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Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Holt Business Solutions Ltd, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, ordering. holtbs.com and punchout.holtbs.com (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 21/5/18. ‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies. For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

Contents

About cookies

List of cookies used

Essential cookies

Non-essential cookies

Web beacons

How to accept or reject cookies

Copyright, credit and logo

About cookies

 What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’. Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

· used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or

· strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies). © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE.

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First and third party cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains. If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

List of cookies used

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

Name of Cookie Essential or Nonessential? Type of cookie First or Third party? Session or Persistent? Expiry Time Purpose Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-aorder Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-basketOpen Essential Functional First party Persistent 7 Days Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-BasketPopulated Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. Holtbs.com Oasisweb-canorder Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. Oasisweb-ipid contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-kco Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-kcusno Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-pclassexc Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering.holtbs.com Oasisweb-pclassinc Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-pword Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-role Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-sesscookies Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-session Essential Functional First party Persistent 1 Month Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-siteid Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-sitemode Essential Functional First party Persistent 1 Month Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-srchname Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. contain personal information. Ordering. holtbs.com Oasisweb-uname Essential Functional First party Session Username for the website. Ordering. holtbs.com gaid Essential Functional First party Session Used for correct functioning of website. Does not contain personal information. Oasissolutions.atlassian.net Atlassian.xsrf.token Essential Functional 3 rd Party Session Used to help prevent XSRF (cross site) attacks. Google Analytics _ga Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 2 Years To help us understand how you interact with our website. Google Analytics _gid Non-essential Analytical First party Session Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses our website. Google Analytics _gat Non-essential Analytical First party Session Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Google Analytics collect Non-essential Analytical 3 rd Party Session Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitors device and behaviour. Essential cookies These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: ensuring our website functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested. © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. How to opt out of essential cookies Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly. You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected. For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies Non-essential cookies We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website: · Functional cookies · Analytical (or performance) cookies · Targeting (or advertising) cookies Functional cookies These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. How to opt in or out from functional cookies See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device. Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing or enhancing the website functionality you have requested. Analytical (or performance) cookies Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website: © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. We use Google Analytics cookies on our website. Google Analytics cookies help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are: _ga, _gid, test_cookie, IDE. These cookies are session and persistent cookies. These cookies expire after 2 years. More information Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ How to opt in or out from analytical cookies See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, Third parties use cookies to analyse your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third party advertisements) to you and advertisement conversion tracking such as Google AdWords. Third party cookies used in relation to our website include: - Google AdWords cookies to track whether you have come to us via an advertisement we have placed on a search engine results page and elsewhere across the internet, such as another website and to record information relating to how you came to us such as your location when you accessed our website, the time of day you visited and the device you were using. Google may use different cookies to track how you came to our website depending on what advertisement you clicked on and where. - Google remarketing cookies to display advertisements to you about our goods and services across the internet, including on other websites you visit. Google uses cookies to display advertisements © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google remarketing, click here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en More information For information about the cookies Google uses in relation to the above, see the ‘Advertising’ section on the Types of cookies used by Google page in Google’s cookies policy, which is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ For information about how Google uses data from cookies for its own purposes, please visit the following link www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ How to opt in or out from third party cookies See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies Processing information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: the purposes for which we use the third party cookies as described. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of third party cookies, including automated decision making and profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: www. We and any marketing companies we use also embed web beacons in our marketing emails and/or on our website. Web beacons are small GIF image files which enable us to track your receipt of our marketing emails, how often you view our adverts or website pages, your location, IP address and browser information. Web beacons are activated whenever you open a marketing email or access a page on our website which contains a web beacon. Web beacons transmit data when you view them but are not capable of accessing any other information on your computer. Web beacons are not stored on your hard drive unless you download a GIF image containing them. Some (but not all) browsers enable you to restrict the use of web beacons by either preventing them from sending information back to their source (for example, when you choose browser settings that block cookies and trackers), or by not accessing the images containing them (for example, if you select a ‘do not display images (in emails)’ setting in your email server). © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. How to opt in or out See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: analysing the effectiveness of our email marketing. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of web beacons, including automated decision making and profiling please see the section entitled There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below: You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable. You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies. You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org Accepting or rejecting cookies Browser settings You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers: - Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB - Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-historyfirefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History - Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-deletecookie-files-in-internet-explorer - Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies. © GDPR PRIVACY POLICY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT DETECTION SOFTWARE. Existing cookies To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so. Google Adsettings You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by: - unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and - switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue). Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996 Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Web beacons

You can opt in to us using web beacons in our marketing emails by: subscribing (or re-subscribing) to our newsletter. You can opt out of our use of web beacons in our marketing emails by: unsubscribing from our newsletter. An unsubscribe link is included in the footer of each email.

Copyright, credit and logo

This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy