Cookie Policy (December 2023)

Thanks for taking the time to read our Cookie Policy. This policy explains what Cookies are, and how we use them on our website.  It also tells you how you can adjust or stop the use of cookies and how this might affect your use of our website.  Like most websites, our website, www.shizl.com uses cookies to improve and enhance your browsing experience.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file of data which a website may put on your computer or device when you first visit a website or page. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive or devices memory. The cookie will help the website to remember your device the next time you visit that website.  In this Cookie Policy we use the term “cookies” to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

What do Cookies do?

There are many actions cookies perform. For example, they can help us to remember your username, your preferences and analyse how well our website is performing.

Certain cookies contain personal information – for example, if you click “remember me” when logging in, a cookie will store your username and other log in details. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use websites, or a user’s general location.

Why do we use cookies on our website?

Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.

What cookies do we use on our website?

We use the following cookies on our website:

  • Essential cookies (also known as strictly necessary cookies). These are cookies that are essential to the operation of our website. It is possible to disable these cookies but if you do so, you may not be able to access key areas of our website and your ability to use of our website will be impacted as a result.
  • Analytical or performance cookies.These cookies allow us to see who is visiting our website, how those users are browsing through our website, what pages they are visiting and for how long, as well as how many people are visiting our website. From this information it is possible for us to determine which parts of our website work well and which parts need improvement. Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from:

http://www.google.com/privacy.html

  • Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies enable us to remember you when you visit our website. If you have any preferred ways of using our website, functionality cookies allow us to remember those preferences too.  This means we can ensure the content on our website is specific to you. For example, functionality cookies allow websites to greet users by name and remember their preferences).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies allow us to keep a record of your visits to our website, including the way you have browsed through our website and any third-party links you have clicked on. We can use this browsing information to make our website more specific to you.

For more information about the specific cookies which we use on our website, please see the table below.

Can you block the cookies on our website?

If you have previously browsed to our website and no longer wish to accept the cookies on our website, you can block those cookies. However, please be aware that some cookies may have already been set. You may delete these cookies at any time via your browser.  A simple internet search using the words “How to delete cookies” will provide you with details on how to block, remove or adjust your cookie preferences.

Please remember, if you choose to block cookies then your browsing experience may be affected, and you may find certain areas of our website do not work properly.

More information about Cookies

Read more about the individual cookies we use and how to recognise them by looking at the table below.

 

 

Description Duration
Google Analytics

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Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

 

1 year 1 month 4 days

 

Google Analytics

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Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.

 

1 year 1 month 4 days

 

 

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