cookies last?

Certain cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our website, while other cookies will remain on your device for a longer period or until you manually delete them (how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific cookie, as well as your browser settings

6. Questions?

If you have further questions or complaints about our website or about this Cookie policy, you can also contact hello@verygoodbutchers.com.