Cookie Policy

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience when you visit our website.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer, smartphone, or other electronic devices, whenever you visit a website. Cookies store certain information about you to improve website functionality and are used by most websites.

Consent

When you visit our website, you will see a notice which provides a link to this policy. We ask that you consent to the use of cookies by clicking ‘accept’ on this notice. By clicking ‘accept’ on this notice, or by continuing to use our website after this notice has been displayed, we will consider this an acceptance of our cookie policy and you consent to our use of cookies for the purposes described hereafter. We are committed to protecting your data, and more information about our commitments to privacy can be found in our privacy policy.

Why we use cookies

We use cookies and other online tracking devices on this website to:

Obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the website.
Carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests.
Target our marketing and advertising campaigns and those of our partners more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests.
Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

The cookies we use

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies help to ensure our website is usable by enabling basic functions including page navigation, identifying trusted web traffic, identifying call traffic, and keeping your cart contents saved as you visit other pages. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Statistics Cookies

Statistic cookies allow us to see how our website visitors interact with the site by collecting and reporting anonymous information. This includes the source of your visit, for instance, if you came from clicking on an advert, or if you came through organic search results. It also includes which pages you viewed, if you are a new or returning web visitor, where you clicked, and if you submitted any web forms or enquiries.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to display ads that are relevant to site users. We use marketing cookies is to display personalised ads on search engines that are relevant and engaging, and monitor how you interact with these ads. We also use conversion tracking pixels, which communicate with social media cookies to create ads visible to users based on their journey through our website. These include conversion tracking pixels from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. While we do not control cookies from third-parties, details of how you can update these preferences can be found in the next sections of this policy. You can also find more details in our privacy policy.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are cookies set by a domain other than our own. While we have no control over the cookies from external services, we can make you aware of why we allow the use of third-party cookies on our website.

Third-party cookies help us to:

Improve your experience on our website through content.

An example of how we allow third-party cookies through embedded content is through YouTube, which is the platform we use to host our video content. We then embed these YouTube videos on some of our web pages to improve your experience. Data regarding your interactions with these videos may be stored by YouTube.

Make sure you can see offers that are personalised to you.

Through advertising network, we ensure that the ads you see from Shred Station are relevant to you and are not recommending unsuitable services.

Improve our website by analysing web traffic and collecting statistics about website visitor usage.

Web analytics services such as Google Analytics help us to see how our website is being used. This includes which pages are most frequently viewed, how long visitors spend on each page. This information helps us to ascertain which pages are the most popular and useful to website visitors, which, in turn, helps us to create more useful content. Please note that third-party analytics platforms such as Google Analytics may collect some personal data such as your IP address and store these on their servers.

How to turn off cookies

Please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website if cookies are disabled.

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are blocked. Most browsers will have different settings to choose from, so you have the option of blocking some cookies and keeping others.

If you want to keep cookies but opt-out of personalised ads and behavioural targeting, you can do so by using Ad Choices. You can also amend your social media ad preferences. More information on how to do this can be found in our privacy policy.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies:
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies