1. What’s in these Terms?
This Cookies Policy explains how We use Cookies on the Last Mile Heat Limited website (https://lmheat.co.uk) referred to as the “Website“.
By using Our Website, You confirm that You accept the terms of this Policy and that You agree to comply with them. If You do not agree to these terms, You must not use Our Website. This Policy should be read in conjunction with Our Privacy Notice and Website Terms and Conditions.
2. Definitions
“You” means you, the user of a Website and “Your” shall be interpreted accordingly.
“We/Us/Our” means Last Mile Heat Limited.
3. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on Your device and used by website operators in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the operators of the website or certain third parties. Each Cookie usually contains a unique string of characters, which allows a website to distinguish Your browser or device from other users. In this Policy, We use the term “Cookie” to mean a Cookie and any other similar technology, such as web beacons, local stored objects, and pixel tags.
We use Cookies to enable You to navigate between pages on Our Website and to generally improve Your user experience. We also use Cookies to analyse how users interact with Our Website, to enable You to share content using social media, and to provide You with embedded content from third parties, such as maps of Our offices. We also sometimes use Cookie type technologies in emails to identify how users come to Our Website so that We can evaluate and measure the effectiveness of Our email marketing.
We may combine information collected via Cookies with information such as Your IP address, the type of browser, device and operating system, for example to provide statistical information about visitors to Our Website. Where the Website uses third parties Cookies, You should check with the relevant third party to see how they use Cookies.
The Cookies that We currently use on Our Website are summarised in more detail below. We recommend that You read this so that You are aware of how We use them and can take steps to reject or delete the Cookies if You do not agree to them being used.
4. Cookies We use
We use a variety of different Cookies on Our Website. Each Cookie is initially categorised as a persistent or session Cookie:
- Persistent Cookies: These Cookies expire at the end of a browser session. They allow the Website to recognise and link the actions You take during an individual browsing session.
- Session Cookies: These Cookies are stored for longer after You exit Your browser. These Cookies are stored on Your device in-between browser sessions allowing Your preferences and past actions on Our Website to be remembered.
Then, each Cookie is classified as either a first party or third party Cookie:
- First party Cookies: These are Cookies directly set by Us on Our Website.
- Third party Cookies: These are Cookies set by a third party domain – for example, the provider of a social media plug-in enabling You to share content on through that social media platform.
We then categorise Our Cookies based on what they do:
- Strictly necessary Cookies: These Cookies are essential to the functioning of Our Website.
- Analytical or performance Cookies: These Cookies allow Us to improve the way Our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. See section 6 for more detail on the analytics Cookies We use.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognise You when You return to Our Website.
- 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.
In the table below in section 7, We tell You the profile of the different Cookies We have present on the Website.
5. Consent to the use of Cookies
Some types of Cookies require Us to get Your consent before We can set the Cookie. If a Cookie is not ‘strictly necessary’ to the functioning of Our Website, then We will get Your consent. Cookies that are strictly necessary and essential to the operation of Our Website will be set automatically. The table in section 7 explains if consent is required. You can control Your consent using the cookie banner on the Website.
We may also remind You periodically about Our use of Cookies and ask You to reconfirm Your consent to Cookies when You register for certain services or activate a certain function on Our Website that relies on the use of Cookies.
6. Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics on Our Website to help Us understand how they are used. Unless You use the Cookie control to opt-out, the Google Analytics Cookies will be set automatically upon closing clicking “save and close” in the Cookie control.
