Cookies & The TechBank Website
Law on Cookies
The law states that any user of our website is given the opportunity to understand how cookies are used and consent to cookies being stored on your computer.
What are Cookies?
A Cookie is a text file stored on your computer's hard drive when you visit a website. A cookie is usually used so that the website can remember who you are. It will typically contain the domain of the website that issued it, the lifetime of the Cookie and a string value.
What is the TechBank’s website's Cookie policy?
Cookies are placed on the TechBank website, app and points booster both by TechBank and by third parties authorised by TechBank TechBank to do so.
Cookies on the TechBank website, app and points booster do the following:
- Tell us the route (such as a web-search or an online advertisement, for example) by which you came to the TechBank website, app or points booster.
- Where you are a Member:
- Track your transactions. When you make a purchase on a retailer's site it's cookies that give us the information to track and award your TechBank Points. Specifically, it tells us which retailer's site you've clicked through to and when. If you've made a purchase the cookie tells us the time you made it and the TechBank Points amount. In some cases it may also record the product(s) (or type of product(s)) purchased and the value of the purchase.
- Keep you logged in to your Account for a period of time.
- Allow us to comply with your choices about the display of information in your Account.
- Remember the options you select (such as favourite merchants).
- Permit integration with social media sites (such as the ability to "like" TechBank on Facebook).
- Provide you with recommended offers, based on your use of TechBank and the transactions you enter into through it.
- Also, if you visit the TechBank website and do not establish an Account, a cookie-like technology allows you to be presented with advertising for TechBank on other sites that you visit - this advertising is intended to prompt you to return to the TechBank website, app or points booster to register as a Member.
We may include cookies on the TechBank website, app or points booster that allow third party advertisers to present you with advertising on the TechBank site based on interests inferred from your web browsing activity and your use of the TechBank Service. To understand more about the cookies placed by third party advertising providers, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu.
We believe that the cookies you encounter on the TechBank website, app or points booster are either (i) necessary to perform the functions that Members wish to use the TechBank Service for, or (ii) are non-intrusive.
What Cookies are used on this website?
Session Cookies
These cookies will expire once your web browser is closed. These cookies are used for various reasons such as remembering what items have been added to a shopping basket.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies are still stored on your computer after you have closed your web browser which allows your preferences on websites to be remembered. These cookies are used for a variety of purposes, for example, remembering your preferences on a website (your language choice or your user name on a particular website).
Third Party Cookies
We use a third party, who researches the use of our website and activities on it on our behalf. In order for them to do this they will store cookies on your computer that does not contain any personal information for others to read and understand.
These third party cookies are grouped as 'Analytics & Optimisation' that is outlined below.
Analytics & Optimisation
Web analytics platform and a multi-variant testing platform to monitor and optimise this website, both of which utilise Cookies to capture anonymous data about a user's journey and aggregate this data up to analyse trends. These Cookies last longer than the user's session so that we can understand whether this is a user's first time, or a returning visitor.
The TechBank website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics also uses cookies so that TechBank can analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for TechBank and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you will be unable to collect TechBank Points on online purchases if you do. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
How can I refuse use of Cookies?
You may refuse the use of Cookies by changing your internet browser settings to disable the use of Cookies. Please note that the TechBank website, app and points booster requires the use of cookies to operate.
How can I disable Cookies in my browser?
The use of Cookies can be prevented by changing your internet browser settings. Each browser has a different procedure for disabling the use of Cookies. If you would like further information on Cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org
Further information can be found at www.ico.org.uk
Please note, however, that if you set your browser to reject cookies you may not be able to use certain aspects of TechBank - and will not be able to earn TechBank Points.