Aston & Williams (“us”, “we”, “Aston & Williams” or “our”) uses cookies on aston-williams.com (the “Site”). By using the Site, you consent to the use of cookies.

 

Our Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third ­parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Site, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

 

WHAT ARE COOKIES

 

As is common practice with almost all professional websites Aston & Williams use cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience on the site. Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Site or a third­ party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you.

 

Cookies can be “persistent” (meaning they remain after your visit to assist with future visits) or “session” cookies (only kept for the time of your single visit).

 

This page describes what information they gather, how we use the information and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

 

For more general information on cookies see http://www.aboutcookies.org/

 

HOW WE USE COOKIES

 

When you use and access the Site, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

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We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Site, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioural advertising.

 

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

 

• Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

• Third­ party cookies. In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third ­parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Site, display embedded content deliver advertisements on and through the Site, allow for interaction with social platforms and so on.

 

DISABLING OR CONTROLLING COOKIES

 

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the Site.

 

To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org. For more details on managing advertising cookies visit youronlinechoices.eu (EU based), or aboutads.info (US based).

 

THE COOKIES WE SET

 

The Site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

 

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

 

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

 

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Google Analytics

 

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This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

 

The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. Others are deleted 6 months, 30 minutes and the moment you close your browser.

 

Google’s Privacy Policy

 

SOCIAL ADVERTISING (X, LINKEDIN, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK)

 

These cookies allow us to track the performance of our digital marketing activities with social networks including re-marketing. This allows us to inform, optimise, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website.

 

LinkedIn Privacy Policy

X's Privacy Policy

Google’s Privacy Policy

Facebook Privacy Policy

 

SOCIAL MEDIA COOKIES (X, LINKEDIN, FACEBOOK)

 

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, X, LinkedIn, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

 

EMBEDDED CONTENT (INCLUDES VIMEO/YOUTUBE)

 

We embed content from third parties who will occasionally use cookies to optimise the user experience of the content.

 

There are some Vimeo cookies that expire 10 years after first viewing a Vimeo video while most of them expire between a few days for up to two years after the last viewing of a Vimeo video. Most of the YouTube cookies expire 10 years after your last visit to a page containing a YouTube video, although some expire sooner.

 

Vimeo Privacy Policy

YouTube’s Privacy Policy

 

MORE INFORMATION

 

We hope this policy helps to clarify how we use Cookies to enhance your experience on the Site and the effectiveness of our campaigns. If you need any more information please contact us. 

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