Cookie Policy

Our Website uses cookies (as defined below) to distinguish you from other users of Our Website. This is how most websites operate as cookies are essential for delivering a great website and shopping experience for our customers.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small data file of letters and numbers that we  will place on your computer or device.

What Cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies; session cookies, persistent cookies, first party cookies and third party cookies.

  • Session cookies: These cookies link your actions on a website to our data system and are used for a number of reasons such as remembering what you’ve put into your shopping basket while browsing the site. The session cookies expire as soon as the browser is closed so no information is stored permanently.
  • Persistent cookies: These cookies remember your preferences or actions across a website and help us to provide you with information that is relevant to you in the future. The information collected can be used to track actions across multiple browser sessions and may be used to make advertising more relevant to you.
  • First party cookies: These cookies are set and handled directly by G Plan Upholstery, they cannot be accessed or read by any other website.
  • Third party cookies: These are cookies that we have given a separate website permission to use on G Plan Upholstery, these allow the separate website to record certain actions you take on G Plan Upholstery.

We further differentiate cookies by whether they are essential, required or optional:

Essential: Essential cookies are required for the site to function. These cannot be disabled, as they would seriously compromise the site’s performance. For example, a session cookie that keeps a note of whether you are logged in is essential.

Required: Required cookies are different from essential cookies because the site would still function if they were removed. We class our analytics cookies as required because they allow us to use anonymous traffic data to improve how the site functions.

Optional: These cookies are used to enable functions that are not essential, and not required. For example, cookies used to track “likes” and tweets are considered optional. You can choose not to accept optional cookies by clicking the “Do not accept cookies” button in the Optional Cookies Preferences below.

Please see below for more information about the individual cookies we use:

Cookie Domain Type ⇅ Description Duration
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com Advertisement This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. 5 months 27 days
test_cookie .doubleclick.net Advertisement This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. 15 minutes
IDE .doubleclick.net Advertisement Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. 1 year 24 days
_ga .gplan.co.uk Analytics This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. 2 years
_gid .gplan.co.uk Analytics This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form. 1 day
_gat_gtag_UA_32726015_1 .gplan.co.uk Analytics This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. 1 minute
PHPSESSID www.gplan.co.uk Necessary This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. session
_GRECAPTCHA .google.com Necessary This cookie is set by Google. In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. 5 months 27 days
user_visits www.gplan.co.uk Other No description session
CONSENT .youtube.com Other No description 16 years 7 months 12 days 9 hours 3 minutes
YSC .youtube.com Performance This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. session

 

Consent to receive Cookies

When using Our Website, you will be either asked whether you would like to opt-in or reject our use of cookies, or we will provide you with a link to where you can manage your preferences. If you do not consent, please disable the cookies in your browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including cookies required for the operation of Our Website, for example, which enable you to log into secure areas or to use a shopping cart) you may not be able to access all or parts of Our Website. If you have any questions about our cookies please contact us by email, by telephone, or by post. You can contact us easily.

Third parties

Please note that third parties (for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

All third-party cookies used by Our Website can be opted out by a website user. This is done on the initial cookie notice, which will disable the following cookies:

  • LPVisitorID
  • LPVID
  • LPSessionID
  • LPSID-[id]
  • optimizelyBuckets
  • optimizelyEndUserId
  • optimizelySegments

By rejecting the use of third-party cookies, Live Chat and additional tracking/split testing features will be disabled. To re-enable these features after rejecting third party cookies, clearing all saved cookies and allowing the use of third party cookies will enable the disabled services.

Analytical

Analytical cookies are used to measure site performance such as the number of visitors, number of purchases and number of errors.
Specifically, we use these to:

  • Gather anonymous statistics on how Our Website is used
  • Help us to identify any errors that may occur

We do not use these to:

  • Advertise products or services to you

The names of these analytical cookies are:

Name Duration Purpose
_ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
_gid 24 hours Used to distinguish users.
_gat 1 minute Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
AMP_TOKEN 30 seconds to 1 year Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
_gac_<property-id> 90 days Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.

 

How to control Cookies

Altering your cookie settings is a relatively simple task, however, the process does differ between browsers. Here’s how to access your cookie settings in the most popular browsers.

Google Chrome:

  1. Click on the Tools menu and select Options.
  2. Click the Under the Bonnet tab and look for the Privacy section.
  3. Choose the Cookie settings tab.
  4. From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

Internet Explorer 11 & Microsoft Edge:

  1. Choose Tools and then Internet Options.
  2. Click the Privacy tab.
  3. From here you can change your settings as you see fit.
  4. (For specialised cookie settings, click on Advanced, click the Override cookies handling button and change your settings).

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Click on Tools and then Options.
  2. Select Privacy.
  3. Select Cookies.
  4. From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

Opera:

  1. Go to Tools in the main menu.
  2. Go to Preferences at the bottom of the File menu (or press Alt+P to access them directly).
  3. Click Privacy.
  4. From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

Safari:

  1. Choose Preferences from the Safari menu.
  2. Select the Security icon.
  3. Cookie settings will appear in the window.
  4. From here you can change your settings as you see fit.

How to delete Cookies

Deleting your cookie settings is also relatively easy but the process does differ between browsers. Here’s how to delete cookies in the most popular browsers.

Google Chrome:

  1. Click on the Tools menu and select Options.
  2. Click the Under the Bonnet tab and look for the Privacy section.
  3. Click Clear browsing data.
  4. Select Delete cookies and other site data to delete all cookies from the list.
  5. Select Clear browsing history to delete traces of which websites you’ve visited.
  6. Select Clear download history to delete records of which files and programs you’ve downloaded.
  7. Select Empty the cache to delete cached websites.

Internet Explorer 11 & Microsoft Edge:

  1. Choose Tools.
  2. Click Delete browsing history.
  3. Tick the Cookies box and click Delete.

Internet Explorer 9:

  1. Choose Tools and then Safety.
  2. Click Delete browsing history.
  3. Tick the Cookies box and click Delete.

Internet Explorer 8:

  1. Choose Safety on the command bar.
  2. Click Delete browsing history.
  3. Tick the Cookies box and click Delete.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Click on Tools and then Options.
  2. Select Privacy.
  3. Select Show Cookies.
  4. To remove a single cookie highlight it and click Remove cookies.
  5. To remove all cookies click Remove all cookies.

Opera:

  1. Go to Tools in the main menu.
  2. Click Delete private data.

Safari:

  1. Choose Preferences from the Safari menu.
  2. Select the Security icon.
  3. Click Show cookies.
  4. Select the cookies that you want to delete.
  5. Click Delete.