For almost any modern website to work properly, it needs to collect certain basic information on its users. To do this, a site will create files known as cookies – which are small text files – on its users’ computers. These cookies are designed to allow the website to recognise its users on subsequent visits, or to authorise other designated websites to recognise these users for a particular purpose. Cookies do a lot of different jobs which make your experience of the Internet much smoother and more interactive. For instance, they are used to remember your preferences on sites you visit often, to remember your user ID and the contents of your shopping baskets, and to help you navigate between pages more efficiently. They also help ensure that the advertisements that you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Much, though not all, of the data that they collect is anonymous, though some of it is designed to detect browsing patterns and approximate geographical location to improve user experience. Information collected by cookies is not personally identifiable.

Labman collects a number of cookies from our users for various reasons, not least to track our own performance – but also to let us serve you content tailored to your own specifications, hopefully improving your overall experience of the site.

We do our utmost to respect users’ privacy. We only use cookies to monitor and improve our own services.

We believe that your experience of the site would be adversely affected if you opted out of the cookies we use.

There are two types of cookie, which can be subdivided into different functions:

Persistent cookies remain on a user’s device for a set period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies are temporary. They allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

‘Strictly necessary’ cookies are essential used to navigate around a website and use its features. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to use basic services like registration or shopping baskets. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet. Labman uses ‘strictly necessary’ cookies to set unique identifiers for each unique visitor, so site numbers can be analysed.

‘Performance’ cookies collect anonymous data for statistical purposes on how visitors use a website, they don’t contain personal information, and are used to improve your user experience of a website. 

Labman use ‘performance’ cookies to gather data about visits to the Website, including numbers of visitors and visits, length of time spent on the site, pages clicked on or where visitors have come from.

Information supplied by ‘performance’ cookies helps us to understand how you use the Website; for example, whether or not you have visited before, what you looked at or clicked on and how you found us. We can then use this data to help improve our services. We generally use independent analytics companies (such as Google Analytics) to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set by a third party company (third party cookies).

If you have any questions or concerns regarding Labman’s use of cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer:

Data Protection Officer

Labman Automation Ltd
Seamer Hill
Stokesley
North Yorkshire
TS9 5NQ
UK

Email the Data Protection Officer ([email protected])