Cookie Policy
A cookie is a piece of information that a website stores in your website browser. The browser sends the information back to the website every time you visit a page on that website, enabling the website to recognise you.
Cookies include information such as the lifetime and expiry date of the cookie, the domain the cookie has come from and an identifier – for example, a random unique number.
Cookies can be categorised in different ways. In terms of duration, there are session cookies and persistent cookies.
Session cookies last only as long as your browser is open. Common uses for session cookies include remembering what’s in your shopping cart on an ecommerce site.
Persistent cookies are written onto your device’s memory and come with an expiration date. They last until the expiration date or until you delete them. Persistent cookies may further be classed as first-party or third-party.
Your web browser uses first-party persistent cookies for many quality-of-life enhancements, like remembering that you’re signed in so you don’t need to log in every time you visit the same site. Third-party persistent cookies are not used by the owner of the website you are visiting but by the owner of a resource on the website you are visiting. Our website does not use third-party persistent cookies.
Cookies can be further categorised in terms of functionality:
Strictly Necessary or Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around a website and use its features. These cookies do not gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. We are not required to get your consent to the use of Strictly Necessary Cookies. They last for one session and expire when you leave our website or close your browser. Cookies that fall into this category are:
- Shopping cart cookies (we do not have a shopping cart)
- Access to protected areas of a website (we do not have a protected area)
- Remembering previously entered text so it isn’t lost if the page refreshes
Non-essential Cookies
These are cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies. They include:
Performance Cookies store anonymous information only and therefore cannot be used to identify you. We are required to get your consent to the use of Performance Cookies. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. Performance Cookies can be deleted from your browser history at any point before their expiry time.
We have Google Analytics enabled which uses cookies to track your usage of our website. This provides us with information which helps us make our website easier to use. It does not provide us with information about you. Google Analytics includes an option to share data about your usage of our website with other Google services. We do not allow this. Google’s privacy policy: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
Functionality Cookies remember your preferences to personalise your experience on our website. We are required to get your consent to the use of Functionality Cookies. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. Functionality Cookies can be deleted from your browser history at any point before their expiry time. A functionality cookie might, for example, remember that you have already seen a pop-up. Currently, we do not use any functionality cookies on our website.
The Green Rhino website uses the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are used to help the website function. They do not collect any information about you.
| Cookie name | Description |
|---|---|
| UUID#[abcdef0123456789]{32} | Necessary for the operation of the site: it detects language and assigns an anonymous ID to the user. |
Non-essential cookies
These cookies are used to help the website function. They do not collect any information about you.
| Cookie name | Description |
|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |