Last updated 22nd October 2020
Thank you for using shop.ourlocalonline.com, shop.ourlocalonline.com is operated by Our Local Online Ltd (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales (registration number 12343862) and our registered office is at 15 Orchard Avenue, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 8UB, United Kingdom.
Our web pages use “cookies”. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we place on your computer or mobile device if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our website. Cookies may be set either by the website (“first party cookies”), or by a third party website (“third party cookies”).
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies ?
- Keeping you signed in during a particular visit to our website. We use persistent cookie to identify you over a long period of time. (For example, if you asked us to keep you signed in, we would use a persistent cookie for that purpose.) Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period of time specified in the cookie or until you remove them through the browser.
- We use both first and third party cookies to operate, understand and improve our services, specifically:
- We use cookies to monitor login, session and status data. This allows us to know, for example, whether you are logged in.
- We use cookies to recognise your browser and remember your preferences.
- We use cookies to understand your use of shop.ourlocalonline.com and how we can improve our offerings. For example, we use cookies to track whether you open emails we send you.
- We use cookies to personalise your use of our services, including to serve you personalised advertising that may better suit your needs.
- We use cookies to keep the Services safe, including detecting and preventing fraud and conducting investigations.
What types of cookies do we use ?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
- Functionality – we use these cookies so that we recognise you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
- Advertising – we use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. shop.ourlocalonline.com sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
How do we use 3rd party cookies ?
We use a number of third party cookies, some of which depend on how you use our Services. These cookies, the third parties that set them, the purposes of such cookies and the means by which you can opt-out, are listed in below. In general, the following types of third party cookies may be set when you use our service:
- If you register or sign in using Facebook, a Facebook cookie is set to help track your login.
- We use Google Analytics, including Google Analytics cookies, to collect anonymous traffic data to help us analyse how members and visitors access and use shop.ourlocalonline.com, and for other Analytics services relating to website activity and internet usage. Learn about how Google uses data from Google Analytics.
- The Services allow third party advertising companies that we work with to use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about how you use shop.ourlocalonline.com and other sites and services over time. These companies use the information they collect to show you ads they believe will be relevant to you on shop.ourlocalonline.com and elsewhere, and to measure how the ads perform.
- Third-party cookies from content shared by members: shop.ourlocalonline.com members may share content that originates from a third-party website or service, and that third-party website or service may set its own cookies when you interact with that content. For example, if a member posts a video from YouTube, YouTube may set a cookie when you click to watch the video.
