Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 1, 2024
Introduction to Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data that a website you visit sends to your browser and stored on your device’s hard drive. They are used by many websites to do things like remember your preferences, store information for login sessions, and analyze how people use the site so that the experience can be improved. Cookies can be “session” cookies, which are temporary and once you close your browser, are deleted, or “persistent” cookies, which remain on your device for a set period of time.
Types of Cookies Used on Our Website
Our website, Auction Services Gloucestershire, uses various types of cookies to ensure functionality, improve performance, enhance user experience, and provide targeted content. The types of cookies we use include:
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Necessary Cookies: These are essential for the operation of our website and enable you to navigate the site and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
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Performance Cookies: These collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. The information collected by these cookies is aggregated and used to improve our website’s functionality and user experience.
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Functionality Cookies: These allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have applied to minimize or enlarge certain text elements of the site.
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Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These are used to deliver content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may be used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you, or to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations, including suppliers and their data processing partners.
Third-Party Cookies
We also use cookies provided by third parties, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand how our visitors use the site and to enable targeted advertising based on your preferences and repeated interactions with our services. These third-party service providers may use persistent cookies to track information about your online activities over time and across different websites.
Managing and Deleting Cookies
You have the right to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-in/opt-out buttons provided on our website. Furthermore, you can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or reject cookies before they are stored on your computer. As our website cannot distinguish your preference from those of another user of your device, you may need to configure your individual browser settings as follows:
- For Google Chrome, visit the ‘Cookies’ section of the Chrome Help page.
- For Mozilla Firefox, visit the ‘Options’ or ‘Preferences’ menu.
- For Safari (on iOS devices), go to ‘Settings’, then ‘Safari’.
- For Microsoft Edge, see the ‘Privacy & security’ section under ‘Settings’.
Consent and Control
By continuing to use our website without changing your settings, you are agreeing to our use of cookies as described in this policy. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by following the above instructions for managing cookies.
Updates to Our Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, law, our business operations, or the products and services offered through our website. The updated notice will be indicated by a “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please contact us at:
This Cookie Policy is designed to comply with the standards set out by GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA, and UK GDPR to the extent they apply to our website.