COOKIE POLICY
Revision date 18.05.2019
GENERAL
Oppic uses Cookies to improve your experience of using the Website and to improve our range of products. Oppic has carefully chosen these Cookies and has taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times. All Cookies used by this Website are used in accordance with current UK and EU Cookie Law.
We reserve the right to amend the details set out in this Policy from time to time and recommend you check this page periodically to ensure you are happy with any changes. Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Your Consent
Before the Website places Cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a pop-up requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies, you are enabling Oppic to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended.
COOKIES WE USE
This Website may place the following Cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to enable core functionality of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping basket or make use of e-billing services. Without these cookies such services cannot be provided. Analytical / Performance Cookies
They collect and report data on the Website usage. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Functional Cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.
Target or Advertising Cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. They remember that you have visited a website and this information (in anonymous and aggregate form) is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Third Party Cookies
When you use our Website, your device or browser may be sent cookies from third parties, for example when using embedded content and social network links. It’s important for you to know that we have no access to or control over cookies used by these companies or third-party websites. We suggest you check their respective policies for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Name | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. | 2 years | HTTP |
| __utmb | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. | Session | HTTP |
| __utmc | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. | Session | HTTP |
| __utmt | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server | Session | HTTP |
| __utmz | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used , what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. | 6 months | HTTP |
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser.
You can choose to delete Cookies at any time; however, you may lose any information that enables you to access the Website more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, personalisation settings.
If you use a PC – click on ‘Help’ at the top of your browser window and select the ‘About’ option If you use a Mac – with the browser window open, click on the Apple menu and select the ‘About’ option.
For Flash Cookies (or Local Shared Objects) – The Adobe website provides comprehensive information on how to delete or disable Flash cookies – see https://www.adobe.com/security/flashplayer/.
For Third Party Cookies – If you’d like to opt out of third party company cookies, please use the-opt out tool offered by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) – see https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. Otherwise, we suggest you contact the relevant third party for more information about their cookies and how you can manage them.