Cookies
Cookies are small text files which are placed on your computer when you access a website – amongst other things; they help the website user to navigate efficiently between pages and the website operator to track usage of the site.
Cookies cannot contain viruses or anything else that might harm your computer. You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Why are cookies used?
Cookies may be used for many different purposes. In the first place, cookies can be required to make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in or visited the website before. These are called required cookies.
Cookies can also be used to analyse how a website is used, to count the number of visitors, to learn how the website may be improved. All tracking data and website usage are stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to individual website visitors. These cookies are called analytics cookies.
Thirdly, social media cookies are used to enable the integration of social media & your data with the platform in question into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page without having to reauthenticate your profile.
A fourth important use of cookies is to enable online advertising, which may be personalized to show ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. This is done by (targeted) advertising cookies.
What do we use cookies for?
We use cookies to track your activities on our website and to analyse trends and improve our site for our customers. Our cookies will not allow us to obtain information of a personal nature such as your name and address.
This website does not use any social media cookies or advertising cookies.
Unless you have set your browser to block cookies completely, this website will utilise the following cookies on your computer.
| Cookie | Name | Type | Purpose | Expiry date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consent Cookie | CookieControl | Strictly necessary cookies | This cookie is used to remember that consent has been given to set cookies. No personally identifiable information is held by this cookie. | 90 days from set/update |
| Google Analytics (GA) Cookies | _ga | Analytics/Performance cookies | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. | 2 years |
| Google Analytics (GA) Cookies | _gid | Analytics/Performance cookies | 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 website is doing. | 24 hours |
| Google Analytics (GA) Cookies | _gat | Analytics/Performance cookies | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute |
Opt in?
We rely on the basis of explicit consent for our use of cookies. You have the option to refuse to accept analytics cookies each time you visit our website. This rejection only disables tracking of website use & behaviour and has no impact on the performance of the website.
Modern web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Visibility
There are some elements of data visible to us as part of your use of the website. The information we have visibility of regardless of your acceptance of analytics cookies is:
- The internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider.
- The type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, UNIX, macOS etc) that you use
- The device you use, such as a mobile phone or tablet
- The date and time of your visit
- The page(s) you visit
- The address of the website from which you linked to us, known as a referrer (if applicable)
We only use this information above to review website & server performance.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to websites run by other organisations. This cookie policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices or use of cookies of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.
More questions?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at: [email protected]
For more information about the use of personal data within Inchcape plc, please visit our Privacy Policy or contact us at:
- Email: [email protected]
- Post: Group Legal Counsel, Inchcape plc, 22a St James’s Square, London, SWY1 5LP
Changes to this cookie notice
We keep our cookie notice under regular review. This was last updated December 2021.