Cookies Policy
This policy explains how The Bloc (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies. This policy explains how we use cookies when you visit our websites https://the-bloc.co.uk, phone, our mobile, tablet or our other applications (our “Sites).
For further information about your use of our Sites and how that usage is governed please see our Terms and Conditions of Sale and Use and our Privacy Policy.
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Cookies can help to display the information on our Sites in a way that matches your interests. Most major websites use cookies. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes as set out on this page.
What cookies are used on this Site?
The cookies we and our partners use on our Sites are broadly grouped into the following categories:
Essential– Some of the cookies on our Sites are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this could be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account, basket, network management and security. Our cookie preference cookie described in the section “How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?” is also an essential cookie. You may not be able to use our Site without these cookies.
Analytics– We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our Sites. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our Sites or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited our Sites once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our Sites was performing and improve it without these cookies.
User Cookies– We use cookies to improve your experience by remembering your preferences so we know how you like to use our Site. Examples of this would be remembering you so that you are served with the same content or to remember you when you come back to our Site.
Social Sharing – We use third party cookies to allow you to share content directly on the social networking/sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Examples would be if you wanted to “like” or “tweet” about us or our products or services. Please see our “Third Party Cookies” section below for more details.
How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you use our Site. The “Help” menu of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive visit the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Third party cookies
Some of the cookies described in the “What Cookies are used on our Site” section above are stored on your machine by third parties when you use our Site. Third parties may also read cookies on your browser to collect information or to serve content or advertisements to you. We have no control over these cookies or how the third parties use them. They are used to allow that third party to provide a service to us, for example analytics. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see:
Internet Advertising Bureau website at http://www.youronlinechoices.com where you will be able to opt-out of receiving Interest-Based Advertising cookies from some of the third parties listed above; and/or
If you want to know more about how cookies work and how to manage or delete them, visit the World Wide Web Consortium’s website.