Cookie Policy

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

Cookies are either:

• Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
• Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again.

Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
• Analytics (performance) cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
• Marketing cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertising that is relevant to you and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve. They may be set by us or by advertising networks acting on our behalf, and may be used to build a profile of your interests.

We do not set any analytics or marketing cookies unless you have opted in. Until you do, everything this site stores on your device is strictly necessary: the choice you made, so that we do not have to ask you again on every page, and the position you had scrolled to, so that going back returns you where you were. Neither identifies you.

If you opt in to analytics, we use Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC, to understand how visitors use the site. We use no marketing cookies. If that changes, this page will list them before they are set, and they will only be set if you have opted in to that category.

When you first visit the site we ask whether you are happy for us to use analytics and marketing storage. Nothing in either category is set before you answer, and choosing “Reject” is as easy as choosing “Accept”.

You can change your answer at any time using the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of every page. Withdrawing consent stops any further use of that category immediately; it does not undo processing that already took place while consent was in force.

Your choice is stored only in your browser, so it applies to that browser and device. If you use another browser, or clear your browsing data, we will ask you again.

Your choice is not permanent. We ask again after 180 days — roughly six months — so that a decision you made long ago does not keep authorising storage indefinitely. Until you answer again, nothing outside strictly necessary storage is used.

Strictly necessary storage cannot be turned off here because the site cannot work without it. You can still block it through your browser settings, but parts of the site may then stop working.

For how we handle personal data more generally — including your rights of access, correction and erasure — see our Privacy Policy. If you have a question about either notice, email us at data@cniguard.com