Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions shall govern the relationship between us and you and shall prevail despite the existence of any printed or other conditions even if such conditions purport to take precedence. Please read them carefully.

How Hosting UK use Cookies

Hosting UK uses Cookies on our Website to help our users - nothing else! We do not give your details away, tell other companies what you attempted to buy (or looked at) and we do not follow you around the internet with adverts! If you want to learn more about Cookies, please click here

There are 4 types of Cookies.

Essential website critical & performance Cookies (used on Hosting UK)
Allows you to use a website to its full specification. For example: can allow you to buy things via a shopping basket.

Third Party Cookies (used on Hosting UK)
Allow us to enhance our web services, for example web chat, and helps us identify you.

Anonymous Statistical Cookie (used on Hosting UK)
Tells the website owner how visitors the site gets - contains no information about the individual.

Targeting and Advertising Cookies (not used on Hosting UK)
Can send information to other websites - this allows them to advertise more effectively. There are some websites out that analyse your behaviour and then attempt to advertise to you as you browse other website on the Internet. Some websites even pass on this information to 3rd parties.

You may have seen adverts that follow you around the internet e.g. if you once looked at a bracelet, on the next site you visit an advert for the same bracelet - Hosting UK does not use this technology.

We only allow Essential Cookies that will allow you to use our website to its full specification, and Anonymous Statistical Cookies that can help tell us what's popular on our website. We do this to allow us to see trends on our website & products, but more importantly, so we can spot problems.

If you want to opt-out of using Cookies please click here

We are always trying to improve this communication, and will be updating this page when our audits are complete.

Below is a summary of the types of Cookies used on Hosting UK.

Essential Cookies (without these the site will not work)

‘Essential Cookies’ let you buy products, search for domain names and also get discounts on our products. They do not track your behaviour and are not passed onto anyone.

Accepting these Essential Cookies is a pre requisite of using this website. We cannot guarantee your security or user experience should you choose to block these Cookies.

Cookies that we deem to be Essential to site operations:

Cookie Name	Basic Description
WHMCSXXXXX	(Where XXXXX is a number)This allows us to know what you have in your shopping cart.

Third Party Cookies

Cookies that allow us to use third party services on our web site that enhance end user experiance.
We have one service from LiveChat allow us to maintain remember you as you navigate our web site so that we can support you better should you use our chat service, for example; so we can reference previous chat sessions you have had with us or see where you are on our web site.

Cookie Name	Basic description
__lc.visitor_id.	Used by the web chat
lc_window_state	Used by the web chat
_3rdparty	Used by the web chat
main_window_timestamp_3	Used by the web chat
main_window_timestamp	Used by the web chat
message_text	Used by the web chat
recent_window	Used by the web chat
notification[status_ping]	Used by the web chat
__lc_vv	Used by the web chat
__livechat_lastvisit	Used by the web chat
__livechat	Used on this website

Anonymous Statistical Cookies

Statistical cookies do not contain any personal information– they simply tell us how our website is performing – essential for us to improve customer experience. These statistics the Cookies provide tell us if there are problems, and will also give us some indication (anonymously) as to what our customers are interested in.

Cookie Name	Google Analytics anonymous tracking
_ga	Used on this website
_gid	Used on this website
_utmz	Used on this website
_utmc	Used on this website
_utmb	Used on this website
_utma	Used on this website
_utmx	Used on this website
_utmxx	Used on this website

Opting out of using cookies

If you dont want to use Cookies - there are several ways of changing your settings. But please remember if you disable the use of Cookies completely you may not be able to use some websites.

Below are some links that relate to the type of Internet Browser you may use.

If you use Internet explorer browse the Internet
If you use Firefox to browse the Internet
If you use Google Chrome to browse the Internet

Further information from Hosting UK

If there is any information you can't find on our web site or that we have not included here please ask by either calling 01745 586070 or submit a query