Equipment Support Company – Cookie Policy

 

Last updated July 2019

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data in the form of a text file that may be stored on your computer or mobile device having visited a website. It allows a website “remember” your actions or preferences over a length of time.

More detailed information on cookies can be found here

How Cookies are used on this website

There are two main categories of cookie…

  1. Session Cookies: are temporary cookies that are not stored on your computer or mobile device. These session cookies are erased when you close your browser, or after 20 minutes of inactivity.
  2. Persistent cookies: are cookies placed on your computer or mobile device for a pre-determined length of time when you visit this site.

Equipment Support Company use Google Analytics to assist in managing our website to ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format and as a tool to give our members/visitors best service.

Below is a list of cookies that we use

Cookie Name : _gat                       Expiration : 2 years

Cookie Name : _ga                         Expiration : 27 days

Cookie Name : _gid                       Expiration : 30 days

These cookies are part of Google Analytics and allow us to measure information about how visitors use our site. This includes identifying each unique user to our site and details of each page visited. _gat is used to limit the collection of analytics data on high traffic sites.

For further information, please read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data 

 What Personal Data is collected by using this website?

This website will collect the IP address of visitors. While Equipment Support Company cannot identify an individual by an IP address (an identifier number assigned to each computer and other device) that same information may be passed on to the competent Authority so they make take the necessary steps to obtain information from the relevant ISP to identify an individual if they consider initiating criminal prosecutions as a result of a cyber-attack against this site.

Managing/Removing Your Cookies 

To control the cookies from/on your computer or mobile device, please see the attached links for the most common web browsers in use. Note: Third Party Cookies may be set when using hyperlinks to another website. Note: The links below take you to external websites.

To provide our website users with the option of excluding their data from being used by Google Analytics, please click the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript here.

To view Google analytics data privacy and security analytics information click HERE

You may also wish to block web beacons, cookies, and similar technologies through software products such as:

Equipment Support Company welcomes objective feedback in respect of this Cookie Policy.

NOTE: This Cookie Policy is reviewed regularly and forms part of our overall Privacy Notice suite.