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Cookie Policy

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 allows us to improve our site.

Definition

A “cookie” is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can then tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Why do we use cookies?

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 in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

What type of cookies do we use on our website?

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies 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.
  • Analytical or performance cookies 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.
  • Functionality cookies 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).
  • Targeting 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. We will not share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Type

Cookie Name

Purpose More information
Opt-In CookieIf you chose to accept cookies, we then use a cookie to record your acceptance of the use of cookies on our site.  We also use cookies to test if your browser is set to allow cookies. 
Forms related cookieWhen you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. 

Analytical or performance cookie:

Google Analytics

This site uses ‘Google Analytics’ which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

This enables us to analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. 

We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes. The data we are provided with is anonymised and does not contain any of your personal information.

Type: Third-party

Expiry: Persistent

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Analytical or performance cookie:

Who is visiting

This site uses ‘Who is Visiting’. ‘Who is Visiting’ obtains information regarding activities of visitors to our website (www.medicapackaging.com). When a business IP address* visits our website we are provided with the following information: 

  • Pages accessed
  • Time of Visit
  • Name of the owner of the IP Address
  • Reverse domain of the IP Address
  • Referring site, application or service, including the relevant search queries that led the individual to our website
  • Browser information
  • Operating system information
  • Device information (e.g. Mobile operating system, Screen size)
  • Demographic information (e.g. Country, County, Postcode, Address)

We use the data provided by ‘Who is Visiting’ for Sales and Marketing purposes including generation of leads and statistical analysis.

*Please note ‘Who is Visiting’ only provides data relating to businesses and therefore no personal data is processed.

For more information, please visit the ‘Who is Visiting’ website.

Third parties 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google Analytics
  • Who is Visiting

Giving/ updating your Consent

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, please be aware that this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

When you first access our website you are asked to select your preferences or accept all.

Please note, 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.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire, with session cookies expiring when you log off/close the browser and all others upto a maximum of 11 months.

Learning more about managing cookies

To learn how to manage your cookies, please visit your web browser’s help centre:

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