Engine Table UK cookies
This policy applies to our use of ?cookies? in connection with this website and our online platform engine-table.co.uk (the ?Websites?).
We use cookies on our Websites to help make your visits more effective so we’d like to explain more about how and why we use them. By continuing to browse our Websites without adjusting your browser settings to block cookies (for information about how to do this please see below?Accept or Block Cookies), you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which contain a small amount of information that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, or visit another website which recognises that cookie, your device is able to communicate with the website and the website can read the information held in that cookie.
We use Cookies to help you efficiently browse our websites and to save you time by not having to re-enter your details each time you visit. Cookies allow us to provide you with information and show you content relevant to you. We also use Cookies to analyse how our customers interact with our websites so we can improve the customer journey.
The cookies we use
| Category | Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visitor Analytics | _ga | Used to see how our website users navigate the site. | 2 Years |
| Visitor Analytics | _gat_gtag_UA_75426901_1 | Used to see how our website users navigate the site. | Until you close your browser |
| Visitor Analytics | _gid | Used to see how our website users navigate the site. | 1 Day |
| System | PHPSESSID | A core system cookie that is used to maintain website functions such as login sessions and shopping baskets. | Until you close your browser |
| System | wordpress_logged_in_x | A core system cookie that is used to maintain website logins. | Until you close your browser |
| System | wordpress_sec_x | A core system cookie that is used to maintain website logins. | Until you close your browser |
| System | woocommerce_cart_hash | A cookie that contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. | Until you close your browser |
| System | woocommerce_items_in_cart | A cookie that contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes. | Until you close your browser |
| System | wp_woocommerce_session_ | A cookie that contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. | Until you close your browser |
How we use cookies
We use four categories of cookie on our websites, based upon the International Chamber of Commerce?UK Cookie Guide
- Strictly Necessary
- Performance
- Functionality
- Targeting
Some of these are ?session cookies?, which stay in place only for the duration of your visit to our website and are deleted at the end of your browsing session. Others are “persistent cookies”, which remain on your device for a period of time after you have left the website. Cookies may also be placed by our approved business partners, which are known as “third party cookies”.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the operation of our Websites.
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website.
Without Strictly Necessary Cookies our Websites and back-end services would not work. If you remove or disable these Cookies, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to use our Websites.
Our use of Strictly Necessary Cookies includes:
- identifying you as logged in to the secure parts of our website for the duration of your visit;
- remembering information you have previously entered to complete a form as you proceed through a journey on our Website.
We do not use Strictly Necessary Cookies to:
- collect information about you for marketing purposes; or
- track your internet activity on other websites.
Performance Cookies
Performance Cookies collect information about how visitors use our Websites. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Websites.
Performance Cookies help us to improve the way our Websites work (e.g. by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily) and to recognise when error messages are being received. Performance Cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you.
The information collected by these Cookies is either anonymous or pseudonymised.
Our use of Performance Cookies uses includes:
- analysing how visitors use our website;
- recording any errors that occur;
- testing different designs of our website; and
- measuring the effectiveness of our advertising.
We do not use Performance Cookies to collect personal information.
You can stop Performance Cookies by setting your web browser to reject/block some or all Cookies. You may be able to block specific Performance Cookies provided by third parties by using the tools or preferences on that third party?s website.
Functionality cookies
Functionality Cookies are used to provide services (such as videos) or to remember choices you make so we can personalise our content for you (for example, by remembering your user name, choice of language or region).
Our use of Functionality Cookies includes:
- remembering preferences you have chosen to customise your experience of our Website; or
- providing live chat functionality to you across our Websites.
We do not use Functionality Cookies to target you with adverts on other websites.
You can block these cookies using your browser settings, but this may mean that we cannot offer you certain services and may prevent us from remembering that you have chosen not to receive a certain service.
Targeting Cookies
Targeting Cookies record your visit to our Websites, including the web pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We use this information to make our Websites? to your interests.
This information may be used to trigger direct communications with you.
We may also use information from Targeting Cookies to trigger service support communications.
Targeting Cookies may also be placed by our approved business partners. Targeting Cookies are generally linked to services provided by those third parties e.g. “like” buttons.
You can control whether or not Targeting Cookies are used, however, if you block them, we may not be able to offer you certain functionality.
Accept or block Cookies
You can block any cookies from any website by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of some or all cookies. However, if you block all cookies (including Strictly Necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or part of our Websites. You can also use your browser settings to delete cookies. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit?www.allaboutcookies.org.
If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies may affect all users of that computer.
Where a cookie is provided by a third party, you may be able to use that third party?s own tools to block that cookie.
Other Technologies
Cookies within mobile applications
We only use Strictly Necessary Cookies on our mobile applications. These Cookies are critical to the functionality of our applications, so if you block or delete these Cookies you may not be able to use the application. These Cookies are not shared with any other application on your mobile device. We never use the Cookies from the mobile application to store personal information about you.
Flash Cookies
Flash Cookies make it quicker and easier for you to access websites on subsequent visits that use Flash technology. Deleting them means you may have to re-enter information each time you visit the same site.
Deleting Cookies in your browser will not delete Flash Cookies. You can delete Flash Cookies by going to the Settings Manager for your Adobe Flash Player. You will be taken to the Adobe website, which lists the websites with the cookies in your browser. Just click ?Delete? opposite the relevant website.
Further information
More information about cookies and managing your browser settings can be found at?http://www.allaboutcookies.org
The International Chamber of Commerce’s Guide to Cookies is available at?https://www.cookielaw.org/media/1096/icc_uk_cookiesguide_revnov.pdf
If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users of that computer.
Key Third Party Providers
DoubleClick cookies
Provided by our online advertising supplier, these cookies are used to serve our internet advertisements on other sites. Some of our web pages may contain electronic images that help us see how users interact on these pages. They may also provide DoubleClick with information about the interaction.
Google Analytics
Our websites may use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service provided by Google.
For more information, including details of how to block these cookies specifically, please see?https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en
Third party cookies are also used to track your online purchases of Aviva products made through a third party cashback provider primarily to enable you to redeem cashback rewards offered by such third parties. You must comply with third cookie policies when you sign up for reward schemes offered by such third parties. Further you acknowledge and accept that these third party cookies are directly administered by such third parties and that the purpose, your ability to change cookie settings and or related limitations are set out in their respective policies.
How to control and delete cookies
You may wish to delete cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. For comprehensive information on cookies and deletion of cookies please visit:?www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.