Cookie Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used when you receive emails, visit the Impact Corporation UK website.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored within your internet browser by the websites that you visit. In a similar way to many other websites, Impact Corporation UK uses cookies to understand more about your visit and help us to enhance your experience.
Functions usually performed by a cookie can be achieved by other means, such as by using pixel tags (or web beacons) in emails. Pixel tags track the number of times an email is opened, the email programme that was used to open the email, when the email was read and what browser was used. Pixel tags also collect device and user information such as IP address and the device used, which is then used to measure and enhance email communications.
The impactcorporationuk.com also use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). An API is a type of software used to send information back and forth between a website and a user. APIs are used to make the website more interactive and user-friendly.
Impact Corporation UK use email tracking technologies to create personalised emails and report on the performance of email campaigns. When a user clicks a link or content in an email, we will collect information about the operating system and device used, the country the email was opened in (geolocation) and the email programme used to open the email.
How does impactcorporationuk.com use cookies?
Cookies are used for various aspects of functionality such as keeping track of the items in your shopping bag, learning more about how you arrived at our website and storing your preferences so you don’t have to enter them each time you visit.
Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that our website needs in order to function and if they are not accepted by you, parts of the site won’t be usable. Examples of where these cookies are used include: ensuring that the website pages display correctly to you and determining which language and currency we should use based on your location.
Preference Cookies
These cookies allow us to remember your filter preferences to create a more bespoke and unique online shopping experience for you. If you alter search filters, we will keep your preference for the next time you visit our website.
Statistics Cookies
We use Google Analytics tools to study, and then improve, how customers interact with our website – this is known as website analytics.
Analytics cookies allow us to understand more about how many visitors we have to the website, how many times they visit ImpactcorporationUK.com and how many times a user viewed specific webpages within our site. Although analytics cookies allow us to gather specific information about the pages that you visit and whether you have visited Impactcorporationuk.com multiple times, we cannot use them to find out details such as your name or address.
Marketing and third-party cookies
Aside from setting cookies ourselves, we also allow carefully-selected third parties to set cookies and pixels during your visit to our website. These organisations provide us with information on how you use Impactcorporationuk.com. We use these to promote our newest products and latest offers to you on other websites based on your activity at Impactcorporationuk.com. For example, you may see products that you viewed at Impactcorporationuk.com presented on other websites as you move around the internet.
Third-party cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. Impact Corporation UK is not responsible for the management of third-party cookies and encourages you to contact a third party for information on how to manage your cookie preferences.
For further information about cookies and similar technologies, please visit the Information Commissioner’s webpage; https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-and-similar-technologies.