Last updated: 2 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Race Canvas Co. uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit theracecanvasco.com.
1. About us
The Race Canvas Co. is operated by:
Rob Harris, sole trader
Broadhurst Drive
Ashford
Kent
TN24 9RQ
Email: rob@theracecanvasco.com
2. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies may be used to:
- Make the website function correctly
- Remember your basket and checkout information
- Keep the website secure
- Remember your preferences
- Process payments
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure advertising or marketing performance
Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags and scripts.
3. The types of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website and online shop to function.
They may be used to:
- Maintain your shopping basket
- Remember the products and variations you select
- Process checkout
- Keep your session secure
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Remember your cookie-consent preferences
- Support customer image uploads and artwork previews
These cookies cannot normally be switched off through our cookie banner because the service you requested may not work without them.
WooCommerce uses cookies to support features such as baskets, customer sessions and account functions. The exact cookies used depend on which WooCommerce features are enabled. (WooCommerce)
Payment and fraud-prevention cookies
We use Stripe to process payments.
Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Process payments
- Authenticate customers
- Detect and prevent fraud
- Protect its services
- Support features such as Stripe Link
- Understand interactions with its payment forms
Stripe states that its payment tools may use cookies, device information and IP addresses for payment processing, authentication and fraud prevention. (Stripe)
Some Stripe technologies may be considered necessary to securely provide the payment service.
Preference cookies
Preference cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as:
- Cookie settings
- Display preferences
- Previously selected options
- Language or regional preferences, where available
These cookies improve convenience but may not be essential to the website’s basic operation.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how people use the website.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Links and buttons used
- Approximate location
- Browser and device type
- How visitors arrived at the website
- Whether errors occurred
We will only use non-essential analytics cookies after obtaining the required consent.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to:
- Measure advertising performance
- Understand whether an advert led to a visit or purchase
- Limit how often adverts appear
- Build audiences for relevant advertising
- Display personalised advertising on other websites
We will only use marketing cookies after you consent, where consent is required.
4. Cookies that may be used on our website
The precise cookies may change as our website, plugins and services change.
Common cookies may include:
| Cookie or category | Provider | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
woocommerce_cart_hash | WooCommerce | Detects changes to the shopping basket | Session |
woocommerce_items_in_cart | WooCommerce | Remembers whether the basket contains items | Session |
wp_woocommerce_session_* | WooCommerce | Links a visitor to their shopping session and basket | Usually two days |
wordpress_logged_in_* | WordPress | Keeps registered users signed in | Session or according to login choice |
wordpress_sec_* | WordPress | Supports login and website security | Session |
| Cookie-consent cookies | Cookie banner provider | Records whether cookies were accepted, rejected or customised | Varies |
| Stripe payment cookies | Stripe | Payment processing, authentication and fraud prevention | Session or persistent |
| Analytics cookies | Analytics provider, where enabled | Measures website use and performance | Varies |
| Advertising cookies | Advertising platforms, where enabled | Measures and personalises advertising | Varies |
WooCommerce notes that the cookies active on a store depend on the features enabled, so this list should be checked against a cookie scan after your plugins and tracking tools are fully configured. (WooCommerce)
5. Artwork-preview technology
Our website allows customers to upload race photographs and generate artwork previews.
The preview feature may use:
- Browser storage
- Session identifiers
- Security tokens
- Abuse-prevention identifiers
- Temporary upload information
These technologies help us:
- Connect the generated preview to the correct browser session
- Prevent excessive free preview generation
- Secure uploads
- Save the selected preview with an order
Uploaded photographs and generated images are covered in more detail in our Privacy Policy.
OpenAI processes the uploaded image through its API to create the preview. The OpenAI service is contacted by our website server rather than through a customer-facing OpenAI cookie embedded in the page. OpenAI states that API and business data is not used to train its models by default. (OpenAI)
6. Consent
We do not need consent for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service you requested, such as maintaining a basket or securely completing checkout.
Where consent is legally required, we will ask before setting non-essential cookies.
Valid consent must be freely given, specific, informed and indicated through a clear positive action. Simply continuing to browse does not by itself amount to valid consent. (ICO)
Our cookie banner should allow you to:
- Accept non-essential cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Choose individual cookie categories
- Change or withdraw your choices later
The ICO states that visitors must be told that cookies are used and what they do, and that agreement is required where cookies are not strictly necessary. (ICO)
7. Changing your cookie choices
You can change your choices using the Cookie Settings link displayed on our website.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. However, blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the website from working, including:
- The basket
- Checkout
- Payment processing
- Customer accounts
- Image uploads
- Artwork-preview generation
Browser controls vary, so refer to your browser’s help or privacy settings for instructions.
8. Third-party services
Some cookies and similar technologies are set or controlled by third parties whose services we use.
These may include:
- Stripe
- WooCommerce
- WordPress
- Website-security providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising platforms
- Cookie-consent providers
Those organisations may process information under their own privacy and cookie policies.
We do not control the lifespan or detailed operation of every third-party cookie.
9. Cookie retention
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies.
Others remain for a set period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.
How long a cookie remains depends on:
- Its purpose
- The provider that sets it
- Your browser settings
- Whether you withdraw consent or clear cookies
Cookie-consent choices may be stored for a reasonable period so the website remembers your decision. The ICO recognises that cookies used to remember consent preferences may qualify as necessary where suitable information is provided. (ICO)
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- We install or remove plugins
- We introduce analytics or advertising
- Our payment services change
- Cookie laws or guidance change
- The cookies detected on the website change
The latest version will appear on this page with an updated date.
11. Contact us
Questions about this Cookie Policy can be sent to:
The Race Canvas Co.
Broadhurst Drive
Ashford
Kent
TN24 9RQ
Email: rob@theracecanvasco.com