Cookie Policy for CredPhone
This is the CredPhone Cookies Policy, accessible at https://credphone.co.uk
What are cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are small files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they collect, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however this may degrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for a number of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disable cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser’s Help for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will generally result in disabling certain functionality and features of this website. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The cookies we set
- Account-related cookies If you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the registration process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out. However, in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when you are logged out.
- Login-related cookies We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This saves you from having to log in every time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or erased when you log out to ensure you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
- Email newsletter related cookies This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and to show certain notifications that may only be valid for subscribed users /canceled.
- Orders processing related cookies This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
- Survey-Related Cookies We occasionally offer surveys and questionnaires to users to provide interesting information and useful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after you change pages.
- Forms-related cookies When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site Preference Cookies To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site operates when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever your interaction with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third-party cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you may encounter on this website.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us understand how you use the site and ways we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things like how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things like how long you spend on the website or the pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the website for you.
- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate most.
- As we sell products it is important that we understand statistics about how many visitors to our website actually make a purchase and as such this is the type of data these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means we can accurately make business forecasts that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
- The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a particular ad is shown to you. For more information about Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense Privacy FAQ.
- We use advertising to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for future development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant advertisements where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest to you.
- A number of partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have accessed the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners provide any bonuses they can provide for you to make a purchase.
- We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect to your social network in a variety of ways. In order for them to work, the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated into your website?:12}, will set cookies through our website that may be used to enhance your profile on their website or contribute to the data they maintain for various purposes described in their respective privacy policies.
More information
We hope this has clarified things for you and, as previously mentioned, if there is something you are not sure whether you need or not, it is generally safer to leave cookies enabled in case they interact with one of the features you use on our website.
However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us via one of our preferred contact methods:
- Email: info@credphone.co.uk