Cookies Policy
CES guarantee our commitment to respecting and protecting your online privacy. This includes your need and your right to know what information is collected, and what we then do with it. It also guides our company’s policies regarding the management of this data, including how the information is collected, processed, and for what purposes. By accessing this website you are consenting to the way information is collected and used, as described within this Privacy Policy. In return, we give the commitment that we will use the personal data you provide only in ways that are compatible with the following Privacy Policy.
(Need to update to GDPR Policy)
What information will CES collect about me?
IP Addresses: Every time you log on to our website your IP (Internet Protocol) address registers on our servers. Your IP address reveals no information other than the number assigned to you (for a given period of time). We do not use this technology to get any personal data against your knowledge or free will. Nor do we use it for any purpose other than to help us monitor traffic on our website, or (in case of criminal activity or misuse of our information) to cooperate with law enforcement.
Cookies
As much as we wish it, these are not the soft, doughy kind. These are simple text files that most websites you visit will use in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Each cookie is unique to your web browser, it will contain some anonymous information which allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket. We seek to use these cookies to help make your experience on our website as pleasant as the chocolate chip variety.
What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set?
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies that are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.
CES-Hire does work without cookies, but some features and functionality will be lost if you choose to disable cookies. For example, you won’t be able to stay logged in between sessions.
First Party Cookies
These are cookies that are set by this website directly.
Google Analytics:
We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html
WordPress: Our websites runs the popular WordPress CMS and cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with WordPress, and whether you have logged into WordPress. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then the functionality for registered users will be broken.
More information on session cookies and what they are used for at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html
Shopping Cart:
We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you and what you’ve put in the shopping basket. These we deem strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken.
Third party cookies
We’re trying to clean up third-party cookies. Until we do, you can block third party cookies by changing your browser settings. These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site.
Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks.
Cookies are currently set by Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website.
You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website. You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.
Google Maps:
We use Google Maps on our Contact Us page to provide detailed information on how to locate our office. We use Google’s interactive maps because we believe they provide a helpful way for our visitors to identify how best to travel to us. For more information on Google privacy policy, it can be found at https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ and the terms of service for Google Maps at https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/help/terms_maps.html.
Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
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_ga | Analytics | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
_gat | Performance | 1 minute | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
_gid | Analytics | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | session | 1 hour | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | session | 1 year | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non-necessary". |
hubspotutk | Analytics | 6 months | This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. |
hutk | Analytics | 6 months | hutk cookie value to enable cookie tracking on your submission |
mailchimp_landing_site | Functional | 4 weeks | The cookie is set by the email marketing service MailChimp. |
NID | Advertisement | 5 months | This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalised ads to the users. |
PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. | |
tk_lr | Analytics | 1 year | This cookie is set by JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analysing referrer behaviour for Jetpack. |
tk_or | Analytics | 5 years | This cookie is set by JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analysing referrer behaviour for Jetpack. |
tk_r3d | Analytics | 3 days | The cookie is installed by JetPack. Used for the internal metrics fo user activities to improve user experience. |