Cookie Policy

Our website

This cookie policy relates to your use of our website, BES Group

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by our group companies and certain trusted third parties who undertake data processing activities on our behalf, in order to make additional products and services available to you and also to our social media pages on Facebook and LinkedIn. These other third party websites and social media pages may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us to recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users, to customise our website and social media pages, to understand how people use our website and social media pages and so that we can make these more intuitive and check they are working as intended. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office , or All About Cookies

Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested – for example, to enable you to put items in your shopping basket and use our check-out process.

You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by using our privacy dashboard by clicking on the cog icon in the bottom left on our website. You can then adjust your consent by unticking the boxes as appropriate. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.

Our use of cookies

Cookie we use: WordPress Emoji Support

Name: wpEmojiSettingsSupports

Purpose: This cookie is utilized to enable emoji support on pages using WordPress.
performance cookies: ‘These cookies collect information about how you use our website, e.g. which pages you go to most often. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous, and is only used to improve how our website works’
Session cookies: ‘These allow our website to link your actions during a particular browser session. These expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards’

Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we still seek your consent before we place the cookie: This is essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie)

Cookie we use: CookieHub Cookie
Name: cookiehub
Purpose: Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site
Functionality cookies: ‘These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites’
Persistent cookies: ‘These are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until 365 days, or you delete them from your cache’
Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we still seek your consent before we place the cookie: Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie)

Cookies we use:Google Analytics
Name: _ga
Purpose: This cookie is used to store and count pageviews for Google analytics.
Functionality cookies: ‘These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites’
Persistent cookies: ‘These are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until 400 days, or you delete them from your cache’
Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we still seek your consent before we place the cookie: Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie)

Cookies we use: WordPress WooCommerce
Name: wpfuuid
Purpose: This cookie is utilized to store a unique user ID for certain sections of the website.
Functionality cookies: ‘These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make (such as your user name, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites’
Persistent cookies: ‘These are stored on your device in between browser sessions. These allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These will remain on your device until 400 days, or you delete them from your cache’
Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we still seek your consent before we place the cookie: No, will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie

Third party access to the cookies

The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.

How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the at UK Information Commissioner’s Office , or at All about Cookies

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, our contact details are:
Data Protection Team, BES Group, Unit 718 Eddington Way, Birchwood Park, Warrington, WA3 6BA
By email: data.protection@besgroup.com
By telephone: please use the contact number published on our website.

Do you need extra help?

If you would like this notice in another format please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).