This Cookie Policy explains which cookies kdhelectrical.co.uk uses, what each one does, and how you choose which ones we may set. It adds detail to section 9 of our Privacy Policy.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They let the site recognise your device and remember things between pages, such as what is in your basket or the choice you make on our cookie banner. Some are essential for the site to work at all. Others help us understand how the site is used, or measure our advertising.
We also use similar technologies, such as local storage and pixels, and call all of them “cookies” on this page.
Nothing optional is set until you choose. The first time you visit, a banner asks you to accept all, reject all, or choose category by category. Until you answer, only the essential cookies are used.
The four categories
Essential
Analytics
Advertising
Product information from brands
If you reject all, the site works exactly the same: basket, checkout, delivery and your account. You just won’t see manufacturer extras on product pages, and our adverts won’t follow you around.
Google’s tags load on every page in what Google calls “consent mode”. Until you accept the Analytics or Advertising category, they run without cookies and without identifying you, sending Google only anonymous counts. Microsoft’s advertising tag uses its own consent mode in the same way. Accepting a category turns on that category’s cookies and nothing else.
Cookies we set
| Cookie | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Essential | Keeps track of what is in your basket | Session |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Essential | Tells the site your basket isn’t empty | Session |
| wp_woocommerce_session_* | Essential | Links your basket and checkout to your visit | 2 days |
| wordpress_logged_in_* and wordpress_sec_* | Essential | Keeps you signed in to your account, if you have one | Session, or 14 days if you tick “Remember me” |
| mas_consent | Essential | Records the cookie choice you made on the banner, and which version of this policy you answered | 12 months |
| _ga, _ga_* | Analytics | Google Analytics. Tells one visitor’s pages apart from another’s, without a name | Up to 2 years |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | Google Ads. Records that you arrived from one of our adverts, so a later order can be credited to it | 90 days |
| _uetsid | Advertising | Microsoft Advertising. Links the pages of one visit, so a later order can be credited to a Bing advert | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Advertising | Microsoft Advertising. Recognises a returning browser, without a name | 13 months |
| _uetmsclkid | Advertising | Microsoft Advertising. Keeps the Bing click reference you arrived with | 90 days |
| mas_click | Advertising | Set by this website. Keeps the Google or Microsoft click reference you arrived with, so a sale can be matched to the advert, including a sale completed over the phone | 30 days |
| sbjs_* | Advertising | Set by this website (WooCommerce order attribution). Remembers which site or search sent you here, so we know which channels lead to orders | Up to 6 months |
| Set by Loadbee | Product information from brands | Loadbee shows the manufacturer’s photos, videos and guides on product pages and may set its own cookies to do so. See Loadbee’s privacy policy | Set by Loadbee |
When you pay, the payment provider you choose may set its own cookies to process the payment securely and prevent fraud. These are needed to take your payment and count as essential.
Our partners
Only these companies set cookies on this site for us, and only once you allow the category each belongs to. Each publishes its own privacy policy.
- Google: Google Analytics (Analytics), Google Ads and Google Shopping (Advertising). How Google uses cookies.
- Microsoft: Microsoft Advertising, including Bing adverts (the Advertising category). Microsoft’s privacy statement.
- Loadbee: manufacturer product content on product pages (Product information from brands). Loadbee’s privacy policy.
Our address lookup at checkout and the fonts the site uses are loaded as part of showing you the page. Neither sets cookies on your device for us.
Changing your mind
- Cookie settings: the link at the foot of every page reopens the cookie settings, showing your current choice. Turn categories on or off and save. The change applies straight away, and anything you switch off is removed from your device.
- Your choice lasts 12 months. After that, or if we change what we collect, the banner asks you again. We keep a record of each choice for two years, so we can show what you agreed to. The record holds the date, the categories, which version of this policy you saw and a scrambled one-way form of your connection address, never the address itself.
- In your browser: you can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking the essential cookies will stop the basket and checkout from working.
- Google’s and Microsoft’s own controls: you can turn off personalised advertising in Google’s Ads Settings and Microsoft’s ad settings, separately from this site.
- Ask us: if you’d like to know what we hold, or want it removed, contact us using the details below.
Contact us
If you have questions about our use of cookies:
- Email: sales@
kdhelectrical.co.uk - Phone: 01622 541312