Cookies Policy
www.hartmanndirect.co.uk (our site) is a site operated by Paul HARTMANN Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 01523121. Our registered office is at Unit P2 Parklands, Heywood Distribution Park, Pilsworth Road, Heywood, OL10 2TT.
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 also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed onto your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps examine web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.
Essentially, cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does NOT give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies to your preference. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Details of how to decline cookies are set out below.
We use cookies on our website and we assume you are ok with this, otherwise please disable cookies in your browser or navigate away and clear cookies set by the website. By continuing to browse the site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
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.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site.
Analytical/performance cookies: 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 ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information will be used by us and third parties to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find out more information about the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Name |
Organisation |
Purpose |
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CART |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The Association with your shopping cart.
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CATEGORY_INFO |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly. |
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COMPARE |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The items that you have in the Compare Products list. |
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CURRENCY |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Your preferred currency |
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CUSTOMER |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
An encrypted version of your customer id with the store. |
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CUSTOMER_AUTH |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
An indicator if you are currently logged into the store. |
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CUSTOMER_INFO |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to. |
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CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Stores the Customer Segment ID |
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EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not. |
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FRONTEND |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
You session ID on the server. |
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GUEST-VIEW |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Allows guests to edit their orders. |
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LAST_CATEGORY |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The last category you visited. |
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LAST_PRODUCT |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The most recent product you have viewed. |
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NEWMESSAGE |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Indicates whether a new message has been received. |
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NO_CACHE |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache. |
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PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site. |
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POLL |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The ID of any polls you have recently voted in. |
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POLLN |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Information on what polls you have voted on. |
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RECENTLYCOMPARED |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The items that you have recently compared. |
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STF |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
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STORE |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The store view or language you have selected. |
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USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
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VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The products that you have recently viewed. |
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WISHLIST |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist. |
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WISHLIST_CNT |
Paul HARTMANN Limited |
The number of items in your Wishlist. |
Information we collect about you
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; 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.
Turning Off Cookies
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. For more information about how to change your browser settings please see: https://www.aboutcookies.org. Doing so however is likely to limit the functionality of our site.