Cookie Policy

 

This notice explains how and why Vending Sense will use your personal information when you use our website or open a client area account on vendingsense.co.uk.

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What are cookies?

Website cookies are small text files stored on your device by websites you visit. They contain information about your interactions with the website and help improve your browsing experience by remembering your preferences, login details, and other settings. Cookies also enable website owners to track visitor behaviour and gather data for analytics, advertising, and personalisation purposes.

 

How do we use cookies?

We utilise traffic log cookies to pinpoint the pages that are frequented on our websites. This allows us to analyse web page traffic data, enhancing our website to better suit the needs of our customers and users. Rest assured, we solely employ this information for statistical analysis purposes, after which it is promptly removed from the system. Overall, cookies aid us in providing an improved website experience by enabling us to track which pages you find valuable and which ones you do not.

It’s important to note that cookies do not grant us access to your computer or any personal information beyond what you choose to share with us. You have the option to accept or decline cookies when visiting our website. While most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can adjust your browser settings to decline them if you prefer. 

 

What types of cookies do we use?

We utilise various types of cookies on our website to enhance your browsing experience and improve our services. These include:

 

Essential cookies: These are necessary for the website to function properly, enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

 

Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and see how visitors move around the site. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find what they are looking for.

 

Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, pre-populate previously submitted form data, and remember your preferences.

 

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.

 

How to manage your cookies

By using our website, you agree to the use of these cookies as described above. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or by opting out of specific types of cookies through our cookie consent banner. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect your browsing experience on our website.

 

Cookie list 

Google Tag Manager

This is a tag management system. Via Google Tag Manager, tags can be integrated centrally via a user interface. Tags are small sections of code that can track activities. Script codes of other tools are integrated via the Google Tag Manager. The Tag Manager allows to control when a particular tag is triggered.

Transfer to third countries: This service may forward the collected data to a different country. Please note that this service might transfer the data to a country without the required data protection standards. Below you can find a list of countries to which the data is being transferred. For more information regarding safeguards please refer to the provider’s privacy policy or contact the provider directly.

Access Google Tag Manager’s privacy policy and cookie policy here.

 

HubSpot

We use cookies provided by HubSpot, a marketing automation platform, to help us manage and improve our marketing efforts. HubSpot cookies allow us to track user interactions on our website, such as page views and form submissions, in order to better understand our audience and tailor our marketing strategies accordingly. These cookies may also be used to provide you with targeted advertising based on your browsing behaviour on our website. By using our website, you consent to the use of HubSpot cookies as described in this policy. You can learn more about how HubSpot uses cookies and manage your cookie preferences by reviewing HubSpot’s privacy policy

 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page. The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP Cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages and interactions with the website. You can learn more about how Google Analytics uses cookies and manage your cookie preferences by reviewing the Google Analytics privacy policy

 

Google Ads

Google Ads is an advertising service. This service can be used to show personalised or non-personalised advertisement to users.

Google Ads data serves several purposes, including advertising, analytics, providing services, and generating statistics. To achieve these, we employ various technologies, primarily cookies and pixels, which are placed in your browser. These technologies help us collect data such as ads viewed, cookie IDs, visit dates and times, device information, geographic locations, IP addresses, search terms, ads displayed, client IDs, impressions, and online identifiers. This data is crucial for enhancing your browsing experience and tailoring our services to better meet your needs.

You can read Google Ads’ privacy policy or cookies policy here.

 

Hotjar

Hotjar cookies are used to help us understand how users interact with the website. This gives us information such as how much time people spend on a page, and what they choose to click on so that we can see what’s working well and what isn’t. From time to time, we also collect qualitative and quantitative data from our website users by the use of surveys on our website via Hotjar, the information users provide through the use of these surveys is stored within Hotjar. Hotjar captures and stores a truncated version of your IP address. It is captured and stored in an anonymized format by suppressing the last octet so your full IP address never reaches Hotjar’s servers and we do not have access to it.

You can review Hotjar’s privacy policy here.

 

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails and advertising about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the data which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

 

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

This privacy policy sets out how Get Vending Sense Group uses and protects any information that you give Vending Sense Group when you use this website.

Vending Sense Group is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, Vending Sense Group Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 20/10/2014.

By using this site you are agreeing to our terms and conditions.