Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Taylors Joinery use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website Taylors Joinery UK Ltd (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 25th May 2018
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
Contents
- About cookies
- List of cookies used
- Essential cookies
- Non-essential cookies
- Facebook Pixel
- How to accept or reject cookies
- Copyright, credit and logo
About cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
- used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
- strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).
Session and persistent cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
First and third party cookies
Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
List of cookies used
We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:
Name of Cookie: ads/ga-audiences
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: pixel
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: end of browsing session
Purpose: Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behavior across websites.
Name of Cookie: test_cookie
Essential or Non-essential?: non-essential
Type of cookie: Tracking
First or Third party?: first
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: End of browser session
Purpose: Used to track the users journey across the internet.
Name of Cookie: GPS
Essential or Non-essential?: non- essential
Type of cookie: technical
First or Third party?: first
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: end of browsing session
Purpose: Inserted when watching an embedded YouTube video
Name of Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Essential or Non-essential?:
Type of cookie: Technical
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: Persistent
Expiry Time: 8 months
Purpose: YouTube bandwidth Measurement
Name of Cookie: YSC
Essential or Non-essential?:
Type of cookie: Technical
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: Session
Expiry Time: Ejnd of browser session
Purpose: This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video
Name of Cookie: PREF
Essential or Non-essential?: Essential
Type of cookie: Technical
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: Persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: These cookies help track the number of views for a particular video. The pref cookie will track user preferences and serve up related content or adverts within an embedded YouTube video.
Name of Cookie: ads/user-lists/#
Essential or Non-essential?: non-essential
Type of cookie: Marketing
First or Third party?: Third
Session or Persistent?: Session
Expiry Time: End of browsing session
Purpose: Unclassified
Name of Cookie: PHPSESSID
Essential or Non-essential?: Essential
Type of cookie: Functional
First or Third party?: first
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: End of browser session
Purpose: preserves user sessions date across page request
Name of Cookie: _gat
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Analytical
First or Third party?: First party
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: End of browser session
Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate received by users.
Name of Cookie: _ga
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Analytical
First or Third party?: First party
Session or Persistent?: Persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Google Analytics cookie used to generate statistical information on the use of a website through distinguishing its users.
Name of Cookie: _gid
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Analytical
First or Third party?: First party
Session or Persistent?: Session
Expiry Time: End of browser session
Purpose: Google Analytics cookie which registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Name of Cookie: _gd
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Analytical
First or Third party?: First part
Session or Persistent?: Session
Expiry Time: End of browser session
Purpose: Google Analytics cookies used to distinguish users.
Name of Cookie: _gali
Essential or Non-essential?: on-essential
Type of cookie: Analytical
First or Third party?: First party
Session or Persistent?: Session
Expiry Time: End of browser session
Purpose: Google Analytics cookie used to improve the accuracy of Google Analytics by differentiating between multiple links to the same URL on a single page.
Name of Cookie: IDE
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Advertising
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 1 year
Purpose: Used for advertising purposes.
Name of Cookie: ANID
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Advertising
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used for advertising purposes.
Name of Cookie: DSID
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Advertising
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used to link devices together and to coordinate adverts
Name of Cookie: FLC
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Advertising
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used for advertising purposes
Name of Cookie: AID
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Advertising
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used to link devices together and to coordinate adverts
Name of Cookie: TAID
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: Advertising
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used to link devices together and to coordinate adverts
Name of Cookie: __utma
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: tracking
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Name of Cookie: __utmt
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: tracking
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: 10 minutes
Purpose: Used to throttle request rate.
Name of Cookie: __utmb
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: tracking
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 30 minutes
Purpose: Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Name of Cookie: __utmc
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: tracking
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: session
Expiry Time: end of browser session
Purpose: Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
Name of Cookie: __utmz
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: tracking
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 6 months
Purpose: Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Name of Cookie: __utmv
Essential or Non-essential?: Non-essential
Type of cookie: tracking
First or Third party?: third
Session or Persistent?: persistent
Expiry Time: 2 years
Purpose: Used to store visitor-level custom variable data.
Essential cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:
- – The first party session cookie PHPSESSID is used to preserve user sessions date across page request. It expires at the end of a browsing session.
- – We also use the third party (YouTube) cookies: PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, GPS. They are used for technical reasons when a YouTube video is embedded, such as to measure bandwidth and to track your place in a video. YSC and GPS are session cookies and expire at the end of a browsing session. PREF and VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE are persistent cookies and expire 2 years (PREF) or 8 months (VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE) after placement.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
How to opt out of essential cookies
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.
You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
- Functional cookies
- Analytical (or performance) cookies
- Targeting (or advertising) cookies
Functional cookies
These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:
- – The first party session cookie PHPSESSID is used to preserve user sessions date across page request. It expires at the end of a browsing session.
- – We also use the third party (YouTube) cookies: PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, GPS. They are used for technical reasons when a YouTube video is embedded, such as to measure bandwidth and to track your place in a video. YSC and GPS are session cookies and expire at the end of a browsing session. PREF and VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE are persistent cookies and expire 2 years (PREF) or 8 months (VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE) after placement.
How to opt in or out from functional cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing or enhancing the website functionality you have requested
For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of functional cookies, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: www.taylors-joinery.co.uk/p/privacy-policy/
Analytical (or performance) cookies
Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:
We use Google Analytics cookies on our website. Google Analytics cookies help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address)
The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are:_gat, _ga, _gid, _gd#, _gali. These cookies are session AND/OR persistent cookies. These cookies expire after 72 months
The information we collect using analytical cookies is collected on an anonymised basis.
More information
Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
How to opt in or out from analytical cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: www.taylors-joinery.co.uk/p/privacy-policy/
Targeting (or advertising) cookies
Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes. We use the targeting cookies for the following purposes on our website
- – first party session cookie: test_cookie is used to track a user’s journey across the internet.
How to opt in or out from advertising cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: displaying advertisements to you about our products and services For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: www.taylors-joinery.co.uk/p/privacy-policy/
Third party cookies
Third party cookies
Third parties use cookies to analyse your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third party advertisements) to you e.g. advertisement conversion tracking such as Google AdWords]. Third party cookies used in relation to our website include:
- – Google AdWords cookie to track whether you have come to us via an advertisement we have placed on a search engine results page AND/OR elsewhere across the internet, such as another website and to record information relating to how you came to us such as your location when you accessed our website, the time of day you visited and the device you were using. Google may use different cookies to track how you came to our website depending on what advertisement you clicked on and where.
- – Google remarketing cookies to display advertisements to you about our goods and services across the internet, including on other websites you visit. Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google remarketing, click here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en
- – Google cookies to display advertisements on our website. We may use Google AdSense on our website. Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you on our website about third party goods and services based on the websites you have visited and your online behaviour and interests. For more information about Google AdSense, click here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6242051?hl=en
- – We use the third party persistent cookies: NID, IDE, ANID, DSID, FLC, AID, TAID. To advertise and coordinate adverts, as well as to embed google maps into pages (NID). They expire after 2 years (except IDE which expires after a year).
- – We also use the third party persistent cookies: _utmv and _utma which store visitor-level custom variable data (_utmv) and used to distinguish users and browsing sessions (_utma). Both cookies expire after two years.
- – Third party session cookie _utmt is used to throttle request rate. It expires 10 minutes after placement.
- – Third party persistent cookie _utmb is used to update new sessions/visits. It expires after 30 minutes.
- – The third party, session cookie _utmc is used to update new sessions/visits. It expires at the end of the browsing session.
- – The third party session pixel _utm.gif is a google analytics code that logs details about the user and their computer. It expires at the end of the browsing session.
- – Third party session pixel ads/ga-audience is used to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on their online behaviour across the web. It expires at the end of the browsing session.
More information
For information about the cookies Google uses in relation to the above, see the ‘Advertising’ section on the Types of cookies used by Google page in Google’s cookies policy, which is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
For information about how Google uses data from cookies for its own purposes, please visit the following link www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
How to opt in or out from third party cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: the purposes for which we use the third party cookies as described above. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of third party please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: www.taylors-joinery.co.uk/privacy-policy/
How to opt in or out
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest: analysing the effectiveness of our email marketing campaigns.
Facebook Pixel
We may use Facebook Pixel on our website. Facebook Pixel is a tracking code which allows us to track and monitor the success of advertisements we use on Facebook and to improve the effectiveness of those advertisements by recording information such as the device you used to access our website and the actions you took on our website using cookies. We may also use Facebook Pixel to create retargeting advertisements and custom audiences for our advertisements on Facebook and on our website.
Facebook aggregates data gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel on our website with data it gathers from other sources, in order to improve and target advertisements displayed on its website or via its services, to improve its systems and to provide measurement services to third parties which use Facebook’s advertising services. You can find out more about how Facebook handles information they collect about you and other individuals by accessing their privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
How to opt in or out
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest: analysing the effectiveness of our advertisements on Facebook.
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Cookie control tool
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool.
Browser settings
You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
- – Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
- – Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
- – Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
- – Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
Google Adsettings
You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:
- – unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
- – switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).
Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Facebook Pixel
Disconnect for Facebook
You can install a browser add-on tool called ‘Disconnect Facebook pixel and FB tracking’. This will stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. You can install the too here:
- For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect-facebook-pixel/nnkndeagapifodhlebifbgbonbfmlnfm?hl=en
- For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-disconnect/
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool
You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.
Copyright, credit and logo
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on out website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this privacy policy