Cookie Policy 

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1. INTRODUCTION

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CLR Solutions' website may gather information about your general Internet use by using cookies in order to help you personalise your online experience. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

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Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our Site. If you do not accept and agree with this Cookie Policy, you must stop using our Site immediately.

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2. HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

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a. ESSENTIAL COOKIES

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‘Essential cookies' are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. You consent to us placing non-essential cookies on your computer or device by continuing to use our website with your browser settings set to accept cookies.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

1. authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

2. status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

3. personalisation – we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you;

4. security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

5. advertising – we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;

6. analysis – we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and

7. cookie consent – we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

Some of our service providers also use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. These are the third party service providers that store cookies when you visit our website. We use Wix Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Wix Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Wix's Privacy Policy is available at: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy.

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b. FUNCTIONAL COOKIES

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. The first visit you make to the website, you can enable 'functional cookies' in the "Settings" in the pop-up cookie banner at the bottom of the page.

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c. MARKETING/TRACKING COOKIES

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'Marketing/Tracking cookies' are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. The first visit you make to the website, you can enable Marketing cookies in the "Settings" in the pop-up cookie banner at the bottom of the page.

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d. SOCIAL MEDIA AND PAYMENT BUTTONS (THIRD PARTY COOKIES)

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On our website we have included buttons for Facebook, LinkedIn and Paypal to promote our webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) on social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. and for payment of services like Paypal. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook, LinkedIn and Paypal themselves. This code places cookies. These social media/payment buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, LinkedIn and Paypal are located in the United States.

'Third party Cookies' are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. 

For further information on how we handle personal information please refer to our Privacy Policy below, https://www.clrsolutions.co.uk/privacypolicy.

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3. ENABLING/DISABLING AND DELETING COOKIES

 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

Google Chrome:  https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB

Mozilla Firefox:  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-Cookies-website-preferences

Microsoft Internet Explorer:  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/278835

Apple Safari:  https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265

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You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.

 

4. CHANGES TO THE COOKIE POLICY

We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. If we do so, details of the changes will be highlighted at the top of this page. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our Site after the changes have been made. 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.

 

5. CONSENT

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When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Accept", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

If you would like to know more about how we use Cookies, please contact us on claire@clrsolutions.co.uk.

Policy Date: March 2022