Cookie Policy for Bristol Waste Company

What are cookies? 

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your user experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may limit some of the functionality on the site. 

For more general information on cookies, we recommend this Information Commissioner’s Office article: Cookies | ICO.   

How we use cookies 

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. In most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. We recommend that you allow all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use. 

Disabling cookies 

You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser ‘Help’ for how to do this). Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this site. Therefore, we recommend that you do not disable cookies. 

The cookies we set 

If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the sign-up 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. 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. 

From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages. 

When you submit data 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. 

Third-party cookies 

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might find on this site. 

This site uses Google Analytics 4, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your user 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. 

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and X (Twitter) will place cookies on 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. 

Other cookies might relate to digital tools that we use to improve for example our enewsletter, or to better understand how visitors to the website are interacting with our content so that we are able to make ongoing improvements. 

More information 

For more information, please contact us on data.protection@bristolwastecompany.co.uk.