Privacy & Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored by a website within a web browser allowing small amounts of information to pass between your computer and a website server. This allows our web site to remember what products you have in your shopping trollery, to tailor content to suite your browsing experience and to help us learn how you like to browse our web site so that we can make improvements.

Cookies were designed to be a mechanism for websites to remember things that a browser had done there in the past such as logging-in or which pages have previously been visited.

The ALKO BASE web site uses cookies to perform essential functions on a modern web site including:

Remembering what products you have in your shopping trolley.

Remembering whether you are logged-in or not.

Monitoring web site traffic.

The ALKO BASE web site collects non-personal data to monitor traffic flow:

Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.

How you found our web site including any search terms.

The domain name you are using for example .co.uk or .com.

The web browser you are using to view our web site.

Which popular pages you visit on the web site.

Deleting Cookies:

Deleting cookies depends on your web browser, normally found within the tools function. Modern web site browsers provide the option to disable cookies. You can find the instructions for doing this in the browser's Help menu function. Refusing cookies on your web browser will mean you cannot complete a purchase at The ALKO BASE.

Privacy Policy and Personal Information We Collect:

We will only collect and use your personal information in accordance with data protection laws. From May 2018, you will have a right to object to our use of your personal information, including a right to object to us communicating with you.

Consent: we only collect and process your personal information if you have consented for us to do so, for example when you order from our web site.

Legitimate Interests: We may use your personal information where we have legitimate reasons to do so including communicating with you via email about new products where you have agreed to do so. We may use your personal information to undertake demographic profiling to help us better understand the products you are interested in.

Any of your personal information, including contact details, will not be sold to third parties or used for the purposes of unsolicited communications.