This Cookie Statement applies to the Pool Garage Ltd. website (www.poolgarage.co.uk) only.
What is a Cookie?
A “cookie” is a text file containing small amounts of information which a server downloads to your personal computer (PC) or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are often used to help visitors navigate a website efficiently and to perform certain functions. For more general information about cookies, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Following links to other websites
Pool Garage Ltd. does not pass on any of your personal information to other websites. If you follow a link to another website, please read the privacy policy of that website if you wish to know what it does with your information.
Social networking websites and Third party cookies
The Pool Garage Ltd. website has buttons at the bottom of the homepage to make it easy for you to use social networking websites (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) to ‘like’ our site. Be aware that the social networks may themselves also place cookies onto your computer/mobile browsing device.
These websites are not controlled by Pool Garage Ltd.. By using the social network buttons you accept the privacy policies of these websites (see below).
Facebook is a social networking website that has millions of users worldwide. To use Facebook, you must register and create a profile. You can then add friends to your profile and exchange information with them. Facebook also allows people to start groups and fan pages as well as bookmarking other web pages.
Facebook privacy policy (opens in new window).
Twitter is a social networking service. Users send short updates (tweets) that are a maximum of 140 characters long. You can collect followers and follow other users. You can also tag words, and search tags to find out what other people are talking about.
Twitter privacy policy (opens in new window).
Google Maps
Pool Garage Ltd. also provides links to Google Maps, provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), a site that itself may place a cookie on your computer/mobile browsing device. For more information, please visit Google's privacy policy (opens in new window).
Google reCAPTCHA
Pool Garage Ltd. uses Google reCAPTCHA cookies as part of our email security, allowing you to complete a 'Contact Us' form on our website (form-authentication). We use these cookies to prevent automated attacks on our website by distinguishing between human visitors to our site and automated computer services. This reduces our vulnerability to spam attacks. Please also refer to the Google reCAPTCHA (opens in new window) for more information.
Website statistics
Pool Garage Ltd. uses Google Analytics to help us to understand how you make use of our website. The Google Analytics cookies collect anonymous data on where you have come from, the technology you are using (e.g. Mac or Windows), what time of day you visit, which pages you visit, and how long you spend on our site. This data is then stored by Google in order to create analysis reports that we can use to improve our website. These cookies do not store your personal data.
Your continued use of this website will indicate your agreement to the use of the Google Analytics cookies for the purposes described above. More information on these cookies and advice on how to disable them can be found on the Google Analytics website (opens in new window). Please also refer to Google's privacy policy (opens in new window).
To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.
How to control and delete cookies
Pool Garage Ltd. does NOT use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use or navigate through our website, although some functionality may be lost if you do switch them off. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can disable them through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser (normally available via the F1 key) should tell you how.
Instructions for disabling cookies in several popular web browsers can be found below:
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- Firefox - opens in new window
- Google Chrome - opens in new window
- Safari - opens in new window
In addition, the websites www.aboutcookies.org and www.allaboutcookies.org contain information on how to disable cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine.
For information on how to disable cookies on the browser of your mobile phone/tablet, please refer to your device manual.
Cookies used on this website:
| Name of Cookie | Use of Cookie |
|---|---|
| _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz | These cookies are Google Analytics cookies. They are used to measure how visitors use our website. It does not identify you personally but they will use your computer's IP address to establish from where in the world you are accessing the Internet. These cookies activate when you start browsing through the different website pages. |
| NID, PREF | These cookies are used by Google to generate images for maps or to generate a reCAPTCHA image to help protect our email from automated “SpamBots”. |
| guest_id (Twitter), k (Twitter), _twitter_sess (Twitter), original_referer (Twitter), datr(Facebook), lu (Facebook) | These cookies are used by the social networks to allow you to share any of our pages with your network. Please note, we do NOT share any pages without your specific request (i.e. use of the button) to do so. |
| eucookie | This cookie is set when you have confirmed that you have read the cookie banner and have agreed to the use of cookies by this site (i.e. by clicking the "close" button). It will not be set if the cookie banner is ignored. |
