n common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called ‘cookies’ on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and they are used to record how you navigate this website on each visit.
Cookies are small text files which websites, and sometimes emails, place on your device. They provide useful information to companies, which helps in all sorts of ways. For you, it means you can use our site more efficiently and save time by not having to re-enter your details each time you visit. For us, cookies help us to analyse how our customers use our website so we can make improvements.
Our cookies are used to enable us to develop our website to reflect our customers interests and by noting who has seen which pages, properties and advertisements (including click through from emails), how frequently particular pages are visited and determining the most popular areas of our website. We may use cookies to enrich your experience of using the website by allowing us to tailor what you see to what we have learned about your preferences during your visits to the site.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored. Please note, if you do turn cookies off this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your visitor experience.
For further information on cookies and how to switch them off see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookie Policy
At Acer Pharmacy, we understand that our customer’s privacy is very important. To allow you to make an informed decision about cookies, please read the following information about cookies and their use.
We do use cookies on our site to help make your visits more effective so we’d like to explain more about how and why we use them. A cookie cannot read data from your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most websites.
We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be posted on our site and will take effect as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use our site after any changes are posted you are indicating your acceptance of those changes.
What are cookies?
Cookies are very small data files that are stored on your computer during and after visiting a website or sometimes by emails. They are generally used to enhance the customer experience on a website, for example; remembering your preferences on a particular site and recording what is in your shopping basket as you browse. For you, it means you can use the site more efficiently and save time by not having to re-enter your details each time you visit. For us, cookies help us to analyse how our customers interact with our website so we can make improvements.
They can also be used by the companies who own the website, in order to provide anonymous data to analyse the use of their website, so that advertising can be more specific and relevant to the user.
Certain cookies are necessary in order for you to use our websites, whereas other cookies while not essential do help to improve your experience while using our site. You can delete the cookies via your browser at any time if you wish to, please see below for more information on how to do this, but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our site.
Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through our website, such as analytics. These third-parties are responsible for the cookies they set on our website and we have no control over them.
How does Acer Pharmacy use cookies?
We use what are known as ‘browser’ cookies on our site. These are anonymous and are used by us to analyse the use of our site with Google Analytics, which will enable us to make improvements that will benefit your future customer experiences.
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse our site, you are agreeing to us using cookies.
Protecting our customers and their information is very important to us. This means that the cookies on our site will not collect your personal information. However, we do use cookies on our site to help make your visits more effective, so we’d like to explain more about how and why we use them. A cookie cannot read information from your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. Using cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites.
We can change the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be displayed on our site and will take effect straight away. If you continue to use our site after any changes are made, you are considered to accept those changes.
We use three types of cookies on our site.
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Session Cookies:
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These are deleted after each visit. They do not store any personal information and are deleted when you close your web browser.
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Permanent Cookies:
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These remain on your device after you have closed your browser. These cookies allow us to recognise you and remember your preferences next time you visit our site.
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Third-Party Cookies:
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Third-party cookies that are used by our approved business partners.
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Certain cookies are necessary for you to use our site. Other cookies are not essential but do help to improve your experience while using our site. You can delete the cookies from your browser at any time if you want to (see below for more information on how to do this), but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our site.
Our cookies fall into the following categories.
- Strictly Necessary Cookies:
- These are cookies that are needed for our site to work properly. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of our site. These will usually be session cookies (see above). These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services.Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. We may also collect details about the type of device you use e.g are you using an Apple or a Samsung device); ; a unique device identifier (for example, your device’s IMEI number or the MAC address of the device’s wireless network interface); network information (e.g are you on the Vodafone network or BT Broadband) your operating system; your IP address and HTTP referrer information; your login information; the browser you are using and what version it is e.g. are you using the Chrome or Safari browser?); and your time zone setting(e.g. GMT, EST). This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
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Analytical/Performance Cookies:
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These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site, and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works (for example, by making sure that users can easily find what they are looking for). We use cookies to produce visitor statistics such as:
- how many people have visited our site;
- how visitors reached our site;
- what type of technology visitors are using (for example, Mac or Windows), which helps us to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies;
- how long visitors spend on our site;
- what pages visitors look at; and so on.
This helps us to continuously improve our site.
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Functionality Cookies:
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These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This means that you do not need to log in each time you visit our site. These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences. They allow you to navigate our site efficiently and perform certain functions to help personalise our site to you. Of these, session cookies help to memorise or bookmark your activity on our site to allow you to easily pick up browsing from where you left off, as well as other important functions.
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Tracking Cookies:
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These are used to help store your preferences for the next time you visit our site. These are anonymous and are used by us to analyse the use of our site with Google Analytics, which will enable us to make improvements that will benefit your future customer experiences. We also use other tracking technologies like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking beacons” or “clear gifs”) and local storage. These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our website or opened an email that we have sent them.
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Targeting Cookies:
- These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We and third parties use this information to make our site, and the advertising on it, more relevant to you. These cookies record your visit to our website including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); the different types of services/products you viewed or searched for and page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests, analyse usage and respond to any queries or difficulties you have using the site. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Advertisements displayed on our site may be provided through an advertising-management company. When you view a web page that contains advertising provided by an advertising-management company, that company may place a cookie on, or collect a cookie from, your device (if you have enabled cookies). We use cookies to help us show adverts to you on other organisation’s websites.
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, which we have no control over. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
How to block and delete cookies
All cookies can be deleted via your web browser.
You can block cookies from any website through your browser settings.
If you share a computer with other users, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users. The Help function in your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information about how to change your browser settings, go to www.aboutcookies.org. However, doing so is likely to limit the functions of our site. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see the manual for your phone.
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-nz/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy
- Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org, www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Please note that by deleting our cookies, or disabling future cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
