Cookie Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Blocks Online Limited’s (Blocks Online) cookie policy.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. 

As is common practice with almost all professional websites we use cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. 

For more general information on cookies see https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ 

2. HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Our website use cookies to distinguish you for other users of our website, which allows us to provide you with a good experience when using it and allows us to make improvements. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling some of the functionality and features they add to this site. We recommend that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service or feature that you use. 

3. THE COOKIES WE USE

Some cookies are ‘strictly necessary’ to enable you to move around the website and use its features. These cookies contain information about the user active session and enable us to provide our services. Without these cookies, we will not be able to provide certain features of our website. These essential cookies will always be enabled on our website. These include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. 

We use ‘analytic cookies’ to collect information about how people use our website. We do this to measure how visitors use our website and to understand how we can improve the website. Analytic cookies store information about the pages you visit, how long you are on the website, how you got there, what you click on and whether you have visited the website before. 

We use ‘functionality cookies’ which are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). 

Some cookies are ‘targeting cookies’ which 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 any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites. 

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: 

• Blocks Online 

• Google Analytics 

• Google Tag Manager 

• LinkedIn 

• Cloudflare 

• Zoho 

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

4.DISABLING COOKIES

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling such cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable strictly necessary cookies. You can disable other categories of cookies. 

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at support@blocksonline.co.uk.