Cookie Policy
What’s a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using the website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and/or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
Session cookies: These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
Persistent cookies: A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
Necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
Performance/Analytics cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
Targeting/Advertisement cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We can use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
First and third-party cookies: First-part,y cookies are cookies set by our website. Third-party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website, or use Facebook pixels, so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
Cookies we use on this website
We use first and third-party cookies. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| Necessary | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Necessary'. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Performance'. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given their consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Advertisement'. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category 'Analytics'. |
| NID | This cookie is set by google.com to facilitate the use of Google reCAPTCHA on our website. Google reCAPTCHA checks that information entered into our contact forms is done by a human and not automated software. This analysis automatically runs in the background without notification, as soon as a visitor opens the website. reCAPTCHA evaluates information such as visitor IP addresses, time spent on the website, and mouse actions – the data collected is forwarded to Google. For full information on how Google uses information, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB Our grounds for processing this data are that we have a legitimate interest in protecting our website from automated spying or spam. |
| __cfduid | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| Advertisement | |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
| fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| Analytics | |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_17136345_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
How to change your cookies settings
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Cookies” tab in the bottom left corner of your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies – to find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at info@discoverlaser.co.uk
