Cookie Policy
At The Cardboard Box Company (“us” or “we”), we want to ensure that your visit to our website, (the “Website”) is smooth, reliable and as useful to you as possible. Subject to your consent where required by applicable law, we use cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) to help us improve the use and functionality of the Website and to better understand how visitors use the Website and the tools and services offered on it.
What are cookies?
A “cookie” is a small piece of data that may be stored on your computer or mobile device. Cookies serve a number of purposes like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, interests or log in details, and generally improving your experience. We also use cookies on our Website to measure its effectiveness and how visitors use the Website. The use of cookies on the Website allows you to enjoy more seamless visits and more accurately measures your behaviour on the Website.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually prevent accepting cookies by changing your browser settings. Cookies help us give you a better website, by letting us monitor what’s working and what isn’t through site traffic analysis.
Types of Cookies Used on the Website
We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you, although we may combine information with the data we get from the web analytics services we use and their cookies to analyse how you and other people use our Online Services.
Generally our cookies perform up to three different functions:
- Strictly Essential Cookies – To run some parts of our site we set a session cookie. This cookie is used to identify user sessions between page visits. Our site will not work correctly if the cookie cannot be set (for example if you set your internet browser to reject all cookies).
- Google Maps Cookies (Third Party) – Google set a number of cookies on any page that includes a Google Map. While we have no control over the cookies set by Google, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Google Maps users.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies – These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to the website and see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. We use Google Analytics cookies to track anonymous usage statistics and do not collect any personal information that can be used to identify you. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
When you use the Website, we will place these types of Cookies on your device subject to your rights to refuse them as set out in this Cookie Policy.
How to Manage and Disable cookies?
Further information on each cookie can be found under the green COOKIE SETTINGS banner, located in the bottom left corner of your web browser. You are also able to accept or decline each cookie within these settings.
You can also restrict or block cookies at any time using your browser settings. You can learn more on how to remove cookies set on your computer / mobile device via the following link: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
To block Google Analytics cookies specifically, you can install the “Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on” provided by Google.
Further Information on Cookies
For more information on how Google use this information, visit their Privacy Policy (https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/)
For information regarding the updated law on cookies visit the ICO (https://ico.org.uk/)
For more information about how to manage cookies and their uses visit About Cookies (http://www.aboutcookies.org/)
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We can change this Cookie Policy at any time. If we make material changes to the Cookie Policy, we will let you know either by posting the changed Cookie Policy on the Site or by sending you an email.
It’s important that you review the changed Cookie Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changed Cookie Policy, then we cannot continue to provide the Website to you, and your only option is to stop accessing the Website.
Contact Us
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Cookie Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to: privacy@thecardboardbox.co.uk or using the “Contact” section of the Website.
This cookie policy was last reviewed on 16th Jan 2025.