Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device.

What are cookies used for?

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your browsing experience because they help websites ‘remember you’, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie) remembering your preferences and understanding how people use the site and it’s different features.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier and can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site - for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognize you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

What types of cookies does Target Catering Equipment use?

There are generally four categories of cookies: ‘Strictly Necessary’, ‘Functionality’, ‘Analytic and Performance’, and ‘Targeting’. Target Catering Equipment routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the Website. You can find out more about each category below.

Functionality and Strictly Necessary Cookies

Target Catering Equipment’s Website uses some ‘Strictly Necessary’ cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on the Website. These cookies help features such as accessing logged in or secure areas such as customer accounts, shopping cart, checkout and URL redirects.

‘Functionality Cookies’ used allow Target Catering Equipment to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, whether you made a comment on an article or an edit to the Website while logged out, when logged in or out, the state or history of the Website’s tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Website to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you have customised the Website in other ways. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Target Catering Equipment uses ‘Analytic and Performance’ cookies to collect information about how users interact with our website. For example, traffic source, page visits and cookie preferences. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Website usage and experiment with new features and changes on the Website. The information collected is used to improve how the Website works.

Targeting Cookies

Target Catering Equipment, our advertising partners or other third-party partners may use ‘Targeting’ cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than Target Catering Equipment. This information may be shared with organisations outside Target Catering Equipment, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Website usage statistics and aggregate Website testing.

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a ‘persistent’ or ‘session’ cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

First and third-party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Target Catering Equipment, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Website. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Target Catering Equipment, for example to help us understand how our Website is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the internet.

How to control and delete cookies

Although cookies are generally quite harmless, some users may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions of the website by doing so. You can block cookies by going into your browser control panel/preferences.