Cookie Policy

1. USEFUL INFORMATION

Company Name: Ellen Conlin (Hyndland) Ltd
Trading As: Ellen Conlin Hair and Beauty
Company Number: SC 202653
Our Website: https://ellenconlinhair.com/
Our Data Protection Officer: Lesley McBride
Address for all information requests and enquiries: Ellen Conlin Hair & Beauty, 183-185 Hyndland Road, Glasgow. G12 9HT


2. BACKGROUND

This site uses cookies which are small text files are placed on your computer or mobile device to help our website provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
Cookies are also designed to make your browsing experience better. If you do not agree to our cookie policy, please stop using our website immediately.

In this policy:

• “we”, “us” and “our” refer to The Company
• “website” or “site” refers to our website
• “user,” “users,” “you” and “your” refer to anyone who visits our website
• “Cookies” are text files placed on your computer to collect standard website user behaviour information.
• “Cookie Law” means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• “personal data or information” means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 or EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

3. HOW DOES OUR SITE USE COOKIES?

Our website uses first party cookies which are placed on your computer or other device to help us improve your experience of our website and provide and improve the products and services you use. We have carefully chosen these cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.

By using our website, you may also receive certain third party cookies on your computer or device. For more details, please refer to the section called ‘What Cookies Does Our Website Use?’ below. All cookies on our website are used in accordance with current Cookie Law.

4. WHAT COOKIES DOES OUR WEBSITE USE?

Below are essential cookies that may be placed on your computer or device. These Cookies must always be enabled and relate to either core functionality, security or spam protection. These cookies do not process data for marketing, analytics, sales or any other purpose that requires permissions under Cookie Law.

Name Origin Purpose/Type
_wpfuuid WordPress Core This cookie is created by WordPress to make sure the site runs correctly
apbct_* WordPress / Cleantalk Group of cookies which are set from backend and contain information about current user.
apbct_cookies_test WordPress / Cleantalk Сookie to validate other cookies, so they can’t be spoofed.
comment_author_[hash] WordPress Core If you post a comment or question, this cookie is created and stores your ID in a hashed format for future use.
comment_author_email_[hash] WordPress Core If you post a comment or question, this cookie is created and stores your email address for future use.
comment_author_url_[hash] WordPress Core If you post a comment or question, this cookie is created and stores the URL where you made the comment.
ct_* WordPress / Cleantalk Group of cookies used for storing dynamic variables from browser.
ct_sfw_* WordPress / Cleantalk Group of cookies used for our SpamFireWall technology.
klaro Cookie Consent Cookie used to record your cookie consent preferences.
PHPSESSID Host / Server PHP Session ID cookie. This Cookie is essential for our site to run correctly.
plesk_technical_domain Host / Server Only used for development websites to record the acceptance/mark as trusted on entry to the website.
[site]_status WordPress / Theme If a popup is enabled, this cookie is used to record if the popup has already been shown to you.
SGHomeChoice WordPress / Theme If our site has an entry page where you can choose Him/Her/Hair/Beauty/Health or other options. Your choce is stored in this cookie.
sg_popup WordPress / Theme Records if a custom popup has been triggered on the website.
wfvt_***** WordPress / Wordfence Used to track a visitor for the duration of their visit so that we can group page views together.
wfwaf-authcookie-***** WordPress / Wordfence It is used by Wordfence secuity to authenticate user's login request. This cookie is persistent and expires in 1 day.
woocommerce_cart_hash, wc_cart_hash_*, wc_fragments_*, woocommerce_items_in_cart WordPress / Woo Commerce These two cookies contain information about your shopping cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes.
wordfence_verifiedHuman WordPress / Wordfence Cookie set by the Wordfence Security to protect the site against malicious attacks.
wordpress_[hash] WordPress Core A cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area, /wp-admin/
wordpress_logged_in_[hash] WordPress Core Cookie, which indicates when you're logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.
wordpress_test_cookie WordPress Core A test cookie generated by wordpress to see if cookies are enabled within your browser.
wp_woocommerce_session_***** WordPress / Woo Commerce This contains a unique code for each customer so that our systems know where to your shopping cart data in the database for each customer.
wp-settings-{time}-[UID], wp-settings-time-*, wp_lang, wpEmojiSettingsSupports WordPress Core Stores user and language preferences for WordPress and checks if browser supports emoji characters.
__cfduid Host / Cloudflare Used to identify the website behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This is apart of Cloudflares secuity firewall.
_grecaptcha Google Provides spam protection
__stripe_mid WordPress / Stripe Non session. A unique ID number that allows you to complete payment through the Stripe payment gateway.
__zlcmid Zopim Chat Widget A unique identifyer that allows you to use the Zopim chat wiget on different pages throughout a site.

5. CONSENT & CONTROL
You will be shown a prompt which requests your consent when cookies are being set by our website. We'd like to set analytics cookies to understand how you use this site and we may use services from Vimeo and YouTube that may also use cookies. These cookies are disabled by default and using the Cookie Consent, you may enable or disable services as you see fit. However, some services such as third party embeds may not function correctly depending on the preferences you choose.

6. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY

We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our website after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.

Cookie Policy last updated September 2024.