Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 26 August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Key Smart Car Keys uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

Key Smart Car Keys is a mobile auto locksmith service providing vehicle key replacement, key programming, vehicle entry and related automotive locksmith services across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and surrounding areas.

We are committed to respecting your privacy and being transparent about how information is collected and used when you visit our website.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help websites:

• Function correctly
• Remember your preferences
• Improve website performance
• Understand how visitors use the website
• Provide certain third-party services
• Measure and improve marketing and advertising activity

Cookies are not normally used to directly identify you by name. However, some cookies or similar technologies may process information that can constitute personal data.

The rules relating to cookies also apply to certain technologies that perform similar functions, including tracking pixels, scripts, tags, local storage and other technologies that store or access information on your device.

2. How We Use Cookies

Key Smart Car Keys may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function properly or to provide a service that you have requested.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• Website security
• Website functionality
• Remembering cookie preferences
• Maintaining essential website functions
• Supporting forms or other features of the website

Where a cookie is strictly necessary for the service you have requested, consent may not be required under applicable UK cookie rules.

3. Analytics Cookies

If analytics services are installed on our website, these cookies may help us understand how visitors use our website.

For example, analytics technologies may provide information about:

• Which pages visitors view
• How visitors navigate the website
• How long visitors spend on different pages
• Whether visitors experience technical problems
• The approximate geographical area from which website traffic originates
• General website traffic and performance

We use this information to help improve our website and make it more useful to customers.

Analytics cookies will only be used where the applicable legal requirements for consent have been satisfied.

4. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

We may use marketing or advertising technologies in the future to help us understand the effectiveness of our advertising or to display relevant advertising.

These technologies could potentially include services provided by third parties, such as advertising, social media or conversion-tracking providers.

Where these technologies are not strictly necessary, we will request your consent before using them, where required by applicable UK law.

You can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies through our cookie consent mechanism.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some features of our website may be provided by third parties.

Depending on the services currently installed on our website, these third parties may set their own cookies or use similar technologies.

Examples may include services used for:

• Website analytics
• Maps or location services
• Embedded content
• Social media features
• Advertising and conversion measurement
• Website security
• Customer communication

Third-party providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

We recommend checking the relevant third party’s privacy information where applicable.

6. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner where non-essential cookies or similar technologies are used.

You can:

• Accept non-essential cookies
• Reject non-essential cookies
• Manage your cookie preferences

Non-essential cookies should not be placed on your device before you have provided the appropriate consent.

Simply continuing to browse the website does not constitute valid consent for non-essential cookies.

You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences where our website provides a cookie management facility.

7. How to Control Cookies Through Your Browser

You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser.

Most browsers allow you to:

• Delete existing cookies
• Block cookies
• Allow only certain cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Delete cookies when you close your browser
• Browse using private or incognito modes

Please be aware that blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how our website functions.

8. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be either:

Session cookies — these normally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies — these remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and the service that sets it.

We aim to ensure that cookies and similar technologies are retained for appropriate periods and are reviewed periodically.

9. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

For example, we may update it if:

• We introduce new website functionality
• We introduce or remove third-party services
• Our use of cookies changes
• Legal or regulatory requirements change
• Guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office changes

The latest version will be published on this page with the date of the most recent update.

10. Your Privacy

Cookies may involve the processing of personal information. Where this occurs, our use of personal information will also be governed by our Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information provided to us through our website and when you contact Key Smart Car Keys.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us.

Key Smart Car Keys

Telephone: 07723 373061

Email: key-smart@outlook.com

Service Area: Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and surrounding areas.