THINK HIRE LIMITED COOKIE POLICY

Our website (www.thinkhire.co.uk) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) sets out the types of cookies we use, the purpose of using them, the duration of each cookie, and any third parties that may also use cookies.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our privacy policy which is available at https://www.thinkhire.co.uk/privacy-notice/ and which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information in relation to our website as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

Who we are:

We are, Think Hire Limited (also referred to as “we”, “our”, or “us”). We are registered in England and Wales under the company number and having our registered office at 11375414 Waldron House Drury Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, England, OL9 8EU.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data, and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

Our use of cookies:

We will as for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

If you consent to the use of cookies on our website, this consent will last for the period noted in the table below. After the expiry of this period, we will seek your consent again for the use of cookies when you access the website again. If you do not select agree or disagree to our use of cookies or do not agree to the use of cookies, the cookie consent message will appear each time you access our website.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
• Analytical cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Third Party Cookies. Please note that the certain third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties below may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Cookie key:	Domain:	Type:	Duration:	Purpose:
AnalyticsSyncHistory	.linkedin.com	Third-party	1 month	Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries.
PHPSESSID	www.thinkhire.co.uk	First-party	Session	Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.
li_gc	.linkedin.com	Third-party	6 months	Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.

Performance Cookies

Cookie key:	Domain:	Type:	Duration:	Purpose:
_ga_4SRPMTLQPT	.thinkhire.co.uk	First-party	1 year 1 month	This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state.
_ga	www.thinkhire.co.uk	First-party	1 year 1 month	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

Targeting Cookies

Cookie key:	Domain:	Type:	Duration :	Purpose:
IDE	.doubleclick.net	Third-party	1 year	This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
_fbp	.thinkhire.co.uk	First-party	3 months	Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
lidc	.linkedin.com	Third-party	1 day	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.
UserMatchHistory	.linkedin.com	Third-party	1 month	This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences.
_gcl_au	.thinkhire.co.uk	First-party	3 months	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
bscookie	.www.linkedin.com	Third-party	1 year	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
li_sugr	.linkedin.com	Third-party	3 months	LinkedIn Insight Tag, when IP address is not in a Designated Country.
test_cookie	.doubleclick.net	Third-party	15 minutes	This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.
bcookie	.linkedin.com	Third-party	1 year	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.

Managing Cookies:

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies .

This will allow you to choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions relating to this Cookie Policy, please contact us by emailing us at  info@thinkhire.co.uk.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy was published on October 31st 2024 and was last updated on November 20th 2024.

We may change this Cookie Policy from time to time, when we do, we will inform you via email or by posting an updated policy on the website.