Cookie Policy
COOKIE POLICY
On The Square Auctions Limited trading as On The Square Emporium
Registered in Northern Ireland
Unit A3, Sydenham Business Park, 17 Heron Road, Belfast BT3 9LE
Last Updated: 31st October 2025
INTRODUCTION
At On The Square Emporium, we want to ensure that your visit to our website (the “Website“) is smooth, reliable, and as useful to you as possible. Subject to your consent where required by applicable law, we use cookies and similar technologies (“cookies“) to help us improve the use and functionality of the Website and to better understand how visitors use the Website and the tools and services offered on it.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A “cookie” is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies serve a number of purposes like:
- Letting you navigate between pages efficiently;
- Remembering your preferences, interests, or log-in details;
- Generally improving your experience.
We and some of our partners also use cookies on our Website to measure the effectiveness of advertising on our Website and how visitors use our Website. The use of cookies on the Website allows you to enjoy more seamless visits and more accurately measures your behaviour on the Website.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually prevent accepting cookies by changing your browser settings. Cookies help us give you a better website by letting us monitor what’s working and what isn’t through site traffic analysis.
TYPES OF COOKIES USED ON THE WEBSITE
Necessary Cookies
These are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies, our Website would not work properly, and services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or secure customer accounts, cannot be provided.
You cannot opt out of necessary cookies as they are required for the Website to function.
Performance Cookies
These collect information about how visitors use the Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
We use these cookies to:
- Test different designs and features for our website;
- Monitor how our visitors reach our sites;
- Measure how effective our advertising is.
Functional Cookies
These allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customise.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.
Some of our partners may also use cookies or web beacons (a single-pixel image file) so that you see more relevant advertisements when visiting other websites. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
Social Networking Cookies
These are usually set by the social networking provider and enable you to share content from the Website with your friends through your favourite social networks (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
SPECIFIC COOKIES WE USE
Login and Account Cookies
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices:
- Login cookies last for two days;
- Screen options cookies last for a year;
- If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks;
- If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
HOW TO MANAGE AND DISABLE COOKIES
Changing Your Browser Settings
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored.
Please note: If you do turn cookies off, this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your visitor experience. Our system will automatically issue cookies when you log in to the Website unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies.
By using the Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. If you do not want these cookies on your device, you can change your cookie settings at any time through your web browser settings.
How to Change Cookie Settings in Different Browsers
Here are the locations of the cookie settings for all major web browsers:
- Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options → Privacy tab
- Mozilla Firefox: Tools → Options → Privacy menu
- Safari: Edit → Preferences → Privacy menu
- Chrome: Settings → Content Settings → Privacy → Cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies and site permissions
For detailed instructions on managing cookies in different browsers, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, which provides good simple instructions on how to manage cookies on the different types of web browsers.
Blocking Google Analytics Cookies
To block Google Analytics cookies specifically, you can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” provided by Google. This can be downloaded from the Google Analytics website.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
We recommend you check the websites of these third parties for more information about how they use cookies.
CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, our business operations, or for other reasons.
If we make material changes to the Cookie Policy, we will let you know either by:
- Posting the changed Cookie Policy on the Website; or
- Sending you an email (if we have your email address).
The “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy will always show when it was last revised.
It’s important that you review the changed Cookie Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changed Cookie Policy, then we cannot continue to provide the Website to you, and your only option is to stop accessing the Website and disable cookies in your browser.
CONTACT US
Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Cookie Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to:
On The Square Emporium
Unit A3, Sydenham Business Park
17 Heron Road
Belfast BT3 9LE
Northern Ireland
Email: conor@onthesquareemporium.com
Website: www.onthesquareemporium.com
Last Updated: 31st October 2025
By continuing to use our Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Cookie Policy.