Andreas Stihl Limited – Cookie Policy

1. Information about our use of cookies

• Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. When you use our site, a banner will be displayed asking you for your consent to our use of cookies.

2. What are cookies?

• A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is saved onto your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit our site.
• Cookies store small pieces of information. For example, one type of cookie will remember that you have visited our site before.
• Cookies help us to improve your visit and experience when browsing our site by, for example, storing certain information so you don’t have to re-enter it on subsequent visits.
• Cookies also assist us in tracking which pages of the website you have visited.
• We use both persistent cookies (which stay with your computer and will work until their expiry date, unless detected by you beforehand) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).

3. We use the following cookies:

• Strictly Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential for the operation of our site.
• Analytical/ performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise use when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
• You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Name	Description	Expiry
CookieNoticeDisplayed	We use this cookie to not display the cookie notice banner, after you have accepted or reviewed our cookie policies.	End of session
Cart	This is used to identify your current shopping cart as your own.	[End of session]
CartTotalCookie	This is used to identify the current count of items in your shopping cart.
_RequestVerificationToken	This security cookie is used to validate current requests and protect against cross site request forgery.
Ico	We use this cookie to identify the last checkout complete during the checkout process for checkout record keeping.
ASP.NET_SessionId   www.stihl.co.uk (ASP Session)	This cookie assists us in monitoring your use of our site	[End of session]
country GeoQueries "siteCountryCode"   IPLocator	We use this cookie to identify the location of the users of our site.
productCatalogNotepad   Notepad	This is used to identify the products listed on our website.

 

4. Third party cookies

• Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

 

• The table below explains the cookies we use on our site, why they are collected and when they expire:

 

Name and domain	Description	Expiry
cw_id loc mus na_id na_tc ssc uid uvc __atuvc __atuvs   .addthis.com (.addthis.com)	AddThis allows you to share content on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.	28 days 1186 days 1186 days 28 days 28 days 5493 days 5493 days 3317 days End of session 7 days
_ga _gid   .fontawesome.com (.fontawesome.com)	This cookie is used to distinguish users.	7 days 89 days
laravel_session XSRF-TOKEN   stihlapproveddealer.co.uk (php laravel)	This cookies is used to verify that the authenticated user is the one actually making the request to the application	30 days 3317 days
_ga _gid   .stihl.co.uk (Google Analytics)	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to analyse how visitors find our website, how often they visit it, and which pages are the most popular.	6 days 89 days
_ga _gid   .stihlapproveddealer.co.uk (Google Analytics)	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to analyse how visitors find our website, how often they visit it, and which pages are the most popular.	6 days 89 days
__qca CM CM14 Uid _ga _gid     track.adform.net (Adform Digital)	This cookie is used for Adform digital advertising to show you the most relevant ads across the web.	7 days 1327 days 1327 days 646 days 6 days 89 days
_ga _gat_UA-23169690-3 _gid   .blog.stihl.co.uk (Appnexus)	x	7 days 426 days 426 days

 

5. Your interaction with cookies

• It is possible to disable and remove cookies from your computer or device by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to do so. You will need to know what browser you are using and what version you have.
• You can refer to your browser’s help section or visit the aboutcookies.org/ website for further information and assistance with cookies.
• Please be aware that if you use your browser settings to block or amend certain cookies, your browsing experience may change for the worse.

6. Changes to this policy

• We may update, change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately. Please visit this page periodically if you want to keep up to date.