Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.  We also use cookies to determine your preferences and deliver advertisements to you.  By your clear affirmative action of opting-in to the use of, storage of and access to cookies, you are consenting to our use of cookies.  You are able to choose varying levels of privacy through your browser settings.

 

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of data sent to your device from a website which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree.  This means the website can recognise your device if you return to the same website. Some cookies expire at the end of your website session, others remain on your computer for longer.

 

Cookies used on this website

The exact names of cookies we use on this website may change over time, however, the descriptions below set out the types of cookies that operate our website:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website will not function properly without them. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all parts of our website.
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies 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 visitors are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality 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.
  • Targeting cookies.  These cookies collect visitor’s information and use it to build a profile of a visitor’s interests and then show personalised adverts for that specific visitor.

You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Type Purpose More information
Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies allow visitors to move around our website and use essential features including, but not limited to:

(a)   Accessing secure areas of the website;
(b)   Using a shopping cart; and
(c)   Identifying the visitor as being logged in.

 These cookies do not gather any information about visitors that could be used for marketing or remembering where the visitor has been on the internet.

 
As these cookies are necessary for the functioning of our website, visitors are unable to control their use from within the cookies management tool.
Analytical or performance cookies This information is used to improve our website and enhance the experience of its visitors.  For example, these cookies can collect information about:

(a)    How visitors use our website, including details of the site where the visitor has come from (e.g. referring domains, search engines, marketing campaigns);
(b)    The pages viewed by the visitor;
(c)    The site path of the visitor;
(d)    Which content visitors are clicking on;
(e)    Which products visitors are interested in and have purchased; and
(f)    How many times a visitor has visited our website.

 We may share this information with analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website.
Functionality cookies These cookies allow us to provide enhanced, more personalised features to our visitors, including, but not limited to:

(a)   Username;
(b)   Language preference;
(c)   Region or location of the visitor;
(d)   Remembering visitor’s customisation of text size and fonts; and
(e)   Providing services of interaction that the visitor has requested, e.g. the ability to watch a video or the ability to comment on a blog.
Targeting cookies These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. We may share this information with third parties such as our advertising partners to serve you with advertisements elsewhere on the internet.

 

How to control and delete cookies

If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. You can also set your browser to alert you when a website sets or accesses cookies.  The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how to do this.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

Please be aware that 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 website.

If you wish to view a cookie’s code, just open your cookie file in your browser and click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your device manual.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical or performance cookies or targeting cookies. To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data about your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at gdpr@billi-uk.com.