Cookies Policy

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file stored on a computer, phone or other device when a website is visited. Cookies can recognise a browser, remember a preference, keep a user signed in or help a site understand how it is used.

Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels and device identifiers. The rules that protect access to information on your device can apply to these technologies as well as conventional cookies.

What this website currently uses

The Equipment Bazaar site uses browser local storage to remember your basket, selected product options and visitor favourites. This information stays in your browser so those choices remain available when you return on the same device.

If you use My Account, Equipment Bazaar sets one essential, secure session cookie to keep you signed in. It is protected from browser scripts, is sent only over HTTPS and expires after 14 days or when you sign out. Your device favourites are automatically added to your account when you sign in. Favourites saved while signed in are held with your account and can be removed from My Account. These technologies are not used for advertising.

If you accept Website analytics, we count visits, product views, basket changes and checkout activity using random browser, visit and basket identifiers. These first-party reports do not store your name, email address, IP address, full referral URL or search terms. Visitor reports and identifiers cover the latest 90 days. Expired records are removed during collection. Visits restart after 30 minutes of inactivity. Confirmed sales are counted from our order records independently of analytics consent.

If you accept measurement cookies, the Google Ads tag uses advertising cookies to help link ad clicks to completed purchases. Google receives browser and device information, an ad click identifier where available, the page address and, for a confirmed card purchase, its value, currency and unique order reference. We do not send your name, email, address or card details in the purchase event. We do not enable personalised advertising or Google Analytics.

Browser storage used by Equipment Bazaar

The basket, price, option and visitor-favourite entries are functional local storage rather than cookies. These entries do not identify you by name. Device favourites are automatically saved to My Account when you sign in; the local favourites queue is cleared after they have been saved.

Essential hosting and security technology

Our website platform, content delivery network or security provider may use short-lived cookies or similar technical information where necessary to deliver pages, balance traffic, prevent abuse, maintain security or diagnose faults.

Strictly necessary technologies do not require consent where they are essential to provide a service you requested. Their names and duration may vary as the security and hosting service changes.

Optional cookies and consent

Optional analytics, advertising or personalisation cookies must not be set merely because you continue browsing. Where consent is required, it must be an active choice and refusing optional cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them.

Our cookie panel lets you choose Website analytics and Google Ads measurement separately, accept both or reject optional cookies. Neither runs without its own acceptance. Previously accepting advertising measurement does not automatically enable website analytics. Essential shop storage works with either choice. We remember your choice for 180 days before asking again.

How to control or delete storage

You can reopen Cookie settings in the footer at any time and change either optional choice or reject optional cookies to stop further analytics and advertising measurement. You can also use your browser settings to inspect, block or delete cookies and site data. Clearing site data for Equipment Bazaar will remove the basket and device favourites from that browser, but it will not remove favourites already saved to your account. Account favourites can be removed from My Account or from the relevant product page.

Browser menus vary, but controls are commonly found under Privacy, Security, Cookies or Site Data. Private browsing can reduce storage after a session, although it does not make browsing anonymous to websites or network providers.

Third-party content and links

Google Customer Reviews: After an eligible completed purchase, Google may display an optional review invitation. The invitation sends Google the email address, order reference, delivery country and estimated delivery date described in our Privacy notice. Google may read or place cookies or similar technologies in connection with this programme. These are separate from our Google Ads measurement and website analytics choices. The review survey email is only sent if you opt in through Google’s invitation. Browser privacy settings let you block or delete Google cookies; this may prevent the invitation from working. We also keep an order-reference-only marker in session storage to avoid repeatedly showing the invitation in the same browser tab; no email or address is stored in that marker, and it ends with the tab session.

Google provides our optional advertising measurement service. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Some product images are delivered from supplier or manufacturer websites, so your browser may contact those providers to retrieve the image. External links take you to services that set their own cookies or use their own storage. Equipment Bazaar does not control those services, and their own cookie and privacy information applies.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page if the website’s storage, providers or legal requirements change. The date at the top shows the latest update. Where a change requires consent, the relevant technology will not be enabled until an appropriate choice has been provided.