What is a cookie?

In short, a cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device to help ensure that you get the best possible experience when you visit a website.

Why does the Website use cookies?

Cookies allow us to improve the Website’s content, functionality, and speed, while their tracking ability also helps us to understand your likes and dislikes, which means we can respond quickly and adapt the site accordingly. We use cookies because it’s important to us that the time you spend on the Website, is as useful and intuitive as possible.

In fact, without cookie placement, a website cannot remember your preferences for your next visit.

The important thing to remember about all of this is that whilst some cookies are used to track your use of our Website, they cannot be used to identify you personally or tell us who you are.

Here’s a snapshot of all of the cookies we use on the Website:

First and third-party cookies

The cookies set by us are called ‘first-party cookies’. Those set by our partners or services we use are called ‘third-party cookies’.

Third-party cookies enable visitors to our website to see and interact with content such as information, services, or videos provided to us by other companies. The same cookies can also help us with website analytics.

Session and persistent cookies

As with most websites, we also use ‘session cookies’, which exist only for the length of time that you visit our site and are deleted once you close your browser, along with ‘permanent cookies’ also known as ‘persistent cookies’ which remain stored on your browser ready for use the next time you visit our website.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are critical because you can’t access some functionalities of the Website without them.

Performance and functionality cookies

These cookies ensure the display of handy features such as videos.

Third-party cookies used on the Website: Youtube.

Analytics, and customization cookies

We use analytics and customization cookies to gather information on how the website is being used by our visitors and to discover how popular our marketing campaigns are.

We also use the data we get to help customize the website for you and make the content you see as relevant as possible.

Third-party cookies used on the Website: Google Analytics, Facebook, cloudflare.com, doubleclick.net, WP Rocket.

Social networking cookies

These cookies allow visitors like you to share our pages and content through third-party social networking websites.

Third-party cookies used on the Website: Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, VK, Reddit, Tumblr.

How can you manage or disable cookies?

You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies whenever you like, but please remember if you do choose to reject cookies, your access to some of the functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted.

Please visit the website www.aboutcookies.org to learn, in detail, how you can delete and control the cookies that are stored on your computer.

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at admin@simplevalves.com.