Cookies are harmless, small text files sent from a website and stored in the user’s web browser while a user is browsing a website. They don’t store any sensitive or personal information such as your name or address..

When users visit the same website again, the browser sends cookies back to the website allowing the website to recognise the user and remember personalised user details or preferences.

There are four types of cookie that may be used during your visit to our Website:-

• Strictly Necessary Cookies - 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 or use a shopping cart. Without these cookies, the site would forget which items you placed in your shopping cart and you wouldn't be able to buy anything.
• Analytical / Performance Cookies – They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Persistent Cookies - These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content your preferences. So, if the last time you visited, you decided that you wanted to shop the UK site in English and see prices in £s, that's what we'll show you. These cookies remain on your browser until they expire automatically after a set time period, unless you delete them yourself.

• 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. We may also share this information with third parties for the purpose to advertise to you on other sites, these partners will use the cookies as set out in this policy and at all times this data shall remain fully anonymous and specific to your browsing device. Using cookies for this purpose limits the number of times you see an advertisement as well as helping us measure the effectiveness of any advertising campaign.

You can enable, disable or delete cookies within the settings on your browser. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” menu).

• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari

Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser; you will need to do this yourself from within your browser by choosing the option to delete cookies. If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.

If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) please note that you may not be able to access all or parts of the Alan Paine site.

If you have any questions on our cookie policy please contact us by email at privacypolicy@alanpaine.co.uk; or in writing to Alan Paine; Unit 4a Hamilton Way; Oakham Business Park; Mansfield; Nottinghamshire; England; NG18 5BU.

Or you visit the following website for more information on cookies https://www.aboutcookies.org/

From time to time, we will be required to update our Cookie Policy. The most current version of the Cookie Policy is always available on our website here, at https://www.alanpaine.co.uk/cookie-policy.

Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes. The Cookie Policy was last updated in May 2018.