Cookie Policy
This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Epicradiators , use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://www.epicradiators.co.uk/ (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 25/05/2018.
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
- Web beacons
- 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
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:
When visitors load Shopify’s websites, we generally place the following Shopify cookies:
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Sites
| Name | Function |
|---|---|
| _Brochure_session | Used in connection with browsing through site. |
Reporting and Analytics
| Name | Function |
|---|---|
| _landing_page | Tracks landing pages. |
| _orig_referrer | Tracks landing pages. |
| _s | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_s | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
| _shopify_uniq | Shopify analytics. |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. |
| _y | Shopify analytics. |
| ab_test_3190590030 | Shopify analytics. |
| cart_sig | Shopify analytics. |
| ki_r | Shopify analytics. |
| ki_r | Shopify analytics. |
| ki_t | Shopify analytics. |
| ki_t | Shopify analytics. |
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:
| Third Party | Description | Privacy Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Alexa Metrics | We use Alexa Metrics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.alexa.com/help/privacy |
| Bugsnag | We use Bugsnag to help us troubleshoot and fix issues with our websites. | https://docs.bugsnag.com/legal/privacy-policy/ |
| Chartbeat | We use Chartbeat to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://chartbeat.com/privacy/ |
| Crazy Egg | We use Crazy Egg to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.crazyegg.com/privacy |
| Fullstory | We use Fullstory to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.fullstory.com/legal/privacy/ |
| Google Analytics | We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| Hotjar | We use Hotjar to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| KissInsights | We use KissInsights to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://signin.kissmetrics.com/privacy/ |
| LinkedIn Analytics | We use LinkedIn Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| New Relic | We use New Relic to help measure how users interact with our websites. | https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy |
| Optimizely | We use Optimizely to help us test improvements or changes to our websites. | https://www.optimizely.com/privacy/ |
Advertising:
| Third Party | Description | Privacy Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Bing Ads | We use Bing Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-ca/privacystatement |
| Drift | We use Drift to help us with conversational marketing to customers while they visit our websites. | https://www.drift.com/privacy-policy/ |
| Facebook Custom Audiences | We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://www.facebook.com/policy.php |
| We use Google Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://policies.google.com/privacy | |
| Intercom | We use Intercom to manage our relationships with our customers. | https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy |
| Marketo | We use Marketo to manage our relationships with our customers. | https://documents.marketo.com/legal/privacy/ |
| SourceKnowledge | We use SourceKnowledge to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | http://www.sourceknowledge.com/privacy |
| Quora | We use Quora to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. | https://www.quora.com/about/privacy |
Social Media & Content:
| Third Party | Description | Privacy Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Disqus | We use Disqus to provide commenting capabilities on posts on our websites. | https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy |
| Facebook Connect | We use Facebook Connect to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Facebook’s social media platform. | https://www.facebook.com/policy.php |
| Gravatar | We use Gravatar to allow visitors to our websites to create avatars. | https://en.gravatar.com/site/privacy |
| We use Twitter to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Twitter’s social media platform. | https://twitter.com/en/privacy | |
| Wistia | We use Wistia to display video content. | https://wistia.com/privacy |
Web beacons
We also embed web beacons in our marketing emails and on our website. Web beacons are small GIF image files which enable us to track your receipt of our marketing emails, how often you view our adverts or website pages, your location, IP address and browser information. Web beacons are activated whenever you open a marketing email or access a page on our website which contains a web beacon. Web beacons transmit data when you view them but are not capable of accessing any other information on your computer. Web beacons are not stored on your hard drive unless you download a GIF image containing them.
Some (but not all) browsers enable you to restrict the use of web beacons by either preventing them from sending information back to their source (for example, when you choose browser settings that block cookies and trackers), or by not accessing the images containing them (for example, if you select a ‘do not display images (in emails)’ setting in your email server).
HOW TO OPT IN OR OUT
See the section 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 and website.
Facebook Pixel
We 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. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel , including automated decision making and profiling please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: 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 [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. When you first visit our website you will see a bar at the top of the page that will allow uou to Accept or Decline cookies. If you Decline, only Essential Cookies will be served - this could impact on your experience using the website.
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
WEB BEACONS
You can opt out of our use of web beacons in our marketing emails by emailing us.
FACEBOOK PIXEL
You can block Facebook Pixel using our cookie control tool by selecting the 'Decline' option.
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 our 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.