We want you to be fully aware of the types of data and information we collect about you when you use www.galanz.com/uk (the “Website”). How we use cookies is integral to your experience and this policy explains exactly what cookies are, the different types of cookies, how we use them and most importantly, how you can control or delete our cookies. You do not have to accept cookies but without accepting them, you may experience reduced website functionality.
Guangdong Galanz Enterprises Co., Ltd – www.galanz.com/uk Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of computer code, normally consisting of just letters and numbers, which online services set on a user’s PC or other device when users visit them. Software on the user’s device (for example a web browser) store the cookies and send them back to the website next time the user visits the site (or relevant page of the website).
Most websites use cookies to improve your online experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse a website.
What are the different types of cookies?
Session cookies – A session cookie only exists while you are reading or navigating the website. These cookie are only stored on your device (which may mean a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile phone) during a single visit to the site (called a ‘browser session’). They do not do anything unless you are actively browsing, and they are deleted as soon as you close your browser.
Persistent cookies – These remain on your device until they are set to expire, or you choose to delete them from your browser cache. They are activated each time you visit the website that created them.
Third-party cookies – First party cookies are cookies set with the same domain (or its subdomain) as your browser’s address bar. Third-party cookies are cookies set with domains different from the one shown on the address bar. For example, an analytics toolwhichhelps us understand how our visitors engage with our website. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors.
Information you provide to us voluntarily:
If you are our customer or a user of the Website (including customers who have product warranties) that have contacted us via the Website, the information we collect may include:
There are various categories of cookies, and we have set out below the kinds of cookies used on our Website.
| Strictly necessary | 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. |
| Authentication | These cookies do things such as ensuring that your password works and you stay logged in when you move between pages on the site and help the site to remember details about your visit. They also keep you secure while you are logged in and help to ensure the site looks consistent during your visit. |
| Performance, Statistics, Analytics and Research | These cookies collect information about how you use our site, such as which pages you visit and if you experience any errors, They do not collect anything that could identify you, as it is aggregated data and we only use them to improve how our site works, understand what interests our users, and measure how effective our content is. Our performance coookies include: (a) web analytics to provide information on how our site is used, and (b) error management to help us improve the site by measuring any errors that occur. |
| Functionality | 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 | 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. |
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies in order to help us to:
- Make our Website work as you would expect
- Remember your settings during and between visit
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our Website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
How do we use cookies?
We collect information from you when you visit our Website. Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
When you land on our Website for the first time, you will be shown a cookies banner, which will inform you that we use cookies. In this section, we also give you more information about the cookies we use and how to disable cookies (see below). However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our Website if you do so as disabling cookies may affect some functionality of our Website.
A number of cookies and similar technologies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Others are used to remember you when you return to the Website and will last for longer.
We use these cookies and other technologies on the basis that they are necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or because using them is in our legitimate interests (where we have considered that these are not overridden by your rights), and, in some cases, where you have not objected to their use. Remember you can update your preferences at any time.
We use cookies and/or other similar technologies, such as tracking GIFs, web beacons pixel codes, either alone or in combination with each other to create a unique device ID for our Website’s users.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name | Type | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytical/performance | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as an identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the Galanz UK site analytics reports which we use to measure performance of the Website as well as any associated marketing efforts. | This Cookie is part of Google’s Analytics system and remains on the users system for a period of two years as well as being refreshed for every new visit to the Galanz UK Website. For more information see Google Ads Settings Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Google Privacy Policy |
| _gid | Analytical/performance | This Cookie is associated with Google Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish users by assigning a randomly generated number as an identified across each page, alongside a date and time stamp and is used to calculate visitor, session and time data for the Galanz UK Website. We use this cookie to measure performance of each page on our Website, as well as to track the increase or decrease of traffic on each page from campaigns that we run via our social media channels. | Same as above |
| _gat | Analytical/performance | This cookie isused to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net should Galanz UK run any Website advertising in the Google search engine. | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and remains on a user's system for 1 minute. For more information see Google Ads Settings Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Google Privacy Policy |
| __cfduid | Strictly necessary | It is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis (for example, to identify malicious visitors/bots, filter web traffic, and reduce the chance of blocking legitimate users). | It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application. For more information,see Cloudflare Support |
Can you turn cookies off?
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies,you can adjust your browser settings.
Through your browser settings, you can accept or decline cookies or set your browser to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the Website. You should be aware that you may not be able to use all Website features if you set your browser to disable cookies entirely. You can delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser.
The various browsers provide different procedures to manage your settings. Click on any of the browser links below for instructions:
You can also find instructions how to turn cookies off here. These are external links. Although we have taken all reasonable measures to ensure that its contents are safe, we cannot accept any liability for the information shared on this Website.
Can you turn cookies off?
You can 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 Website.
Changes
After your initial visit to the Website we may change the cookies we use. This cookies policy will always allow you to know who is placing cookies, for what purpose and give you the means to disable them so you should check it from time to time.