In the spirit of fair and transparent processing of personal data, this policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies and/or other analytics tools. This cookie policy applies to any Alpha 3 Manufacturing Ltd product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference.
What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer or other mobile or handheld device (such as smart ‘phones or ‘tablets’) when you visit certain web pages.
Cookies are essential to the effective operation of our website and to enable you to interact with us online. The information collected by cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
When does Alpha 3 Manufacturing Ltd place cookies?
We use cookies on our sites (such as Google Analytics) and mobile applications. Any browser visiting these sites will receive cookies from us.
What do cookies do?
Cookies do lots of different things, like letting you navigate between pages effectively, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website.
If our website did not use cookies, you would appear to be a new visitor every time you moved to a different webpage.
Some other examples of what cookies can do include:
- recording your preferences such as country, language and timezone so you don’t have to keep setting them.
- recording the areas and pages of our website that you have visited so that we can use this information to help us improve the flow and content delivery of our website to ensure that it is easy to use and so we can improve the services we provide to our visitors.
Are cookies safe?
Yes cookies are safe. Cookies do not harm your computer, they do not contain any information that could be used by others to identify you personally and they do not contain any confidential information, such as your email address.
What are the different types of cookies used by Alpha 3 Manufacturing Ltd?
At Alpha 3 Manufacturing Ltd we have categorised the cookies we use into four different types:
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Some cookies are strictly necessary to allow you to move about the website easily or to provide you with certain features you have requested, such as identifying you as being logged onto the site.
2. Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor, although they may collect the IP address of the device used to access the site. All information collected is only used to help us understand how our visitors use our website, what interests our users, and to measure how effective our pages are so that we can improve how we present our content to you. These cookies help to improve the performance of the website, providing a better experience for you.
3. Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies are used to remember settings about choices you’ve made on the website such as the language preference you’ve chosen for the site and allow us to provide services you’ve asked to use and to improve your visit.
4. Targeting and Advertising Cookies
Targeting and advertising cookies are used to work out what advertising might be most relevant to you based on the areas you look at on our website.
Third Party Cookies
Some of the cookies used on our website are set by third party organisations that we use for different services. We use Google Analytics, Google Translate and Click4Assistance. We may also sometimes embed video or other content from websites such as YouTube and these sites may set their own cookies. Further details on the third party cookies we use are included on the list of cookies below we use on our site and you can check the relevant third party’s website for more information about their cookie policy.
Can you turn cookies off?
We use cookies to make our website easier to use and so that we can provide the best possible service. Cookies are an essential part of how our website works, and to ensure it works properly for you, we recommend that they are enabled. If you disable cookies, some parts of the website may not work and it may also stop you from saving customised settings like login information.
How to manage cookie settings via your browser:
Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change your browser settings to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance. If you would prefer us not to store cookies on your device, use the appropriate browser instructions below to change your settings.
Please note, if you use a different device, different account on your device or a different browser, you will need to set your preference for them separately. The settings you have chosen today will only apply to the device and browser you are using now.
You can also delete any existing cookies from your browser’s cache by using the settings available in your web browser. However, clearing the cache will mean that you need to reapply any cookie settings previously selected when revisiting our website in the future.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and 9.0
Choose the menu ‘Tools’ (or alternatively the Cog icon in Internet Explorer 9.0) and then ‘Internet Options’. Click the ‘Privacy’ tab. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings.
For more specialised cookie settings click on ‘Advanced’, check the 'Override cookie handling' button and modify the settings to suit your requirements.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Choose the menu ‘Tools’ and then ‘Internet Options’. Click the ‘Privacy’ tab. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings.
The default setting is medium and the menu allows you to select the level of "filtering" on the basis of (a) the source of the cookie and (b) whether the source has a privacy policy.
For more specialised cookie settings click on ‘Advanced’.
For Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1
Choose the menu ‘Tools’ then ‘Options’. Click on the icon ‘Privacy’. Under the ‘History’ section select the ‘Use custom settings for history’ option from the drop down menu and then choose your preferred cookie settings.
Google Chrome 21
Click the Wrench icon on the browser toolbar. Select ‘Settings’. Click ‘Show advanced settings’ at the bottom of the page. In the ‘Privacy’ section, click the ‘Content settings’ button. In the Cookies section choose your preferred settings.
Safari 5.1 (OS X Lion)
Choose menu item ‘Safari’ and select ‘Preferences’. Click on the menu item ‘Privacy’ and choose your preferred settings.
Safari 5.1 (Windows)
Select the Cog icon on the browser toolbar and then select ‘Preferences’. Click on the menu item ‘Privacy’ and choose your preferred settings.
LIST OF COOKIES AND ANALYTICS TOOLS USED ON OUR WEBSITES
The following are the cookies and analytics tools that may be used when you visit this website:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Cookie Name - Click4Assistance
Purpose - Allows access to Live Chat feature when requested. (Cookies are activated upon request of this service.)
Cookie Name - YouTube
Purpose - Allows access to view embedded videos. (Cookies are activated upon request of this service.)
Functionality Cookies
Cookie Name – Google Translate
Purpose – Retain language preferences
Analytics Tools
Cookie Name – Google Analytics
Purpose – Stores tracking information such as the traffic source, medium, campaign name, referrals and segmentation. List is not comprehensive.