[Last Updated 10/10/24]
This cookies policy explains how SPITVALVE (“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at http://spitvalve.co.uk. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or data which may become personal information, if combined with additional data.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, to work more efficiently, provide reporting information, and for third-parties to target advertising on our site and others.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, SPITVALVE) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience of our online service. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookies rights by setting your preferences in the cookies consent manager. The cookies consent manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with our site’s core services.
The cookie consent manager can be found in the notification banner which appears upon visiting our site. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some degree of function, though certain areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific online services you visit):
Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you
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Name: g.gif
Provider: pixel.wp.com
Type: pixel_tracker
Expires in: session
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Name: _ga
Purpose: Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user
Provider: .spitvalve.co.uk
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days
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Name: ga#
Purpose: Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions
Provider: .spitvalve.co.uk
Service: Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Advertising cookies:
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions such as shaping the specific targeting of advertisement campaigns to your interests, as analysed by third-party services based on your usage of our site and other sites unafilliated with us, and ensuring adverts are properly displayed on our site.
test_cookie
Name: test_cookie
Purpose: A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.
Provider: .doubleclick.net
Service: DoubleClick View Service Privacy Policy
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 15 minutes
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Updates to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Each update will be marked by a new “revised” date at the top of this page. If substantial material changes are made to the policy, we will endeavour to notify our users through a prominent notice on our site’s homepage body, or through other notification channels. We do encourage you to review this cookies notice frequently to keep up to date with what third-party cookies operate on this site.