1. Who we are
Bharat Dukaan is a UK-based local business supplying authentic Indian products, including mangoes, flours, spices, rice, juices, jams, pickles, snacks and related grocery products in and around Cambridgeshire.
| Business / trading name | Bharat Dukaan |
| Legal name | Vrushali Khare |
| contact@bharatdukaan.co.uk | |
| Phone | +44 7880 323684 |
| Website | bharatdukaan.co.uk |
| Business / contact address | CB241EL |
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help a website work properly, remember items in your basket, keep you logged in, improve security, understand website usage, or support marketing and advertising.
Some cookies are placed directly by our website. These are called first-party cookies. Others may be placed by third-party services, such as analytics, payment, map, video, social media or advertising providers. These are called third-party cookies.
3. How we use cookies
- To make the website work correctly.
- To support shopping basket and checkout functions.
- To allow customer account login.
- To keep the website secure.
- To remember your cookie preferences.
- To understand how visitors use the website.
- To improve the website and customer experience.
- To support marketing, where you have given consent.
4. Types of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website to work. They support essential functions such as page navigation, shopping basket, checkout, customer account login, payment processing, security and fraud prevention.
You cannot switch off strictly necessary cookies through our website cookie settings because the website may not work properly without them.
For example, if our website uses WooCommerce, some cookies may help remember basket contents and checkout information.
Functional cookies
These cookies help improve your experience by remembering choices you make, such as preferences, form details or display settings.
If these cookies are disabled, some parts of the website may not remember your preferences.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited, how long visitors stay, and whether there are errors or usability issues.
We use this information to improve the website, products and customer experience. Analytics cookies are only used where required consent has been given.
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to show relevant adverts, measure advertising performance, understand customer interest, or support social media and promotional activity.
These cookies may be placed by third-party services such as advertising platforms or social media providers. Marketing cookies are only used where required consent has been given.
5. Cookies that may be used on our website
The exact cookies used may change depending on website features, plugins and third-party services enabled. The website team should review and complete the table below after running a cookie scan.
| Cookie / service | Type | Purpose | Duration |
| WooCommerce cart cookies | Strictly necessary | Helps manage basket and checkout functions. | Session / short-term |
| WooCommerce customer session cookie | Strictly necessary | Helps remember cart data for each customer. | Usually short-term |
| WordPress login cookies | Strictly necessary | Helps registered users log in and stay logged in. | Session / limited period |
| WordPress test cookie | Strictly necessary | Checks whether cookies are enabled in the browser. | Session |
| Cookie consent preference cookie | Strictly necessary | Remembers your cookie choices. | 1 year |
| Google Analytics or other analytics tool, if used | Analytics | Helps understand website traffic and usage. | 1 year |
| Meta Pixel or other advertising tool, if used | Marketing | Helps measure or personalise advertising. | 1 year |
| Google Maps or embedded content, if used | Functional / marketing | Supports embedded third-party content. | 1 year |
| WhatsApp or social media widget, if used | Functional / marketing | Supports messaging or social media interaction. | 1 year |
6. Third-party cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services used on our website. These may include payment providers, analytics services, advertising platforms, social media tools, embedded maps, videos or messaging services.
We do not control all third-party cookies. Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookie and privacy practices.
Where required, we will ask for your consent before third-party analytics or marketing cookies are placed on your device.
7. Managing your cookie choices
When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner or cookie settings panel.
- Accept all cookies.
- Reject non-essential cookies.
- Manage cookie preferences.
- Change your preferences later.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block, delete or manage cookies. However, if you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of the website may not work properly, including basket, checkout or account login.
8. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, cookies, plugins, legal requirements or business practices.
The latest version will always be available on our website.