Cookie Policy

How we use cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website at  www.ncct.co.uk     ("Website") and also allows us to improve our Website. By continuing to browse the Website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree, which can be used to identify that you have previously visited a website, or to store small bits of information locally with you.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website and to make our Website easier for you to use. By continuing to browse the Website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can remove any cookies already stored on your computer but this may prevent you from using parts of our Website.

THE COOKIES WE USE

We use the following cookies:

1. Strictly necessary cookies.

   These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

2. Analytical/performance cookies.

   They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

3. Functionality cookies.

   These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. 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}. For instance, we will use cookies for remembering your log in details and your preferences (e.g. if you opt out from receiving marketing communications from us}.

4. Compliance Cookies

   We will use a cookie to count how many times the cookies pop up has been shown to you. Once it has been shown to you a number of times (or if you click "yes please" or "no thanks" at the bottom}, the pop up will no longer be displayed (unless you removed the compliance cookies from your device}.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

1. Estimate our audience size and usage patterns on our Website.
2. Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.
3. Speed up your searches.
4. Recognise you when you return to our site.
5. Search terms you have used to either find our website or used on our website, a record of all browsing behaviour including links clicked. This is done via a cookie which is set on your first arrival to our website and the contents of any form you submit to us.
6. Information that will help us contact you in the future like: name, company name, address, phone and email.
7. And retain all personal information disclosed by you to us, we will not seek to append personal data from external sources.
8. Information on engagement with the emails and SMS messages you receive from us.
9. The IP address your router freely transmits to our web servers.
10. Your browser user agent, as freely transmitted by your computer. This includes your browser build information, your device type and your computer's operating system.

HOW CAN I MANAGE MY COOKIES?

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services} may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies} you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.