Cookie Policy


  1. The Expanded Metal Company Limited’s Cookie Policy
    1. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
    2. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
    3. We use the following cookies:
      1. Strictly necessary cookies.These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
      2. Analytical cookies.These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
      3. Functionality cookies.These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
      4. Targeting cookies.These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
    4. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
      Cookie Title Cookie Name Purpose More information
      AEC This cookie is used to detect spam, fraud and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads. Expiry: 6 months
      Strictly Necessary
      Cookie
      DV This cookie is used to provide ad delivery and retargeting. Expiry: 1 day
      Targeting Cookie
      NID This cookie is used to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to have shown on a search results page and whether you want to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. Expiry: 6 months
      Functionality Cookie
      PHPSESSID This cookie is used to provide functions across pages. Expiry: Session
      Functionality Cookie
      PREF This cookie is used to store information such as your preferred page configuration. Expiry: 8 months
      Functionality Cookie
      SOCS This cookie is used to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. Expiry: 13 months Functionality Cookie
      VISITOR_INFO1_ LIVE This cookie is used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a website user’s identity, store and track interaction. Expiry: 6 months Targeting Cookie
      VISITOR_PRIVACY_ METADATA This cookie is used to store the website user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. Expiry: 6 months Strictly Necessary Cookie
      YSC This cookie is used to store and track interactions. Expiry: Session Targeting Cookie
      _Secure-ROLLOUT_ TOKEN This cookie is used to register you with a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube you have seen. Expiry: 1 day Targeting Cookie
      id    
      _GRECAPTCHA This cookie is used to provide spam protection. Expiry: 6 months
      Functionality Cookie
      __cf_bm This cookie is used to read and filter requests from bots. Expiry: 30 minutes
      Functionality Cookie
      __hssc This cookie is used to store anonymised statistics. Expiry: 30 minutes
      Functionality Cookie
      __hssrc This cookie is used to store a unique session ID. Expiry: Session
      Analytical Cookie
      __hstc This cookie is used to store time of visit. Expiry: 13 months
      Targeting Cookie
      _cfuvid This cookie is used to distinguish a website user from other website users. Expiry: Session
      Strictly Necessary
      Cookie
      _ga This cookie is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the website’s analytics report. Expiry: 1 year, 1 month
      and 4 days
      Analytical Cookie
      _ga_E82RG7E7 JX This cookie is used to store and count pageviews. Expiry: 1 year
      Analytical Cookie
      _gat_gtag_UA_4 1281522_1 This cookie is used to store a unique user ID. Expiry: 1 minute
      Analytical Cookie
      _gid This cookie is used to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the website user uses the website. Expiry: 1 day
      Analytical
      form_key This cookie is used as a security measure to append a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from cross-site request forgery. Expiry: session
      Strictly Necessary
      Cookie hubspotuk This cookie is used to allow the website to obtain data on website visitor for statistical purposes. Expiry: 6 months
      Functionality Cookie
      mage-cache-sessid This cookie is used to determine when to clean local storage in the browser after session expiry. Expiry: session
      Functionality Cookie
      mage-cache-storage This cookie is used to determine when to clean local storage in the browser after session expiry. Expiry: session
      Functionality Cookie
      mage-cache-storagesection-invalidation This cookie forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. Expiry: session
      Functionality Cookie
      mage-messages This cookie is used to track error messages and other notifications that are shown to you, such as the cookie consent message and various error messages. Expiry: 1 day
      Functionality Cookie.
      messagesUtk This cookie is used to store browser details and performed actions on the website. Expiry: 13 months
      Functionality Cookie
      product_data_ storage This cookie is used to store product information. Expiry: Persistent.
      Functionality Cookie
      recently_compared_ product This cookie is used to store the information of recently compared products. Expiry: 1 day
      Functionality Cookie
      recently_compared_ product_previous This cookie is used to store the information of recently compared products. Expiry: Session
      Functionality Cookie
      recently_viewed_ product This cookie is used to store the information of recently viewed products. Expiry: Session
      Functionality Cookie
      recently_viewed_ product_previous This cookie is used to store the information of recently viewed products. Expiry: Session
      Functionality Cookie
    5. Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
    6. You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):
      1. Strictly essential cookies Always Active
      2. Analytical or performance cookies OFF
      3. Functionality cookies OFF
      4. Targeting cookies OFF
    7. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
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