Cookie Policy

This policy sets out the basis on which we, 24 Acoustics Ltd, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, 24acoustics.co.uk (our Website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 22nd May 2018.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.

Contents

About Cookies

First-Party Cookies

Third-Party Cookies

Clicky Analytics cookies

Targeting (or advertising) cookies:

Web beacons (Tracking Pixels)

How to accept or reject cookies

Other links to external websites

Contact


About Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and Non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘Non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

  • used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or

  • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and Persistent Cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser:

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First & Third Party Cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’:

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

First-Party Cookies

The following cookies are set directly by the website:

Cookie Set By: Website

Name: moove_gdpr_popup

Purpose: This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on our websites Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.

Expires: 1 year

Data sent to: UK

Categories: Essential

Cookie Set By: Website

Name: SESSIONID

Purpose: A session cookie is required to follow your progress through the website. It is essential to ensure that any information you enter or routes you take are remembered by the website. Without this cookie, every page you visited would treat you as a completely new visitor.

Expires: End of session

Data sent to: UK

Categories: Essential

Cookie Set By: statcounter.com

Name: sc_is_visitor_unique

Purpose: This cookie is set by the website that you visit. When it is first set, a random id is generated and stored in the cookie in order to avoid counting you as a visitor more than once (e.g. if you are on a mobile device and your IP address changes while you browse). Similarly to the is_unique cookie, this cookie also stores a count of your returning visits.

Expires: 2 Years

Data sent to: Ireland

Categories: Non- Essential, Statistics


Third-Party Cookies

The following cookies are placed on your device by third party website domains.

Cookie Set By: fontawesome.com

Name: mp_*_mixpanel

Purpose: Required to use the Font Awesome service, for icon display.

Expires: 2 years

Data sent to: USA

Categories: Non-essential, Functional

Cookie Set By: Google Maps

Name: NID, PREF, KHCOOKIE, APISID, HSID, NID, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SNID, SSID

Purpose: These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps.

Expires: 6 months, 2 years, when you close your browser, respectively

Data sent to: USA

Categories: Non-essential, Functional

Cookie Set By: StatCounter

Name: is_unique,

Purpose: Unique/Returning Cookie. This holds data on your visits to websites which use StatCounter. We solely use it to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor on each website and to estimate your accumulated unique visits per site. No personal information is stored in the cookie.

For more details please read Stat Counter overview.

More privacy information https://statcounter.com/about/legal/

You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them by visiting AboutCookies.org

Expires: 5 years

Data sent to: Ireland

Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Get Clicky

Name: _jsuid,

Purpose: Used to improve website performance further we also use real time tracking cookies from Get Clicky. Get Clicky enables us to understand visitor behaviour in real time, which is valuable for evaluating the success of news or blog posts and rectifying any issues with the website should they arise.

More privacy information https://clicky.com/terms

You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them by visiting AboutCookies.org

You can opt out here https://clicky.com/optout?optin=1

Expires: 90 Days

Data sent to: USA

Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google reCAPTCHA

Name: PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID

Purpose: These cookies are used by Google to help protect this Website from “spambots”. Used on filling out forms. Without these cookies we would not be able to send the contact form to us.

Further privacy information: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Expires: 30 days

Data sent to: Browser, data and time requests to USA

Categories: Essential, Functional

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.

Clicky Analytics cookies

Clicky Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Roxr Software Ltd collects and processes information from our use of Clicky Analytics. To find out more about how Clicky Analytics handles information collected from Clicky Analytics, see Clicky Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://clicky.com/terms/privacy

For information on how Clicky Analytics uses data from cookies it uses, please visit https://clicky.com/help/faq/privacy/gdpr

How to opt in or out from Clicky Analytics cookies:

To opt out of Clicky Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: https://clicky.com/optout?optin=1

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and web beacons.

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies via adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below explain how to change your browser settings for the most commonly used web browsers:

Google Chrome:https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB

Mozilla Firefox:https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History

Microsoft Internet Explorer:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer

Apple Safari:https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US

Opera:https://www.opera.com/help

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine.

Existing cookies

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

Web beacons (Tracking Pixels)

Web beacons are used in our statcounter.com. Web beacons are small GIF image files which enable us to track your receipt of our marketing emails, how often you view our adverts or website pages, your location, IP address and browser information. Web beacons are activated whenever you open a marketing email or access a page on our website which contains a web beacon.

How to opt in or out from Web beacons

You can block web beacons via Privacy Badger and Ghostery

You can block Facebook web beacons by installing a browser add-on tool called ‘Disconnect Facebook pixel and FB tracking’. This will stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. You can install the tool here:

European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool

You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking “Your Ad Choices”, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the “Off” option. You can also use NetworkAdvertising.org.

Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: To analyse the effectiveness of our marketing and performance purposes on the website. Further details available available here.

Other links to external websites

Visitors are provided with the option to navigate to a variety of external websites where we have a presence. When the visitor selects the option to view the content from these websites, they are taken away from the website and to the other site, where a variety of cookies may be used throughout the visit. We are not responsible for any cookies used once the visitor has left this website.

LinkedIn: Refer to privacy policy at LinkedIn

Twitter: Refer to privacy policy at Twitter

YouTube: Refer to privacy policy at YouTube

Google: Refer to privacy policy at Google

Contact

If you have any questions about this cookie policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to info@24acoustics.co.uk or by post to: Rebekah McGill, Quality Control, 24 Acoustics Ltd, Pepper Mill Barn, Old Salisbury Lane, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 0GD

Alternatively you can contact us by telephone on +44 (0) 01794 515999

This document was last updated 22nd May 2018