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Cookie policy
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and to give you a good experience when you browse our website.
1. Introduction
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
2. About cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you allow us to do so. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
3. Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes:
• Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website (cookies used for this purpose are: PHPSESSID);
• Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website (cookies used for this purpose start with: wfvt_);
4. Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The relevant cookies are: _ga, _gid, _gat, gwcc.
5. Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies that have been stored on your computer. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via the below sites:
• https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
• http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
• https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
• https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
6. Our details
This website is owned and operated by Online Direct Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 03599738, and our registered office and principal place of business is at Online Direct Limited, Unit 2A, 300 Pavilion Drive, Northampton, England, NN4 7YE.
You can contact us by post at the address above, or via our Contact page. Email: enquiries@onlinedirect.co.uk · Phone: 01604 641363.