Cookie Policy
Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which
we, Dorset Stove Installations, use cookies and similar technologies on or in
relation to our website, https://dorsetstoveinstallations.co.uk (our website).
This Cookies Policy is effective from 01st June 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 How to accept or reject cookies Copyright
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.
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: first party session cookie which is used to preserve a user’s state
across page requests. This cookie is PHPSESSID and expires at the end of the
browser session. 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: a first party
Google Analytics session cookie used to regulate the number of requests
Google’s servers receive from users. This cookie is called _gat. first and
third party session and persistent cookies to provide our live chat service and
related functionality. These cookies are two third party session
smartlookcookies which relate the our live chat’s theme to ensure it display
correctly to users, a session cookie called ssup.chatid to allow the service to
recognise a particular user and supp.vid, a persistent cookie expiring after
179 days that relates to a premium feature of our live chat service.
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 and enhancing the website’s functionality. 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: https://dorsetstoveinstallations.co.uk/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 cookies we use are: _ga and_gid. The _ga cookie is a
persistent cookie which lasts for two years and _gid is a session cookie.
Google Analytics also uses a session cookie called _gat which is described in
more detail in the section above entitled ‘functional cookies’.
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: https://www.dorsetstoveinstallations.co.uk/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: a third party persistent cookie used by Google’s Adsense network which
requires a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device which is used to
target advertisements to the user. This cookie is called NID and expires after
6 months.
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: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the
General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: you give your consent to the
purposes for which we process your information using advertising cookies by
accepting the use of such cookies via our cookie control tool. For further
information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising
cookies, including profiling and automated decision-making please see the
section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our
privacy policy, which is available here: https://dorsetstoveinstallations.co.uk/privacy-policy
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which
you can accept or reject some or all cookies. 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 adjusting your settings 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 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 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
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.
