COOKIES POLICY
Last updated: [September 2021]
1. INTRODUCTION
2. This Policy is in relation to the websites operated by Rawlplug Limited, a company incorporated England and Wales with company number 05497750, having its registered address at 21 Holburn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DY (“Rawlplug”, “us”, “we” or “our”).
2.1 This cookie policy only relates to your use of our websites namely www.rawlplug.co.uk
2.2 Throughout our Website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties suggesting additional products and services available to you. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
2.3 Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
2.4 Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences (for example language choice), and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
2.5 Cookies are referred to as session or persistent, depending on how long they are stored on your computer or device:
- Session cookies only last for the length of your online session. They disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for a set period of time specified in the cookie. These cookies are activated each time you visit the site that generated the cookie.
3. PERFORMANCE COOKIES
3.1 Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
3.2 The Website currently uses few types of performance cookies including Google Analytics.
3.3 Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate Rawlplug’s use of the Website and compiles reports on user activity. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States and other countries. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
3.4 It is possible to opt out of having your anonymized browsing activity within websites recorded by analytics cookies.
3.5 Google Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
3.6 Rawlplug also uses cookies for additional purposes, including:
- Identifying you when you sign-in to the Website. This allows Rawlplug to provide you with product recommendations, display personalized content, recognize you as a prime member (if applicable), and enable you to use special features in purchasing, among other customized features and services Rawlplug provides.
- Keeping track of your specified preferences. You may generally exercise your preferences through your account.
- Keeping track of items stored in your shopping basket.
- Preventing fraudulent activity.
- Improving security.
- Direct marketing of own product.
4. FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
5. MANAGING COOKIES IN YOUR BROWSER
5.1 Modern browsers allow you to perform a number of tasks in relation to cookies including the ability to view the cookies currently stored on your computer or device and delete them on an individual basis, block third party cookies, block cookies from particular sites, prevent all cookies from being set and delete all cookies when you close your web browser.
5.2 You should note that any individual preferences will be lost if you delete cookies, including a preference to opt out of cookies (since this requires an opt-out cookie to be set). If you choose to block cookies completely, many websites will not work properly and some functionality may be lost.
5.3 The links below take you to the relevant 'Help' sections for the major web browsers. Here you will be able to find out more information about how to manage your cookies.
Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
Google Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Opera:
https://help.opera.com/en/presto/browser-behavior/#cookies
Safari:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Safari iOS:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265
Android:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
6. CONTACTING US
6.1 If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us by:
- 6.1.1 e-mail: marketing@rawlplug.co.uk
- 6.1.2 post: Rawlplug Ltd, Skibo Drive, Thornliebank Industrial Estate, Glasgow G46 8JR
6.2 For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
6.3 We reserve the right to update this policy from time to time and upon your engagement and use of the website, you are deemed to have read the most recent version.