Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 01 October 2024
At QualityExcellence Ltd , we value your privacy and are committed to ensuring that your personal data is protected. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website www.qualityexcellence.co.uk (the “Website”) to deliver an optimized browsing experience and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They serve a variety of purposes, such as enabling the website to function properly, remembering your preferences, and analyzing website performance. Cookies may be either “session” cookies, which are deleted after your browsing session ends, or “persistent” cookies, which remain on your device until deleted or until they expire.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your experience on our Website, tailor content to your preferences, and improve the overall functionality of our services. Specifically, cookies are used for:
- Essential Functions: To ensure that the Website operates correctly and provides access to secure areas, such as user accounts or service request forms.
- Targeting: It is important for us to know when and how often you visit our Website, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make our Website and advertising more relevant to your interests.
- Functionality: To remember your preferences and settings, such as language choices or previously entered information, so you do not have to re-enter these during subsequent visits.
- Advertising and Marketing: To provide you with relevant content and advertisements on our Website or other platforms, and to track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
- Analytics: It is important for us to understand how you use our Website, for example, how efficiently you navigate around it and which features you interact with: Where permitted by law, we may use certain analytics cookies that help us gather this information without requiring your consent. These cookies are used solely to improve the performance and usability of our Website and do not collect information that identifies you personally. Where analytics cookies are used for any other purpose or involve tracking, we will always request your consent first.
- Persistent: Any of the above types of cookies may be a persistent cookie. Persistent cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit our Website.
- Session: Any of the above types of cookies may be a session cookie. Session cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit our Website until you close your browser. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
Certain features of our Website depend on cookies to function. Cookie Law deems these Cookies to be “strictly necessary”. Your consent will not be sought to place these Cookies, but it is still important that you are aware of them. You may still block these cookies by changing your internet browser’s settings as detailed below, but please be aware that our Website may not work properly if you do so. We have taken great care to ensure that your privacy is not at risk by allowing them.
The following first, third party and analytics Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
| Name of Cookie | Purpose | Type |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | Analytics |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | Analytics |
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the option to accept or decline cookies. You can manage your cookie settings through your browser by:
- Modifying your browser settings to automatically decline cookies.
- Deleting cookies already stored on your device.
Please note that disabling certain cookies may impact the functionality of our Website, and some services may become unavailable.
Here are links to manage cookies for popular browsers:
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our use of cookies or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please review this policy periodically for any updates.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or your personal data, please contact us at:
QualityExcellence Ltd
jennifer@qualityexcellence.co.uk
020 8303 5909
19 Montpelier Avenue, Bexley DA5 3AP