Cookie Policy

The website collingeandco.com (“Our Site”) uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur if you continue using Our Site or when you press the Cookie Acceptance button on Our Cookie pop-up strip. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

What are Cookies?

In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

“Cookie” – are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement;

“Cookie Law” – means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);

“personal data” – means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 and EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);

“We/Us/Our” – means Collinge & Co Holdings, a limited company registered in England under company number 01275240, of which Collinge & Co Training Limited is a subsidiary, whose registered and main trading address is Suite 5 3rd Floor Castle Chambers, 43 Castle Street, Liverpool, L2 9SH. Our site is operated by Collinge & Co Holdings Limited. Our VAT number is GB 163 68 34 47.

How do we use cookies?

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, analytical purposes, social sharing and providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website. For more information, please refer to the section below.

What types of Cookies do we use?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

Targeting Cookies: It is important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties such as Google Analytics and Facebook.

Third Party Cookies: Third party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).

Persistent Cookies: Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our Site.

Session Cookies: Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

Cookies on this site

Analytics Cookies

As well as first and third party cookies, Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google, Facebook and Twitter. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling Us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables Us to improve Our Site and the products and services offered through it. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable Us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.

The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) analytics Cookies to gather the required information.

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites, whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third party Cookies. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org or allaboutcookies.org. Please note that by deleting or disabling future Cookies, your user experience may be affected and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions of Our Site.

We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.

In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

Further Information

If you would like to know more about how We use Cookies, please contact Us at hello@collingeandco.com, by telephone on +44(0)151 709 5942, or by post at Suite 5 3rd Floor Castle Chambers, 43 Castle Street, Liverpool, L2 9SH.

For more information about privacy, dat­­a protection and our terms and conditions, please visit our Privacy Policy.