Cookie Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website and is stored on your device. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the website to your interests. Users can set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user, and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all the LiftingSafety websites features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

Any visit to www.liftingsafety.co.uk the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding the cookie left there on the last visit.

How does LiftingSafety use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our harnesses pages, we might find this out from your cookie and harnesses will be in your most popular and favourite products on your second and subsequent visits.

LiftingSafety also use their own and external analytics programs. They gather information regarding the visitors of the LiftingSafety site on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code embedded on our website. LiftingSafety use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. Certain other areas of LiftingSafety may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help that site content to work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear, and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.

Which cookies does LiftingSafety request to store in my browser?

LiftingSafety will utilise certain 3^rd party services for analytical data, this is purely used to improve our services to you and others. Please see the table below to find out the reason we ask to store cookies:

Name	Data Stored	Purpose	Expires
PHPSESSID	A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your current session with our server.	This allows us to identify you with your current session on the servers, it provides access to your user profile and shopping basket.	30 days after your first visit to the website under this session.
_ga, _ga_<container-id>	A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your browser, the times and dates that you interacted with the site recently and the marketing materials or referring pages that led you to the site.	Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), to help us see how our website is used. In doing so information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyse how frequently the same people revisit the University website, how the website is found (from advertising or referring websites), and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.	The cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website.
_gcl_au	A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your browser.	Google AdSense cookie to store and track conversion.	The cookie expires 3 months after your last visit to the website.
eucookie	The string "eucookie"	We use this to store that you have read and accepted the cookie policy.	10 years after the last visit to the website.
lastViewedProds	An array of product ids based on which products you have recently viewed.	This is to populate a section on many of our pages with products	1 year after your last visit.

LiftingSafety cookies and how to reject cookies?

It is your right to be able to reject cookies. Upon first load of the LiftingSafety website in the bottom left there is a popup with the option of 'Necessary Cookies Only'. This will only allow functional cookies, no tracking cookies will be used. If you wish to block the functional cookies you will need to check your specific browser's documentation on how to achieve this.