Cookies Policy

1 - WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small blocks of data placed on your devices when you visit and browse our website.

2 - WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF COOKIES?

Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the functionality of our website and to enable you to view our content and interact with our website. For instance, cookies that allow you to view content on different web pages on our Website are “strictly necessary”. You cannot disable strictly necessary cookies.
Statistical cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze our website visitor’s behavior on our website, carry out analysis and reporting activities. For instance, these cookies collect data about the web pages you visit on our website, your clicks, and the timestamps of your visits to our website.
Marketing & targeting cookies: These cookies allow us and our advertising partners to track you across different websites and platforms and to analyze your browsing activity so that we can measure the effectiveness of our ads and display the most relevant ads to you both on our website and on third-party platforms.

3 - WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU BY USING COOKIES?

When we use cookies, we collect the following types of personal data about you:
Timestamp of your visits to our website
Your device’s model, operating system, browsing settings, language preferences
Your device ID
Your IP address
Your geolocation data (Country or region from which you access our website)
Information about how you browse our website, such as the links you click, how much time you spend on each page, referral links

4 - WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO COLLECT AND PROCESS PERSONAL DATA VIA COOKIES?

Under the UK GDPR and the PECR, we must rely on a legal basis to justify the use of cookies and similar tools on our website.
The table below shows the legal basis we rely on for each category of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies Legitimate interests under article 6.1.f of the UK GDPR Statistical cookies We rely on your consent under Article 6.1.a of the GDPR Marketing & Advertising cookies We rely on your consent under Article 6.1.a of the GDPR  

5 - PURPOSES FOR THE USE OF COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• To ensure and maintain the safety and integrity of our website
• To provide our website’s core functionalities, our services, and our content to our website visitors and customers
• To analyze our website visitors’ browsing activity and behavior
• To improve our website, content, and services
• To measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns
• To show you relevant ads
• For retargeting ads to you
• For remarketing

6 - NOTICE ABOUT GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use the google analytics tool on our website to understand how our website visitors browse through our website, to measure user engagement, and to improve our content and services.
Google Analytics is activated only after you give consent through our cookies banner and it may collect the following categories of personal data:
Your geographic location
Your interactions on our website
The timestamp of your visits to our website
Your operating system
Your browser type and browser settings
For more detailed information, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

7 - HOW TO REJECT COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE

When you visit our website, you will be presented with the cookies banner, which enables you to configure your preferences for various categories of cookies on our website.
You can consent to or reject cookies by visiting this banner on our website.

8 - COOKIES AND THIRD-PARTY TOOLS WE USE

Marketing cookies

1. Cookie name: __zlcmid
   Provider: energyperformancecertificates.co.uk
   Purpose: Preserves users states across page requests.
2. Cookie Name: ads/ga-audiences
   Provider: Google
   Purpose: To store information for remarketing purposes
3. Cookie name: initialTrafficSource
   Provider: https://energyperformancecertificates.co.uk/
   Purpose: Registers how the user has reached the website to enable pay-out of referral commission fees to partners.
4. Cookie name: Optimizely_data$$first_session
   Provider: optimizely.com
   Purpose: Targeted advertising
5. Cookie name: zte#
   Provider: Co.uk
   Purpose: Saves a Zopim Live Chat ID that recognizes a device between visits during a chat session
6. Cookie name: _ga
   Provider: Co.uk
   Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.