Cookie Policy

COOKIES AND HOW THEY BENEFIT YOU:

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

OUR COOKIES HELP US:

Make our website work as you’d expect
Remember your settings during visits
Improve the speed/security of the site
Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

WE DO NOT USE COOKIES TO:

Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass data to advertising networks.
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
Pay sales commissions.

WE USE COOKIES TO MAKE OUR WEBSITE WORK INCLUDING:

Making our shopping basket and checkout work
Remembering your search settings
Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

THIRD PARTY FUNCTIONS:

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.

ANONYMOUS VISITOR STATISTICS COOKIES:

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

For more information direct from the ICO website click this link: http://www.ico.org.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/online/cookies

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.

Cookied used

NECESSARY

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name: PHPSESSID
Provider: novasolspray.co.uk
Cookie purpose description: Preserves user session state across page requests.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Preferences

Name: cookie_notice_accepted
Provider: google
Cookie purpose description: Allows us to record your acceptance of our cookie notice, so we don’t keep showing it to you.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 29 days

Statistics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Name: _ga
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 2 years

Name: _gali
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page that are being clicked.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Name: _gid
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertiser.

Name: GPS
Provider: youtube.com
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Provider: youtube.com
Cookie purpose description: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 179 days

Name: YSC
Provider: youtube.com
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Name: _gd#
Provider: google
Cookie purpose description: Analytics cookie used to distinguish users.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session