This policy explains which cookies our website uses, what they do, and how you can control them. It supplements our privacy policy.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Some are needed for the site to work — for example to keep the products in your cart. Others are optional and help us understand how the site is used or measure our advertising. Similar technologies, such as your browser's local storage, are covered by this policy in the same way.
How we use cookies
- Strictly necessary cookies are always on. They are used for your session, cart and quotation list, sign-in, security and to remember your cookie choice.
- Preference, analytics and marketing cookies are used only if you allow them. Until you make a choice, none of them is set and no analytics or advertising scripts are loaded.
- We use Google Consent Mode: Google tags are told that storage is refused until you consent, and they adapt their behaviour to your choice.
Cookies used on this website
The table below is generated from the site's own cookie register and also lists the items we keep in your browser's local storage. Services marked "Not currently used" are not active on this website; they are listed so that you know what would be set if we enable them.
Strictly necessary
Required for the site to work: your session, cart, quotation list, sign-in, security and the choices you make on this banner. These cannot be switched off.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mc_sid | Maccar Medical | Keeps your session: shopping cart, quotation list, sign-in and protection against cross-site request forgery. | Until you close the browser | |
mc_cart | Maccar Medical | Identifies your shopping cart so the items you added are kept between visits. | 60 days | |
mc_remember | Maccar Medical | Keeps you signed in when you choose "Keep me signed in". Set only at your request. | 30 days | |
mc_currency | Maccar Medical | Remembers the display currency you selected. Set only when you change the currency. | 1 year | |
mc_consent | Maccar Medical | Stores your cookie choices and the version of this policy you responded to. | 180 days | |
mc:announce | Maccar Medical | Remembers that you closed the announcement bar, so that it stays closed. Saved only when you close it. | Until you clear your browser data | |
mc:catalog-view | Maccar Medical | Remembers whether you chose the grid or the list view in the catalogue. Saved only when you switch the view. | Until you clear your browser data |
Preferences
Remember optional settings that make the site easier to use, such as the products you viewed recently.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
mc_recent | Maccar Medical | Remembers the products you viewed recently so we can show them again. | 30 days |
Analytics
Help us understand how the site is used — which pages are visited and where visitors have difficulties — so we can improve it. Statistics are aggregated.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors to produce aggregated usage statistics. | 2 years | |
_ga_* | Google Analytics | Keeps the state of the current analytics session. | 2 years |
Marketing
Used by advertising partners (Google, Meta, LinkedIn) to measure our campaigns and show relevant adverts on other websites.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au | Google Ads | Links visits to Google adverts so that conversions can be measured. | 90 days | |
_fbp | Meta (Facebook) | Measures the results of Meta adverts and builds audiences for them. | 90 days | |
li_fat_id | Attributes visits and conversions to LinkedIn adverts. | 30 days | ||
bcookie | Browser identifier used by the LinkedIn Insight Tag (with related cookies lidc and UserMatchHistory). | 1 year | ||
vuid | Vimeo | Set by the Vimeo player when you play an embedded video. Videos load only when you press play or have allowed marketing cookies. | 2 years | |
yt-remote-*, ytidb::* | YouTube (youtube-nocookie.com) | Saved by the privacy-enhanced YouTube player when you play an embedded video. Videos load only when you press play or have allowed marketing cookies. | Until you clear your browser data |
Third-party providers set and read their own cookies according to their privacy policies: Google (policies.google.com), Meta (facebook.com/privacy) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy). When you pay online you are taken to the secure page of our payment provider, which may set its own cookies under that provider's policies.
Managing your choice
- You can change your choice at any time with the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of every page or the button on this page.
- When you withdraw consent, we delete the optional cookies set on our domain and reload the page without the services you refused.
- You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block strictly necessary cookies, the cart, sign-in and checkout will not work.
How long your choice is kept
Your choice is stored for 180 days. We ask again when that period ends, or earlier if we change this policy in a way that affects your choice. The current version of this policy is 1. We keep a record of each choice — an anonymous consent identifier, the categories accepted, the policy version, the date and a one-way hash of your IP address — as proof of consent.
Contact
Questions about cookies or your personal data can be sent to privacy@maccar.uk.