ENERGY EARTH UK COOKIE POLICY

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and to recognize you and your online browsing preferences. For example, Cookies allow us to remember the items you left in your shopping cart during your last visit so you don’t have to search for them again upon your return. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. If you do not wish to have a cookie on your system, you can set your browser preferences to refuse them (please consult your browser’s help section for instructions). However, some cookies are necessary to process your online transaction.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • 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 and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

In terms of Targeting cookies, we use a Google Analytics tag to support Display Advertising. We’ve also implemented several features based on Display Advertising including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Visitors are welcome to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising or customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings. There is also a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that can prevent your data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

We will not merge personal data with non-personally identifiable information collected from Display Advertising features based on the DoubleClick cookie, without first having been granted permission from you, the user.

Third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the internet, EnergyEarth and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. We also use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site. EnergyEarth also uses data from Google’s Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics in order to improve your experience on our Website.

We provide more detailed information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

You block cookies 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 all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.