What is this Policy About?
This policy is to provide you with information about how Euro Car Parts Limited (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) make use of cookies on our website and how they relate to your privacy online.
About Our Cookies
We are not only addressing the legal compliance aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679), when applicable, but we also believe in open and transparent business operations. The information contained on this page is provided to ensure you are fully aware of the cookies we use, allowing you to make an informed choice about your continued acceptance of cookies. We want you to be confident in using our sites, and for you to be more than satisfied that your privacy is of utmost importance to us.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites place on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device. They remember your visit to the site and your preferences, and enable additional features of the website to work. They may also tailor the information or adverts you see on the site and on other websites. Use of cookies is common practice and many websites use them and most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. For more detailed information about how cookies work, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Why Do We Use Cookies?
Cookies serve many functions. Cookies help us track the number of visitors we have had and run our site efficiently. This helps us to continually improve our service so that our customers get the best user experience.
However, none of these cookies gather any personal identifying information such as a person’s name or e-mail address. Any information gathered using cookies is compiled on an aggregate or anonymous basis.
We never sell the data we hold about your shopping preferences to other companies, but use it exclusively to make your experience using our website better.
What Cookies Do We Use?
Types
There are a couple types of cookie that may be used during your visit our website:
Analytics – We use these cookies to aggregate information about how our visitors and customers use our site, for example how many people visit and which are the favourite pages.
Information about the individual cookies are below:
Names: _ga _gid _gat
Purpose: These are the Google Analytics cookies, used by Google to anonymously track visitors to the website
Lifespan
In relation to the types of cookies listed above above there are two lifespans of cookie that may be used during your visit to a Euro Car Parts website:
1. Session cookies
Session cookies are deleted after each visit to our site. For example, when you are browsing a Euro Car Parts site, it will remember you for the duration of your visit, but the cookie will be removed from your computer as soon as you close down your internet browser. It is session cookies that allow you to add an item to the basket and then move through the checkout. Disallowing these cookies via your web browser will mean you are unable to place an order on this site.
Turning Off and Deleting Cookies
Most web browsers will provide the option to turn off, or disallow cookies. How you do this depends on the web browser you are using. Instructions for disallowing cookies can usually be found in the browser’s ‘Help’ menu. Cookies can be deleted using your web browser. However, unless they are disallowed they will be re-applied the next time you visit a website.
Instructions on how to manage cookies can be found here http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Contact
If you have any further questions or would like any further clarification around our use of cookies or wish to discuss how we are embracing online privacy, please contact us at sars@eurocarparts.com or write to us at: Euro Car Parts Limited, Legal Department, T2 Birch Coppice Business Park, Danny Morson Way, Dordon, Tamworth, England, B78 1SE.
