Cookies
We use cookies for certain areas of our website at www.synthomer.com (the "Site"). Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Among other things, cookies help us improve our Site and your experience.
The cookies used on our Site are “performance” cookies and "strictly necessary" cookies, as categorised under the International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom Cookie Guide.
"Performance" cookies collect information about how users navigate this Site, for example, which pages users access most frequently. They identify how users interact with our Site, any errors that occur, which pages are not used often, which pages take a long time to load, which pages users tend to visit and in what order. These cookies do not collect any information which could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our Site works and understand what interests our Site’s users.
"Strictly necessary" cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like contacting us via the contact form cannot be provided.
We generally do not use cookies to identify you personally.
Cookie name | Where cookie is used | Expiration period | Further information |
_utma, (all used by Google Analytics) | These performance cookies are used throughout the Synthomer website | These are persistent cookies which allow our Site to remember your preferences and settings when you visit our Site in the future. The persistent cookies that our Site uses expire as followed: | We are using Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our Site and ways we can improve their experience. More information can be found at the Google Analytics website by clicking |
cookieconsent_dismissed | This strictly necessary cookie is set it you confirm that you consent to the setting of performance cookies. | This is a persistent cookie which allows our Site to remember that you have accepted that we may set cookies when you use our Site. The persistent cookies that our Site uses expire after 1 year. | |
visid_incap, | These strictly necessary cookies are used throughout the Synthomer website for security purposes. | visid_incap - 1 year, |
As noted above, this website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. Google uses this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Cookie settings
We will ask for your consent to the use of the performance cookies when you access our Site. When you first visit the Site, a box will appear informing you that we use cookies and either giving you a button saying “Accept” to confirm that you consent to the performance cookies. If you click “block”, those cookies will be disabled. You can usually choose to set your browser to warn you when a cookie is being sent or to remove or reject cookies. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookie settings. You can learn more about web browser cookies, including types of cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences by visiting these web pages: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org