Cookie Policy

Use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device such as mobile phone, tablets, etc.) when you access our website. We use cookies and other online tracking devices such as action tags, single-pixel gifs on this website to:

• recognise you whenever you visit this website;
• obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests;
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

Some cookies work by collecting and storing some form of personal information about you. For further information on how we use the personal information we collect about you (including information collected through our use of cookies) please see our Privacy Notice.

Consent

Certain cookies we use are strictly necessary for our website to work. For example, when you visit our website for the first time, we present you with a cookie pop-up banner and tool requesting your consent for non-essential cookies. We automatically set essential cookies on your device that are strictly necessary for our website to work. In relation to all other types of cookies we wish to use, you will be invited to consent to our use of them via our cookies pop-up banner. If you do not provide your consent, we will not set these cookies on your device.

If you do not provide your consent, our website will still work but some of the enhanced and personalised features may not.

If you provide your consent in respect of cookies, you will also be providing your consent for us and the relevant third parties that use those cookies to use your personal information in the ways set out in our Privacy Notice.  We will only set or read the relevant cookies for the durations set out in the table below. 

You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the cookie consent management platform to turn off/opt-out of the relevant cookies. The cookie files may remain on your device after you have opted-out of using them.  Please see the ‘How to control and delete cookies section’ of this policy or check your browser’s help pages to find out how to delete these files from your device.

If you withdraw your consent for us to use non-essential cookies, the consent you have given us to use any personal information we collect using those cookies will also be withdrawn. Please see our Privacy Notice for further details.

Description of cookies

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical or performance (statistics) cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Targeting (marketing) cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

Cookies can be ‘first party’ (which are set by us) or ‘third-party’ (which are placed on your device by another company when you use our website). Some third-party cookies are set by third parties that provide a service to us and who act on our behalf and on our instructions.  Our Privacy Notice applies to the personal information collected using these cookies.

The companies who place third-party cookies on the website may also use the personal information for their own business purposes and are, for the purposes of data protection law, ‘controllers’ in their own right.  Whilst we provide a summary of the third-party cookies for these companies in the table below, you should also check the relevant third party’s privacy notice for more information about how these cookies and the personal information they collect are used.

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Necessary

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name	Provider	Purpose
CookieConsent	Cookiebot	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain
rc::a www.econsumeraffairs.com	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
rc::c www.econsumeraffairs.com	Google	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Name	Provider	Purpose
ads/ga-audiences	Google	Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.
_ga	Google	Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
_ga_#	Google	Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google.  Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse the use of our website by you and other visitors. The information generated by the cookie about the use of our website is usually transferred to a server of Google in the United States where it is stored. Please see our Privacy Policy for further information regarding personal information transferred overseas.

HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by deleting cookies using your browser and refreshing any page on our website.

You may wish to visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your device, as well as more general information about cookies.

CHANGES

We may make changes to this Cookie Policy at any time by posting a copy of the revised Cookie Policy on our website. Any changes will take effect 7 days after the date on which we post the modified terms on our website.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about cookies or your privacy when using our website, please use our contact details in the Contact us section of our Privacy Notice.