Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

We use cookies to collect and store information about how you use the UK Shipping Concierge website

Cookies are used to:

  • measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
  • remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again

Cookies on ukshippingconcierge.co.uk are not used to identify you personally.

Use of cookies on this website

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie
Name
Purpose
Cookie preferenceCookieControlThis cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on ukshippingconcierge.co.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.Language selectionlanguageThis cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on ukshippingconcierge.co.uk, using the language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site. Universal Analytics (Google)_ga
_gali
_gat
_gidThese cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding dataYouTube cookiesPREF*
VSC*
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE*
remote_sid*

We embed videos from our partners YouTube channels using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

PREF - * Expires after eight months
VSC - * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months
remote_sid - * expires at the end of your session

Change your settings

You can change your cookie preferences on ukshippingconcierge.co.uk at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon in the bottom left of your screen. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

To find out more about cookies, visit the Information Commissioner's Office - Cookies page.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Cookies on websites we link to

Other websites and services we link to may set additional cookies and, if so, will have their own cookie policy. This includes other government services and social media platforms such as LinkedIn or Twitter.

Last updated 17 April 2023