Effective from: 9th May 2024

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file that is placed on to your computer when you visit a website.

Cookies are used by almost all websites and perform a number of functions like remembering your preferences, playing videos, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the number of visitors visiting a website.

Cookie law

The rules on cookies are covered in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). 

Where cookies collect personal information, and can identify a user, their use is also subject to the General Data Protection Regulation. Where user consent is required to use cookies, it must meet the GDPR standard for “valid” consent as detailed in Article 4(11).

How do these regulations impact me?

You may come across information about cookies on websites and be given choices about how some cookies are used. This might include, for example, being asked to consent to a cookie being used for a particular service.

Organisations are responsible for providing clear information about the way they use cookies and ensuring that they give people using their website the right choices.

Controlling cookies

You can use your Internet browser to:

• delete all cookies;
• block all cookies;
• allow all cookies;
• block third party cookies;
• clear all cookies when you close the browser; or
• open a ‘private browsing’ / ‘incognito’ session, which allows you to browse the internet without storing local data.

You can find more information on how to control cookies using your browser here:
Internet Explorer cookies information
Chrome cookies information
Firefox cookies information
Safari cookies information
Opera cookies information

Our use of cookies
There are many different types of cookies used on websites that can broadly be split into the following groups:

• Strictly required cookies – they are required for the website to run and cannot be switched off. You can set your browser to block these cookies but this might affect the way the website works.
• Functional cookies – enhance your website experience by providing additional features that improve usability and personalisation. While not essential for the website to function, they can enrich the browsing experience.
• Analytics and statistics – measure visitor traffic and/or identify the source of traffic. They can also track which pages and actions are more popular than others in order to improve user’s experience in future.
• Marketing and re-targeting – these are used to by companies to help their digital marketing efforts and make sales. They can be used to build a profile of your interests to target relevant ads or content to you. 

We use the following cookies on our website:

Strictly required cookies

Functional cookies

Analytical and statistical cookies

Marketing and retargeting cookies

Contact us
To exercise all rights, queries, or complaints in relation to this Cookie Notice please contact our Data Protection Lead by email to privacy@edisonred.com. 

If this does not resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the United Kingdom’s Supervisory Authority.

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113

Web: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/