Last updated: 15 October 2026. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how Slinic uses them on this website, and how you can manage your preferences.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to improve your experience, and to provide information to the site owner. Similar technologies such as local storage and pixels work in comparable ways, and references to “cookies” in this policy include these technologies.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies to keep our website secure and working correctly, to remember your preferences (such as your acceptance of our cookie notice and the contents of your basket), to understand how our website is used so we can improve it, and — where you have consented — to help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing.
3. The types of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function, for example to keep you signed in, to remember items in your basket, and to keep your session secure. They cannot be switched off in our systems.
Functional cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as your cookie preferences, to provide a more personalised experience.
Performance and analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve how it works. They give your browser a random visitor ID (Microsoft Clarity, for example, uses one to join up the pages of a visit), but we don’t use them to identify you. They are only used if you allow them.
Marketing cookies
Where you have given consent, these cookies help us and our partners measure and improve the relevance of our advertising. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
4. The cookies we use
This is the full list of cookies our website can set, grouped by type. Analytics and marketing cookies are only set if you allow them.
Essential cookies
Always on: the site needs these to work.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
signal_consent | This site | Remembers your cookie choices | 6 months |
wp_woocommerce_session_* | This site (WooCommerce) | Keeps your basket and order together while you use the site | 2 days |
woocommerce_items_in_cart | This site (WooCommerce) | Tells the site your basket has something in it | Session |
woocommerce_cart_hash | This site (WooCommerce) | Keeps your basket up to date | Session |
wp-postpass_slinic_nocache | This site | Makes sure pages with your order are never served from a shared cache | 2 days |
wordpress_logged_in_* | This site (WordPress) | Keeps you signed in to your account | Session, or 14 days with "Remember me" |
wordpress_sec_* | This site (WordPress) | Secures your signed-in session | Session, or 14 days with "Remember me" |
wordpress_test_cookie | This site (WordPress) | Checks your browser accepts cookies when you sign in | Session |
wp-settings-* | This site (WordPress) | Staff only: remembers admin screen settings | 1 year |
__cf_bm | Cloudflare (our hosting) | Protects the site from automated bots | 30 minutes |
Analytics cookies
Only used if you allow analytics cookies.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Tells visits apart so we can count visitors | 2 years |
_ga_* | Google Analytics | Keeps track of your visit | 2 years |
_clck | Microsoft Clarity | Remembers a visitor ID for Clarity | 1 year |
_clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Joins up the pages of one visit | 1 day |
CLID | Microsoft Clarity (clarity.ms) | Records when Clarity first saw this browser | 1 year |
MUID | Microsoft (clarity.ms, bing.com) | Identifies a browser across Microsoft services | 1 year |
ANONCHK | Microsoft Clarity (clarity.ms) | Checks whether the Microsoft browser ID can be passed on | 10 minutes |
MR | Microsoft (clarity.ms, bing.com) | Tells Microsoft whether to refresh its browser ID | 7 days |
SM | Microsoft Clarity (clarity.ms) | Keeps the Microsoft browser ID in step across Microsoft sites | Session |
SRM_B | Microsoft (bing.com) | A Microsoft browser ID used by Clarity | 13 months |
Marketing cookies
Only used if you allow marketing cookies.
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au | Google Ads | Measures ad clicks that lead to a visit | 90 days |
_uetsid | Microsoft Advertising | Measures ad clicks within a visit | 1 day |
_uetvid | Microsoft Advertising | Measures ad clicks across visits | 13 months |
_fbp | Meta (Facebook and Instagram) | Tells visits apart so Meta can measure which ads lead to an order | 90 days |
_fbc | Meta (Facebook and Instagram) | Records the Facebook or Instagram ad you clicked to get here | 90 days |
sbjs_* | This site (WooCommerce order attribution) | Records which ad or link brought you here, saved with your order | Up to 30 minutes after your last page |
5. Managing your cookies
When you first visit our website, we ask whether you are happy for us to use analytics and marketing cookies, with equally clear options to accept or reject them. Nothing other than strictly necessary cookies is used until you choose.
You can change your mind at any time using the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page, or change your cookie settings here. If you withdraw your consent, we delete the cookies you had allowed.
We never use analytics or advertising cookies on the pages where you complete your eligibility assessment, view your basket, place or pay for an order, see your order confirmation, upload identification, or manage your account.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.
6. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Any updates will be published on this page.
7. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at hello@slinic.co.uk or on 01282 943486. For more information about how we handle your personal data, see our Privacy Policy.
This page provides general information only and does not constitute legal advice.