Effective Date: 28/04/2025
1. Introduction
Our website, https://networkplus.co.uk (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.3 Social Media
On our website, we have included content from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn to promote web pages (e.g. like , pin ) or share on social networks like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalised advertising.
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn are located in the United States.
6. Placed Cookies
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
| _ga_* | .networkplus.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| _ga | .networkplus.co.uk | 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. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
| rc::a | google.com | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | persistent | Necessary |
| rc::d-[session ID] | google.com | This cookie is used to check user behaviour for the reCAPTCHA challenge during the session. | session | Necessary |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | networkplus.co.uk | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. | session | Necessary |
| rc::c | google.com | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | session | Necessary |
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
You can manage your consent by using the button below:
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
Google Analytics
Cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information but they will use your computer’s IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.
Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may transfer this information to third-parties where required to do so by law, or where such third-parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
The retention period for data specified in Google Analytics is 26 months.
Opt-out
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way.
A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.
For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.
- Google Analytics privacy advice – https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience.
- Microsoft Edge – https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Google Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py
- Mozilla Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-site-preferences
- Apple Safari – https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/cookies/
9. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Company Name: Network Plus Service Limited
Address: Chaddock Lane, Tyldesley, Manchester M28 1XW
Email Address: dataprivacyenquiries@networkplus.co.uk
Phone Number: 0161 351 5370