Andica Cookies Policy
Updated on: 24 May 2018
Our Cookies Policy
Thank you for visiting our website. This cookie notice applies to our website, any website or our branded pages on third party platforms, web pages that we can control (e.g. on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) and applications accessed or used through such websites or platforms which are operated and update by or on behalf of Andica.
By using our website, you are consenting to our use of cookies and other tracking technology in accordance with this notice. If you do not agree to our use of cookies and other tracking technology in this way, you should set your browser settings accordingly or not use our website. If you disable cookies that we use, this may impact your user experience while on our website.
It is now a common practice for most websites to use cookies. We use cookies on this and other websites owned and/or operated by Andica Limited to ensure that you get a better experience on our websites. Here we have provided an overview of the information gathered by cookies, how it is used and why these cookies are stored on your computer.
Most browsers accept and maintain cookies by default. If the settings on your browser are set to accept cookies and by accessing and continuing to use our websites we take this to mean that you are fine with this and you are accepting our Privacy and Cookies Policy and accepting to receive all cookies stored by Andica websites. Cookies settings are a feature of the internet browsers on your device. You are in control of your device settings and can change your cookies settings at any time.
We may collect information about your computer including your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration and analytical purpose using our own cookies or trusted third parties cookies. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are often encrypted or encrypted information passed on by web servers and stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are used by websites to help users (browsing those websites) navigate the website efficiently and perform certain functions. A couple of the key functions are of enhancing and/or enabling usability of the website and assists through processes such as shopping, etc. Cookies may store information of pages you have navigated to and from, shopping cart selections, etc.
Types of cookies
The length of time a cookie stays on your device depends on its type. We use three types of cookies on our websites.
Session cookies are temporary cookies which only exist during the time you use a website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after using a website). Session cookies help websites remember what you chose on the previous page, avoiding the need to re-enter information.
Limited time cookies are temporary cookies which only exist for a limited number of hours from when you use a website. Example of limited time cookies are shopping cart cookies which help websites remember what product and information you added to your cart before completing the shopping process. This helps in case you kept the page open for a while or closed the web page and intended to come back to it soon.
Persistent cookies stay on your device after you have visited a website. Persistent cookies help identify you as a unique visitor but don't contain information that could be used to identify your personal details, or identify you to another person.
In the main, we use cookies to:- Make our website work as we and you would expect
- Remember your product selections and preferences on order while navigating between pages so that we can process the order properly in e-commerce shopping cart
- Remember if you have accepted our Policies and Terms & Conditions
- Capture your details as you have provided on the order you are placing
- Determine if you are logged into the website or not (where applicable)
- Enable navigation between, to and from, our websites, our e-commerce shopping cart applications and the search engines, payment service providers and your card issuing bank all of whom will be using their own cookies which are out of our control.
- Track, measure and analyse website usage and determine pages and areas users prefer
- Improve the delivery of relevant information, speed and security of the site
- Remember your search settings
- Collect any of your personal information from your computer
- Collect any personally identifiable information
- Collect any sensitive information
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Third Party Cookies
Our websites uses Google Analytics which is one of the most popular and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how visitors to the websites use the site and ways that we can improve user experience. These cookies may track things such as how long users spend on the site and webpages that users navigate to so we can continue to produce relevant and engaging content.
Since we market and sell products and services and it is important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase, cookies may track this type of analytical data which enables us to monitor our costs such as advertising to ensure the best possible product price for customers.
To obtain details on Google Analytics cookies, refer to the official Google Analytics web page.
Andica websites also contain links to social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google+, etc. Some web pages on our websites may also contain content from and links to other third party websites. These sites may set their own cookies.
We may also use cookies provided by other trusted third parties for the purposes indicated in our policies.
Andica has no control over third party cookies.
Cookie Settings
Should you wish to remove/clear cookies from your computer or not use cookies from our websites you can switch cookies off by changing your internet browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. You can check the 'Help' menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookies preference. There is no other way to prevent these cookies being set other than blocking cookies or to not use our websites.
Disabling cookies may prevent you from using some or all sections of the websites, prevents online order processing and payments.
Further information on cookies
For more general information on cookies refer the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies and/or you may wish to search on the internet for information using your preferred search engine.
Details on the new legislation regarding cookies can be viewed on the Information Commissioners Office's website https://ico.org.uk/
We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this notice and our other Legal notices. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and new additional information.
