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Privacy and Cookies

The Smeg Service website uses cookies to better understand which are the most popular pages and which are the least popular, this is completed using Google analytics. Other than for Google analytics, this website uses third party cookies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google Maps.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is stored by your browser. Because of cookies, your web browser can remember you are logged in, or have visited this site before, or what your personal preferences are. Cookies can also allow us to collect data about how popular or un-popular our pages are.

Our use of cookies

We make use of Google analytics www.google.com/analytics to provide us with this data. Google analytics does use cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This helps us to ensure that the service is available when you want it.

In addition we can

See which our most viewed content is and which is our least viewed, allowing us to make decisions about changing, moving or removing content. See which is the most busy time for the website is and which is the quietest, this allows us to make decisions about, taking the site ‘off line’ for essential maintenance for example. None of this information is personally identifiable.

The cookies Google analytics sets are

Cookie Name Type Purpose
_utma Persistent This cookie is utilised for Google Analytics tracking it does not use any customer data.
_utmb Persistent This cookie is utilised for Google Analytics tracking it does not use any customer data.
_utmc Session This cookie is utilised for Google Analytics tracking it does not use any customer data.
_utmz Persistent This cookie is utilised for Google Analytics tracking it does not use any customer data.

Social Network Sharing

If you take the opportunity to 'share' Smeg Service content with friends and family through social networks – such as Facebook and Twitter - you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don't control the setting of these cookies, so please check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Removing and disabling cookies

If you visit our website then we assume you are OK with our website using cookies. If you do not wish to accept cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting settings on your browser. However this will probably affect the functionality of some websites that you visit.