Website Cookies Policy
Introduction
This page sets out the cookie policy of The Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence Ltd (CEME Ltd) and explains how we use cookies on our website. By using our website (ceme.co.uk), you acknowledge your acceptance of the provisions in this policy. We may amend our cookie policy at any time, and all changes will be made on this page. The changes will take effect once they have been posted on the website. Therefore, you should review these terms on a regular basis. By continuing to use the website after the posting of such changes, you will be deemed to have accepted those changes.
How We Use Cookies
We want to ensure that your use of our website is user-friendly, useful, and reliable. We use cookies to improve our services for you. For example, at CEME we use cookies relating to Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. This generates statistical and other information about website use, which helps us make informed decisions about new features and improvements. The information generated is used to create internal reports about the use of the website, and may be stored by Google Analytics for then time frames noted in the table below.
What is a cookie?
This term refers to then common practise of storing small amounts of information known as Cookies on your computer or other device, such as your mobile phone relating to your use of this website. Cookies are small files given to your browser by a website, which may be stored as text files (letters and numbers) in the cookie directory of your device. They do not damage your device. We do not use these files to identify you personally, in normal use of the website these cookies do not hold any personally identifiable data, however, when interacting with some features such as submitting a contact form, a cookie may temporarily store the information you submit for your convenience. Cookies are not programmes and cannot collect information from your device.
Types of Cookies Used on our Website
Based on our recent audit, our website utilizes five first-party cookies. These fall into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: We use two strictly necessary cookies. These are essential for supporting the website’s security features and providing protection against malicious visitors.
- Performance Cookies: We use two performance cookies. These distinguish unique users and are used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports.
- Targeting Cookies: We use one targeting cookie. This is used for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites.
You can find more information about the individual cookies the reasons why we use them and their expiration timeframe in the table below.
| Cookie | Category | Expiration | Description & Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cf_bm | Strictly Necessary (First-party) | 29 minutes 52 seconds | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial in order to make valid reports on the users of their website. |
| cf_clearance | Strictly Necessary (First-party) | 1 year | This cookie is used by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic and override any security restrictions based on the visitor’s IP address. It is essential for supporting Our website’s security features. |
| _ga | Performance (First-party) | 1 year 1 month | Associated with Google Universal Analytics, this cookie distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It calculates visitor, session, and campaign data for analytics reports. |
| _ga_CQC4H1SR1W | Performance (First-party) | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state, allowing our reports to distinguish between first time and repeat visitors |
| _gcl_au | Targeting (First-party) | 2 months 4 weeks | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
(Note: The site also uses one piece of session storage, wpEmojiSettingsSupports, which is categorized as Strictly Necessary. This activates a feature that allows Emoji support on the website in a secure manner.)
Browser settings
Our website may send cookie data to your browser, which may save it on your devices’ internal hard drive disk, if your browser’s preferences allow it to do so. You do not have to accept cookies and you can change the settings within your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, reject cookies from certain websites, or notify you if a site is requesting to set a cookie. You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer, although this may have a negative effect on your user experience when navigating Our website or that of other organisations. Please see your browser’s help documentation for instructions on cookies and site data.
Contact CEME
If you want to contact CEME with any questions, comments, or complaints about how we collect, use, or retain Cookies, please contact us via our contact form or email us at info@ceme.co.uk. For more information on privacy and how we use data you provide to us, please read our Privacy Policy.
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