Cookie Policy
Please read these statements carefully before using our website and services.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Apex Horizons Institute uses cookies and similar technologies on apexhorizons.institute.
Apex Horizons Institute is a trading name of:
The Elysium Project Initiative
Company number: SC855191
5 South Charlotte Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4AN
United Kingdom
Email: Support@ApexHorizons.Institute
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on or accessed from your device when you use a website.
They can perform functions such as remembering that products have been placed in a basket, maintaining a login session, storing website preferences or helping website operators understand how a site is used.
Some cookies expire when the browser session ends. Others remain for a defined period or until removed.
Other technologies, including local storage or similar identifiers, can perform comparable functions. References to cookies in this policy include similar technologies where appropriate.
3. How We Use Cookies
Cookies used through Apex Horizons Institute fall into the following broad categories.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for important website functions.
They may be used for:
- website security;
- maintaining sessions;
- logging into an account;
- remembering shopping-basket contents;
- processing checkout;
- remembering privacy or cookie choices; and
- preventing fraud or misuse.
Because these technologies are necessary to provide functionality requested by the user or operate the service securely, they may not require consent under applicable cookie rules.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember optional settings and preferences that improve your experience.
Where a functional cookie is not strictly necessary, it will be subject to consent where required.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may provide information such as:
- which pages are visited;
- how visitors navigate between pages;
- broad device and browser information;
- how visitors reached the website; and
- whether technical errors occur.
Analytics information is used to understand and improve the website rather than to provide the core shopping service.
Where analytics cookies are non-essential, they will only be activated after the necessary consent has been obtained.
Marketing Cookies
If advertising or marketing technologies are introduced, they may be used to measure campaigns, understand advertising performance or tailor advertising.
Such technologies will not be treated as necessary merely because they are commercially useful.
Where consent is required, marketing cookies will remain disabled unless you choose to enable them.
4. WordPress and WooCommerce
Our website uses WordPress and WooCommerce.
These systems may use strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies to perform functions including:
- maintaining user sessions;
- authenticating logged-in users;
- maintaining shopping baskets;
- remembering cart contents;
- supporting checkout; and
- operating account functionality.
These technologies are necessary for features expressly requested by users of the store.
5. Consent
Non-essential cookies are not activated solely because you visit or continue browsing the website.
Where consent is required, we will ask you to make an affirmative choice.
The ICO states that non-essential cookies should not be placed before consent and that consent must involve a clear positive action rather than simply continued browsing. Information Commissioner’s Office
You should be able to accept or reject optional categories through our cookie controls.
6. Cookie Settings
You can change your cookie preferences using the Cookie Settings control available through the website.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through the consent system because the relevant website functions may depend upon them.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser, although disabling necessary cookies may prevent some features, such as login, basket or checkout, from working correctly.
7. Current Cookie Details
The specific cookies used by the website can change when WordPress, WooCommerce, security systems, analytics services or other website components are updated.
For this reason, the Cookie Settings interface should provide the current cookie list where available, including relevant information about:
- cookie or technology name;
- provider;
- purpose;
- category; and
- duration.
The categories described in this policy explain how those cookies are treated.
8. Third-Party Cookies
Some website functions may be provided through external services.
Depending on the services enabled and your consent choices, those providers may set or access their own cookies or similar technologies.
These may include providers involved in:
- payment processing;
- embedded media;
- analytics;
- website security;
- digital-content services; or
- other integrations.
Where a third-party technology is non-essential and requires consent, it should remain inactive until the appropriate consent has been given.
9. Payment and Checkout Technologies
Payment providers may use cookies or related technologies for payment processing, authentication, security and fraud prevention.
Some of these technologies may be necessary to securely complete a transaction.
Payment providers may also process information under their own privacy policies.
10. Embedded Content
Pages may occasionally contain content supplied by external platforms, such as video, audio or other embedded services.
External content providers may use cookies or collect technical information when their content is loaded.
Where loading such content would involve non-essential tracking requiring consent, we will seek the appropriate consent before activating it.
11. Analytics
Where analytics services are enabled, they are used to understand website performance and visitor interaction.
Analytics cookies that are not strictly necessary will be subject to consent.
Rejecting analytics cookies will not prevent you from browsing the website or purchasing products.
12. Email and Marketing Technologies
Links in marketing emails may contain identifiers that enable basic delivery, unsubscribe or campaign-performance functions.
Where such processing constitutes direct marketing or tracking, it will be handled in accordance with applicable privacy and electronic-communications requirements.
Our Privacy Policy provides further information about email marketing.
13. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow you to:
- view stored cookies;
- delete individual or all cookies;
- block certain cookies;
- block all cookies; or
- configure how websites handle cookies.
Browser controls operate separately from our own cookie-consent system.
Blocking all cookies may cause website functionality to fail, particularly customer accounts, shopping baskets and checkout.
14. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this policy where:
- website functionality changes;
- new services or plugins are introduced;
- cookie usage changes; or
- legal requirements change.
The latest version and revision date will be displayed on this page.
15. Contact
For questions about cookies or privacy:
The Elysium Project Initiative
Trading as Apex Horizons Institute
Company number: SC855191
5 South Charlotte Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4AN
United Kingdom