Cookies Policy
General Information about cookies
What are Cookies?
HTTP Cookies (also called web cookie, Internet cookie or browser cookie) are text files containing small amounts of data generated by a website. These files are stored on a user’s device (computer, mobile phone) by your web browser while you are browsing a website. When you visit a website, your computer, web-browser or mobile device downloads these files (cookies).
As described by Wikipedia, cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information. Because webpages are “stateless” (they have no memory), they cannot easily pass information between each other. Therefore, cookies enable to provide this kind of memory for web pages.
Cookies are a specific technology that store information between website visits. They are also used for security purposes, such as when a user logs in to their internet banking app or their webmail. Cookies are used in numerous ways, such as:
- Remembering what is in a shopping basket when shopping for goods online.
- Supporting users to log in to a website.
- Analysing traffic to a website (record user browsing activity, pages visited, .
- Tracking users’ browsing behaviour (clicks on particular areas of the website, visited pages…)
Therefore, the main purpose of HTTP cookies is to remember information about you’re your online behaviour. When you return to this website (after closing it) – or visit a website that uses the same cookie – the website recognizes this cookie and therefore remember your information, like your browsing device, user credentials or preferences.
Types of Cookies
Cookies are used for different purposes, including functionality, performance, advertising, analytics, session, etc… However for clarification and understanding, we make the distinction between the following types of cookies.
Session vs Persistent cookies
Session cookies | Example: · Remember your items in your shopping cart. Stored on the browser’s memory Do not contain an expiration date Expire at the end of a browser session (when the browser is closed) |
Persistent cookies
Also called permanent cookies, stored cookies
| Example: · Store your login information · Remember your language preferences. Stored on user’s device (hard disk) Contain an expiration date (date might vary). |
First-Party vs Third-Party cookies
In the context of cookies, “first” and “third” party refer to the website or domain placing the cookie on the browser’s memory or user’s device.
| First-Party cookies | Set directly by the website the user is visiting |
| Third-Party cookies | Set by a domain other than the one the use is visiting. When the browser (or other software) fetches these elements from other sites, these sites can set cookies as well. Example: · Incorporate elements from other sites (images, social media plugins, advertising…) |
Your Consent about cookies
When you use our website for the first time, you are noticed via a “cookie consent” banner displayed at the bottom of the web page. By clicking on “Accept”, you consent to the use of cookies in our website and the terms of our use of cookies.
As long as you click on “Accept” the first time, you do not have to click again every time you visit our website (except if you delete all your cookie from your browser and computer and you visit our website again).
Use of cookies by Gerrards (Precious Metals) Ltd
Why does Gerrards (Precious Metals) Ltd uses Cookies?
Website like gerrardsbullion.com uses HTTP cookies, a subset of tracking technologies that may record information such as internet domain, host names, internet protocol addresses, browser software and operating system types, clickstream patterns and date and times that our website is accessed.
The use of cookies and other tracking technologies on our website allow us to:
- make some of website functionality work (shopping cart, authentication for the duration of a session, etc…)
- improve our website functionalities and performance and your experience.
- analyse information that does not contain personal information for trends and statistics.
How does Gerrards (Precious Metals) Ltd uses cookies?
Gerrards (Precious Metals) Ltd uses cookies that do not contain data in plain text. All cookies used on gerrardsbullion.com contain hash data for ensuring users and customers’ privacy.
Information Commissioner Office also makes the distinction between “strictly necessary” and “non-necessary cookies”. The cookies used in our website are listed below, based on this categorisation. The expiration age of the cookies listed are approximative.
Please note that we do not have any control over the third-party cookies listed. For more information about the Privacy and Cookie policies of these third-parties, please refer to the links below:
- Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Google Analytics: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/
- Google Maps: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/about/policies/#community-guidelines
- Trading View: https://uk.tradingview.com/privacy-policy/
- Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy.php
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/en/privacy
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Strictly Necessary Cookies | |||||
Title | Cookie name | Type | Expires / Max-Age | Description | |
Cookie Consent notice | Store_noticed{HASH} | Session | Set when you click on the “Accept” button in the Cookie Consent banner. Indicates that you agree with the usage of cookies on our webpages. | ||
Login | Wordpress_logged_in | HTTP only Secure (HTTPS) | session | Stored in our browser and destroyed when you log-out. | |
Shopping cart | Wp_wocommerce_session_{HASH} | HTTP only Secure (HTTPS) | 2 days | Keep track of the items that you include in your shopping cart on our website, as well as remembering your shopping cart if you leave our website and come back later. | |
Woocommerce_number_items_in_cart | Session | ||||
Woocommerce_cart_hash | session | ||||
Google Maps
| OGP OGPC | Third party cookie | 2 months | Use to enable the functionality of the Google Maps API | |
Non-strictly necessary cookies | ||||
Title | Cookie name | Type | Expires / Max-Age | Description |
Google Analytics
| _ga_{HASH} | Third Party cookie | 2 years | Gather information and analyse via Google Analytics how our users interact with our website. |
UULE | Third Party Cookie | 1 day | ||
Google Tracking | NID | Third Party cookie HTTP only | 6 months | Google Tracking cookies This cookie is also used by Google for advertising purposes |
SSID | Third Party cookie HTTP only Secure (HTTPS | 2 years | ||
SIDCC | Third Party cookie | 3 months | ||
CONSENT | Third Party cookie | 20 years | ||
Google Maps, Youtube | APISID | Third Party cookie | 2 years | Measure number and behaviour of Youtube and Google Maps users These cookie are for advertising purposes. |
HSID | Third Party cookie HTTP only | |||
SAPSID | Third Party cookie Secure (HTTPS) | |||
Google / Youtube | OGPC | Third Party cookie | 2 months | |
SEARCH_SAMESITE | Third Party cookie Strict | 6 months | Only accessible to the user visiting that domain. | |
Google Advertising Cookies
| 1P_JAR | Third Party cookie | 1 month | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes |
Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin…) | __unam | Third party cookie | Our website include different buttons that enable you to share our content on social medias. By clicking on these buttons, this cookie might be set on your web-browser. | |
CloudFlare Expiration: 1.5 years | __cfduid | Third party cookie HTTP only Secure (HTTPS) | Set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. | |
WooCommerce | Tk_ai | Third party cookie | session | Used by third-party plugins like WooCommerce or JetPack for analytics. |
Trading View | sp_id.cf1a | Third party cookie | 2 years | Included in the different pages that display the charts of the gold, silver, platinum and palladium prices in different currencies. |
sp_sess.cf1a | Third party cookie | 1 day | ||
_utma | Third party cookie | 2 years | ||
_utmb | Third party cookie | 1 day | ||
_utmc | Third party cookie | Session | ||
_utmt | Third party cookie | 1 day | ||
_utmz | Third party cookie | 1 year | ||
Cookies stored in your computer | ||
Title | Cookie name | Description |
Comments cookies Expire after one year | Comment_author_{HASH} Comment_author_email_{HASH} Comment_author_url_{HASH} | Stored directly in your computer when you publish a comment in a blog post via the comment form. |
Post Like Cookie | Mfn_post_love | Cookie created when you click on the like symbol (not from Facebook, the heart icon) in a post/article page |
Manage cookies on our website
Find out the cookies currently used
You can use the developer tools of your web browser to find out the cookies currently used when you visit different pages on our website.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Notice about disabling cookies on our website
In order to use some parts of our website, you will need to accept cookies. This is because some of the first-party and session cookies used on our website are needed to make the website work properly.
If you decide to withhold consent to our use of cookies, or you subsequently block or delete cookies, you may not be able to access all or part of our website, or some part of the website might not work properly. For instance, if you choose to erase or block cookies in our website, the shopping cart might not save your items, or you might need to re-enter your login details again.
How to disable cookies?
You can opt-out for the use of our cookies at any time. Blocking cookies inhibit websites from directly embedding cookies into your hard disk.
You can block the use of cookies by activating the relevant settings in your browser. You can use the links below to disable cookies based on the web browser that you use :
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- Mozilla Firefox : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-cookies
- Safari (macOS): https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
- Safari (iOS) : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027947/windows-delete-cookies
- Internet Explorer : https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies