Cookies

Cookies may be used for many different purposes. In the first place, Cookies can be required to make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in or visited the website before. These are called required Cookies. Cookies can also be used to analyse how a website is used, to count the number of visitors, to learn how the website may be improved. All tracking data and website usage are stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to individual website visitors. These Cookies are called analytics Cookies.

Thirdly, social media Cookies are used to enable the integration of social media & your data with the platform in question into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page without having to reauthenticate your profile. A fourth important use of cookies is to enable online advertising, which may be personalized to show ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. This is done by (targeted) advertising cookies.

We use Cookies to track your activities on our website and to analyse trends and improve our site for our customers. Our Cookies will not allow us to obtain information of a personal nature such as your name and address, unless you have set your browser to block cookies completely.

Find out more about the Cookies we use on your computer.

We rely on the basis of explicit consent for our use of Cookies. You have the option to refuse to accept analytics Cookies each time you visit our website. This rejection only disables tracking of website use & behaviour and has no impact on the performance of the website.

Modern web browsers allow some control of most Cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about Cookies, including how to see what Cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can also opt out of all other Cookies by using the privacy settings for your browser.

There are some elements of data visible to us as part of your use of the website. The information we have visibility of regardless of your acceptance of analytics Cookies is:

• The internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider.
• The type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, UNIX, macOS etc) that you use
• The device you use, such as a mobile phone or tablet
• The date and time of your visit
• The page(s) you visit
• The address of the website from which you linked to us, known as a referrer (if applicable)

We only use this information above to review website & server performance.

Our website may contain links to websites run by other organisations. This Cookie policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices or use of Cookies of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, about how we run the web site or concerning your dealings with our web site, please send an e-mail to us at dpo@group1auto.com. 

We keep our cookie notice under regular review. This was last updated 1st November 2024.