Our Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are very small pieces of information that are created and stored on your computer, smart phone or tablet when you enter a website. On the Plumbs website, we use cookies to improve and speed up your browsing experience by discovering what type of content, images, offers and incentives you best prefer.
Cookies are perfectly safe for your device and will not store personal information. Most websites use cookies for the reasons mentioned above, but if you prefer to disable cookies on your device please view our 'Managing Cookies' section below, which will explain how to disable them.
Use of cookies by Plumbs
We use cookies on the Plumbs website to collect information about how visitors use the website and to collect standard analytics to gather data to enhance the performance of our website. This is important to us as we want to improve the visitor journey when you browse our website and ensure that it is as user friendly as possible.
Please see below a list of all cookies we use along with an explanation about them:
- Analytics Cookies
Cookies used by Google Analytics: __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz
Cookies used by Google Web Optimiser: __utmx,__utmxx
Google Analytics/Web Optimiser use cookies to collect data that we analyse to help us improve customer experience on the Plumbs website. The cookies provide important information such as the number of visitors and the time spent on specific pages and it can also help identify where there might be errors on the website. The information collected through these cookies do not identify people, they are defined themselves by a combination of a computer, a user account, and a browser. Google Analytics only uses 1st party cookies which means that all of the information collected will stay in the Plumbs domain, information will not be passed to 3rd parties.
- Third Party Cookies
Cookies used by Smart Survey: SSurvey27870, ASPSESSIONIDSCTTATTT, gs_u
These cookies are only stored when you have requested a visit and then given the option to complete a survey. They are used to notify the software we use to conduct the survey that you have completed it and to stop you from completing it multiple times.
Cookies used by AddThis: __atuvc, uid, uvc, psc, uit, ssh, sshs, ssc, uid, uvc, psc
AddThis cookies allow users to share content via Social Networking websites and email. When we provide links to third party services you find useful, they may place a cookie on your device to make their service easier to use.
Cookies used by YouTube: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, PREF
These YouTube cookies are used by YouTube to store user preferences when viewing pages containing video content.
Cookies used by Google Adwords: id
3rd party cookies are used to measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns though Google Adwords for Plumbs.
- Functionality Cookies
Cookies used by Plumbs.co.uk: PHPSESSID, userTrack
These are basic session cookies used by Plumbs which makes the site work properly. It saves a session identifier randomly generated to keep track of your session as you move from one page to the next in order to remember selections or preferences made during the visit.
Managing Your Cookies
Internet browsers allow you to manage your cookies. You can set your devices to accept all cookies, to let you know when a cookie has been set, or never to receive cookies.
Each browser works in a different way: use the ‘Help’ menu in your browser to find out to change your cookie preferences. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you should refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that disabling cookies completely means that certain personalised features will not then be provided to you and therefore may not be able to make full use of all of our website’s features.
To learn more about cookies, how to manage them and how to opt-out of using them click here - http://www.aboutcookies.org/
For more information about cookies set by Google (including YouTube) and how to opt-out please click here - Google's Cookie & Privacy Policy's
For more information about cookies set by AddThis and how to opt-out please click here - http://www.addthis.com/privacy
