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Cookies

Squirrell Plant & Transport Hire (the 'Group') would like to place cookies on your computer to help us make this website better. To find out more about these cookies, see our privacy notice below.

How we use your information

This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Squirrell Plant & Transport Hire website collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
– Visitors to our websites
– People who use our services, e.g. who subscribe to our newsletter or request a publications from us
– Job applicants and our current and former employees.

Visitors to our websites

When someone visits www.squirrellplant.co.uk our main corporate website or any of our related microsites we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting any of our websites. We will not associate any data gathered from these sites with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Just so you know, the main cookies on your site are from Google Analytics tracking and there’s also a session cookie generated by the CMS that is essential to the running of the site but holds no personal information.

The below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie: Google Analytics
Name: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz,
Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Cookie: addthis.com
Name: __atuvc, uid
Purpose: These cookies are used to enable visitors to share content from our site, via social networks.
If you disable these cookies, the social sharing feature will not be available to you.

Cookie: Document Creator (session cookie)
Name: documents
Purpose: This cookie enables users to create a document from pages they have viewed on our site.

Cookie: Viewing History (session cookie)
Name: RecentlyViewedPages
Purpose: This cookie enables users to see the history of pages they have visited during the session.

Cookie: Image Optimisation (session cookie)
Name: screen-width
Purpose: This cookie tells our servers the width of a visitors viewing screen, to allow for the optimum size images to be served.

Cookie: Server Identification (session cookie)
Name: X-Mapping
Purpose: Where our sites are hosted on multiple servers, this cookie ensures that for each visit, all page views are delivered by the same server.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Consent

We will assume that if you continue to use our site after reading this legal notice, that you consent to the terms of our use of cookies during your visit to any of our websites and/or microsites.

Cookies & other tracking technologies

Some of our website pages utilise cookies and other tracking technologies. A cookie is a small text file that may be used, for example, to collect information about website activity. Some cookies and other technologies may serve to recall personal information previously indicated by a website user. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them.

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, you will need to re-enter your details to gain access to certain parts of the website.

Tracking technologies may record information such as internet domain and host names, internet protocol addresses, browser software and operating system types, clickstream patterns and dates and times that our website is accessed. Our use of cookies and other tracking technologies allows us to improve our website and your experience.

We may also analyse information that does not contain personal information for trends and statistics.

To protect your privacy, we have adopted the following principles:

Notice

Where the Group collects personal information on the website, we intend to post a purpose statement that explains why personal information will be collected and whether we plan to share such personal information outside of the Group or those working on the Group’s behalf. The Group does not intend to transfer personal information without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on the Group’s behalf unless such transfer is legally required.

Choice

You may choose whether or not to provide personal information to the Group. The notice we intend to provide where the Group collects personal information on the web should help you to make this choice. If you choose not to provide the personal information we request, you can still visit the Group’s websites, but you may be unable to access certain services that involve our interaction with you.

If you chose to have a relationship with the Group, such as a contractual or other business relationship or partnership, we will naturally continue to contact you in connection with that business relationship.