Cookie Policy

1. Overview

This Cookie Policy applies to the MowCompass website, including our Robot Lawn Mower Finder, product-selection tools, guides, comparison pages and other website features.

Cookies and similar technologies can serve different purposes. Some help a website function correctly, while others can remember preferences, measure website usage or support attribution when a visitor follows an affiliate link.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how MowCompass handles personal data.

2. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can store on your browser or device. Cookies can help websites remember information between page views or visits.

Similar technologies may also use browser storage, pixels, tags, scripts or other technical methods to store or access information on a device.

In this policy, we use the term cookies broadly to describe cookies and comparable technologies where appropriate.

3. The types of cookies MowCompass may use

The exact technologies in use may change as MowCompass develops. We group them according to their purpose rather than presenting every technology as if it serves the same function.

4. Essential cookies

Some technologies may be necessary for MowCompass to function correctly or securely. These can include technologies used for security, technical website operation, fraud prevention, load management or remembering privacy and consent choices.

Where applicable law allows a technology to be used because it is strictly necessary to provide the website or a feature you requested, it may be active without optional cookie consent.

We aim to keep essential technologies limited to functions that genuinely require them.

5. Preference technologies

MowCompass may offer settings that can be remembered between visits. These could include interface preferences or other choices that make the website easier to use.

Whether consent is requested for a particular preference technology depends on its purpose and the applicable requirements.

6. Analytics and website improvement

MowCompass may use analytics to understand how the website and our product-selection tools perform.

This may help us answer questions such as:

• which pages are useful to visitors;
• where visitors enter or leave the Robot Lawn Mower Finder;
• which Finder features are used;
• whether technical errors occur;
• how website performance can be improved; and
• how visitors interact with recommendations and outbound links.

Where analytics requires consent under applicable law, the relevant technology will only be enabled after that consent has been provided.

We aim to configure analytics in a proportionate way and avoid collecting information simply because a tool makes it technically possible to do so.

7. Affiliate links and attribution

MowCompass is an affiliate-supported website. Some product links may contain affiliate identifiers that tell a retailer or affiliate network that a visitor arrived from MowCompass.

Clicking an affiliate link does not normally change the price you pay. If you later make a qualifying purchase, MowCompass may receive a commission from the relevant retailer, manufacturer or affiliate network.

The destination website or affiliate network may use cookies or other attribution technologies according to its own policies. The duration of that attribution can vary between affiliate programs.

Our commercial relationships are explained in more detail in the MowCompass Affiliate Disclosure.

8. Third-party services

Some features of MowCompass may depend on external service providers. Depending on which features are active, these can include hosting, security, analytics, consent-management, affiliate, manufacturer or retailer services.

Third-party websites have their own privacy and cookie practices. When you leave MowCompass and visit a retailer, manufacturer or other external website, that organisation becomes responsible for the technologies it uses on its own website.

We will update this policy and our cookie controls as relevant technologies and providers are introduced or materially changed.

9. Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can remain on a device for different periods.

Exact retention periods depend on the purpose and provider. Where a consent-management interface provides detailed information about active cookies, that information should be treated as the current technical inventory for the website.

10. Managing your cookie choices

Where MowCompass asks for consent to optional cookies or similar technologies, you can choose whether to accept them.

Where cookie controls are available on the website, you can use them to review or change your preferences. Withdrawing consent does not require you to stop using the core MowCompass website.

Browser controls

Most modern browsers also allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their privacy or site-data settings.

Blocking all cookies can affect features that rely on essential browser storage, so some parts of websites may not function as intended when browser storage is disabled completely.

11. Changes to this Cookie Policy

MowCompass is still developing, and the technologies used by the website may change as features such as analytics, affiliate partners, retailer integrations and the Robot Lawn Mower Finder evolve.

We may update this Cookie Policy when a relevant service, provider, purpose or legal requirement changes.

The date shown at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last updated.

12. Questions about cookies

If you have questions about the technologies used by MowCompass or how they relate to your privacy, you can contact us through our Contact page.