Our Cookie Policy
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below.
The website uses cookies to distinguish you from other website users and provides increased functionality when using the website. This allows The Pharmacy Group to provide you with a better customer experience by continually improving the website to meet specific user preferences.
Cookies are small text files (letters & numbers) placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies are widely used to make websites function correctly, work more efficiently, and provide information to the owners of the site to improve the websites' performance.
The Pharmacy Group will not collect any information about you except in accordance with our privacy policy and as required for the website server's system administration.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
If you create an account with us, we will use cookies to manage the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
When you submit data to 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.
We use the following categories of cookies:
Necessary cookies. These are cookies that enable our website's core functionality, such as security, network management, and accessibility. They allow you to access certain services on the website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information on pages visited. This allows us to recognise and track the number of visitors to see behaviour trends and how visitors navigate the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the website's functionality, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. The primary way we do this is by using Google Analytics.
Functionality cookies: These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to the website to improve your experience. 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).
The above cookies also fall into two categories – session or persistent. Session cookies expire at the end of your browsing session (when you leave the website) and persistent cookies expire at a specified time in the future.
Third-Party Cookies
You can block cookies by activating your browser's setting that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of the website.
In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for understanding how you use the site and ways to 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.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook and Twitter, we will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: info@thepharmacygroup.co.uk
Last updated: 29 January 2021