Cookies policy

1. What is a cookie?

• A cookie is a piece of information stored on your computer’s hard drive — if you agree to this — which records how you move your way around a website. Agreeing to cookies means when you revisit that website you can be presented with tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
  
  
• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
  
  

We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies, you may not be able to access any or parts of our site.

2. How do we use cookies?

• We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns you create while visiting our site. This helps us to respond better to what you might need when we develop our products and services as well as our website. For example, cookies are used to:
  
  
  • Remember what’s in a shopping basket when shopping for goods online
  • Support users to log in to a website;
  • Analyse traffic to a website
  • Track users’ browsing behaviour.

Cookies are either:

• Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page, but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
• Persistent cookies: these are stored as a file on your computer and remain there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. 

Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

• Strictly necessary cookies: these are essential to enable you to use the website effectively. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or for remembering where you have been on the internet.
  
  
• Performance cookies: these cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources, and see which parts of the site are most popular.
  
  
• Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
  
  
• Targeting cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.
  
  
• First and third-party cookies: first-party cookies are cookies set by our website. [SPECIFY WHETHER USING FIRST ONLY (SET BY WEBSITE) OR ALSO THIRD-PARTY COOKIES (FOR EXAMPLE, SOCIAL MEDIA OR OTHER PLUG-INS)]   

3. Your preferences

You can alter your cookie preferences at any time. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect. You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all the websites you visit, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to contact us at hello@think-fit.co.uk. 

For more information about cookies and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR) which govern their use in the UK, visit https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/guide-to-pecr/what-are-pecr/