Cookie Policy
What is a Cookie and why do we use them?
A cookie is a piece of information, like a tag, that’s stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit our website. It can help identify the device you use whenever you visit us, so we can remember who you are. Cookies are used by websites including ours, to provide you with a better experience when you visit our website and for other reasons, including remembering your preferences. Cookies also help us understand how visitors use our site, for example, what pages they view and for how long, this assists us create a better site.
What Cookies are there?
There are two types of Cookie:
- Session Cookie
- Persistent Cookie
- Session Cookies are temporary and start working once a visitor begins using our site. They are deleted once the visitor’s browser is closed.
- Persistent Cookies will remain on a visitor’s device until the time set for the Cookie to expire passes or the Cookie is purposely deleted. These types of Cookies are activated each time a visitor returns to our site. Cookies fall into four categories;
- Strictly necessary
- Performance
- Functionality
- Targeting/Advertising
Strictly necessary Cookies
These types of Cookies are required for a visitor to use our website, for example to navigate and to use the features we have made available. These Cookies do not collect information about you and cannot be used to identify you or used for marketing purposes.
Performance Cookies
These types of Cookies assist us to understand how visitors use our website. They do not contain or collect any personal information and are only used to help us improve the visitor experience on our website.
Functionality Cookies
These types of Cookies enable visitors to customise how a website operates for them.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These types of Cookies allow websites to deliver relevant advertisements to you. Targeting/Advertising Cookies are ‘1st party’, placed on a website by AQ Revolution or ‘3rd party’, when AQ Revolution has given permission to an alternative organisation for the Cookie to be placed on its site. We do not currently use this type of cookie.
How you can manage your Cookies
We do not recommend rejecting the use of Cookies or deleting them. However, you are able to use your browser settings to reject the use of cookies. If you do so, when you visit our website your experience and capabilities of using our website will be diminished.
Links to other websites
We may provide links to external resources that we believe to be useful to you. These links will lead you to websites managed by third parties that operate using different policies. Should you click on one of these links you will be leaving the AQ Revolution site for a site over which we have no control.