Website Cookie Policy

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Eland Cables uses cookies in order to make our website work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information on how users are interacting with the site.

A “cookie” is a small piece of information sent by a website server and stored by your browser on your hard drive. You will be asked to accept the cookies settings on your first visit to the website and to reconfirm this acceptance at regular points thereafter in line with the cookie expiry status.

Click here for the Preference Centre to edit your cookie settings

Eland Cables uses the following cookies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These are currently essential to our website operation and are always active – as such we’re not asking your consent for these cookies. These include (but are not limited to) functionality for:

• Application firewalls
• FastQuote basket functionality
• Load-balancing and image display

Name              ASLBSA and ASLBSACORS
Host                www.elandcables.com
Duration         Session
Description     Microsoft Front Door Affinity Cookie. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate server for your location - ensuring availability and performance.

Name              RequestVerificationToken and ASP.NET_SessionId
Host                www.elandcables.com
Duration         Session
Description     These are used on some pages that contain forms. It is required to help prevent unauthorised posting of content to a website. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.

Name               ElcBasket
Host                 www.elandcables.com
Duration          Session
Description      This cookie keeps track of items added to the basket. It gets created only after adding 1 or more items to the basket, and gets deleted after completing an order/removing the last item from your basket.

Name                cookiesPreference
Host                  www.elandcables.com
Duration           1 year
Description       This cookie is used to remember cookie preferences.

Performance Cookies

These are optional but we recommend acceptance in order to make best use of the website and resources on it. In general, these allow Eland Cables to monitor user numbers and track web usage to ensure the website is functioning well. These cookies do not collect personalised data – all data is anonymised. These include (but are not limited to) functionality for:

• Cookie Selection
• Google Analytics
• Geo-specific Language selection

The cookies are a mixture of session (erased when browser is closed) and persistent cookies (remembering previous actions). The duration of each cookie is listed under our Cookie Settings.

We do not share any data collected with Third-Party sites for the purpose of their own sales or marketing purposes. Third-party sites such as Google Analytics are purely for monitoring and improving the function and user experience of our Website.

Name                   _ga
Host                     elandcables.com
Duration              2 years
Description         We use Google Analytics software (Universal Analytics) to collect anonymised information about how you use our site. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements to the site.
Google Analytics stores information about:

• how you got to the site
• the pages you visit on the site and how long you spend on them
• what you click on while you’re visiting the site

Name                  _gid
Host                    elandcables.com
Duration             24 hours
Description        This cookie is also part of Google Analytics (see above)

Name                  _gat
Host                    elandcables.com
Duration             1 minute
Description        This cookie is also part of Google Analytics and is used to throttle (limit) request rate

Name                  geocountrycode
Host                    www.elandcables.com
Duration             Session
Description         This cookie gets used to store where in the world you are visiting from, and displays correct contact information as appropriate

How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the link to the Preference Centre at the top of this page. From here you can then access the cookie preference centre and adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Legal Notice Update

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and new additional information.

More information

For more information on how your data is stored, please see our Privacy Policy and associated GDPR statement.