COOKIES POLICY
BILLY'S CAR WASH.
Billy's Car Wash & Vateing
Edinburgh, UK
Mobile Car Valeting Across Edinburgh
These Booking Terms and Conditions apply to all services booked with Billy’s Car Wash. By making a booking, you confirm that you have read, understood and accepted these terms.
Last updated: 23 July 2026
This Cookies Policy explains how Billy’s Car Wash uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit billyscarwash.co.uk.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help websites function correctly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the website and provide relevant advertising.
Similar technologies, including tracking pixels, scripts, tags, local storage and device identifiers, may perform comparable functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where applicable.
2. Who We Are
This website is operated by:
Billy’s Car Wash
Edinburgh, Scotland
Telephone: 07840 891362
Website: billyscarwash.co.uk
References to “we”, “us” and “our” mean Billy’s Car Wash.
3. How We Use Cookies
We may use cookies to:
- Keep the website secure and functioning correctly.
- Operate our booking and contact forms.
- Remember your cookie preferences.
- Understand how visitors use our website.
- Measure website performance and advertising results.
- Improve our services and online experience.
- Display relevant advertising, where you have consented.
Non-essential cookies will only be activated after you provide the required consent through our cookie banner or preference centre.
4. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to operate properly.
They may be used for website security, fraud prevention, booking functionality, form submissions, session management, load balancing and remembering your cookie choices.
Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested, they cannot normally be disabled through our cookie preference centre.
You may be able to block them through your browser, but parts of the website may stop working correctly.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make, such as your preferred settings, location or information entered during a booking process.
These cookies may also support features provided by third parties.
Where legally required, functional cookies will only be used after you provide consent.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
They may collect information such as:
- Pages visited.
- Time spent on the website.
- Links or buttons selected.
- General device and browser information.
- How a visitor reached the website.
- Website errors or performance issues.
We may use services such as Google Analytics or similar analytics platforms. These cookies will only be activated after you provide consent where consent is required.
The information helps us improve website performance, content and usability.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to:
- Measure advertising campaign performance.
- Understand whether an advertisement resulted in a booking or enquiry.
- Display more relevant advertisements.
- Limit how often you see an advertisement.
- Build an audience for future advertising campaigns.
These cookies may be placed by advertising providers such as Google, Meta or other platforms that we use.
Advertising and marketing cookies will not be activated unless you consent to them.
Third-Party Cookies
Some website features may be provided by third parties, including:
- Online booking providers.
- Payment processors.
- Website analytics services.
- Embedded maps.
- Social media platforms.
- Video platforms.
- Spam-prevention and security providers.
- Live chat or WhatsApp services.
These providers may place cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with their services.
Third-party providers control their own cookies and process information according to their respective privacy and cookie policies.
5. Online Booking Cookies
Our website may use cookies to operate the online booking system.
These cookies may be used to:
- Maintain your booking session.
- Remember the service or vehicle type selected.
- Store appointment information temporarily.
- Prevent duplicate or fraudulent bookings.
- Complete payment or deposit processing.
- Connect a booking with the correct customer.
Cookies that are strictly necessary to complete a booking may be used without separate consent. Any analytics or marketing cookies connected with the booking process will only be used where the required consent has been provided.
6. Contact and Newsletter Forms
Cookies may be used when you submit a contact form, request a quotation or join our newsletter.
They may help protect forms from spam, prevent repeated submissions and remember information during the submission process.
Submitting a form does not automatically mean that you have consented to advertising cookies or marketing communications.
Marketing communications will be handled separately in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the preferences you provide.
7. Cookie Duration
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 duration of each cookie depends on its purpose and the provider responsible for it. We aim to retain cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary.
8. Cookies Currently Used
The exact cookies used on our website may change when website features, plugins or third-party services are updated.
Our cookie consent platform or preference centre should provide an up-to-date list containing:
- Cookie name.
- Cookie provider.
- Cookie purpose.
- Cookie category.
- Cookie duration.
- Whether the cookie is a first-party or third-party cookie.
Visitors can access this information by opening the Cookie Settings or Manage Consent option on our website.
9. Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit our website, you may be shown a cookie banner that allows you to:
- Accept all cookies.
- Reject non-essential cookies.
- Select individual cookie categories.
- Review additional cookie information.
Rejecting non-essential cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them.
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required for the website or requested services to function.
10. Changing or Withdrawing Consent
You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the Cookie Settings, Manage Consent or similar link displayed on our website.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
After preferences are changed, you may need to refresh the page for the new settings to take effect.
11. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their settings.
You may be able to:
- Block all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Delete existing cookies.
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored.
- Delete cookies automatically when the browser closes.
The exact process depends on the browser and device you use.
Blocking all cookies may prevent parts of our website, including booking forms and other essential features, from operating correctly.
12. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies
Some cookies may collect information that identifies you directly or indirectly, particularly when combined with other information.
Where cookie information constitutes personal data, we process it in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection legislation.
Depending on the cookie and its purpose, the relevant legal basis may include:
- Your consent.
- Our legitimate interests.
- Performance of a contract.
- Compliance with a legal obligation.
Where consent is legally required, we will not rely solely on legitimate interests as an alternative to obtaining that consent.
13. International Data Transfers
Some third-party cookie providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where this happens, the relevant provider or Billy’s Car Wash will take appropriate steps required by data-protection law to protect the information, such as using an approved transfer mechanism or relying on an applicable adequacy regulation.
Further information may be provided in our Privacy Policy or the privacy policy of the relevant third-party provider.
14. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy when:
- We add or remove website features.
- Our cookie providers change.
- Our legal obligations change.
- We change how information is collected or used.
The latest version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.
We encourage visitors to review this policy periodically.
15. Contact Us
For questions about this Cookies Policy or how cookies are used on our website, contact:
Billy’s Car Wash
Telephone: 07840 891362
Website: billyscarwash.co.uk
You may also contact us through the contact form available on our website.