Date of publication: 21 November 2023
Like many companies, Petlab Group Limited trading as Petlab, (âPetlabâ, we, us and our) uses cookies on our website thepetlabco.com (our website) to collect information that allows our website to work and to help us to enhance your online experience, discover how you use our website, measure the effectiveness of our web pages and understand what information is most useful to visitors. We may also use certain types of cookies to provide you with advertisements (including advertisements displayed on other websites) about our products and services that may be of interest to you, and which may be displayed to you based on your behaviour on our website and other online activities on other websites, commonly referred to as behavioural advertising.
This Cookie Policy explains what types of cookies are used on our website and the purposes for which we use them. Our Privacy Policy at https://www.petlabco.co.uk/pages/privacy-statement provides further information about how we protect and use your information that we collect when you use our website. You should read the Privacy Policy alongside this Cookie Policy.Â
We may periodically update the cookies we use and this Cookie Policy. If we do, you will be notified when you next visit our website and you will be able to view the updated Cookie Policy. You can also revisit this page at any time if you wish to keep yourself informed.
A cookie is a text file containing information that is downloaded to your desktop or laptop computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit our website. Cookies are useful because they allow our website to recognise your device. Cookies are then sent back to our website each time you visit, enabling our site to ârememberâ you or your device. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by another website.
When we refer to cookies throughout this Cookie Policy, we intend to cover all similar technologies, including web beacons and log files.Â
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by category (ie. performance, functional etc). You may choose whether or not to accept or decline our use of cookies by following the âmanage cookiesâ link in our cookies banner which appears when you first access our website (and occasionally thereafter) or at any other time by following the Cookie Settings link that can be found on the footer of our website and making your selections. If you choose to decline all cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our website.
We may also use other technologies with similar functionality to cookies, such as web beacons and tracking URLs. We may also use web beacons and tracking URLs in emails to determine whether a recipient opened the email or accessed a certain link. All of these technologies are included in the definition of âcookiesâ as used in this policy.
We may use the following cookies:
The length of time that cookies are stored on your device can vary, but they generally fall into two categories: session or persistent cookies.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the Cookie List section at the bottom of this page.
The law allows us to store cookies on your computer if they are essential to the operation of our website. We need your consent to set non-essential cookies on your computer. By not disabling our use of categories of cookies as described above, you hereby consent to our placement of non-disabled cookies on your device and our collection and use of the information contained in those cookies.
When you use our website for the first time we give you the opportunity to accept or decline cookies and you can amend your cookie preferences at any time by visiting our Cookie Settings link in the footer of our website.
If you wish to withdraw consent for any reason, please contact DPO@thepetlabco.comÂ
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. For information about this you should look in your browserâs âhelpâ facility. However, 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.
Some of the cookies we use are essential if the website is to operate properly. If you decline them, some of the features of the website may not work as well as we intend and you may not be to access or use some features.
Unless you have set your browser so that it will decline all cookies, our system will set essential cookies as soon you use the website.Â
If you have previously used our website and/or services and no longer wish to accept cookies, you should be aware that some cookies will have been set. You may delete these cookies at any time by following the instructions at:Â https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/
More information on cookies can be found on allaboutcookies.org.
If you have allowed advertising cookies, you may separately be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from advertisers or advertising networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or who subscribe to the Digital Advertising Allianceâs Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out sections on the websites of each of those organizations. Links to those sites are here:
Network Advertising Initiative: Â https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
Digital Advertising Alliance:Â https://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (âGoogleâ). Google Analytics works using cookies. Google Analytics cookies collect your IP address; however, because IP anonymization is used on this website, your IP address will be shortened (and therefore anonymized) as soon as technically possible and before it is stored or otherwise used in connection with Google Analytics. The anonymization process takes place within the European Union or the European Economic Area, except in exceptional cases, where your full IP address may be sent to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. We use the information collected by Google Analytics cookies to find out about how visitors use our website. Google will not combine the IP address sent by your browser in connection with Google Analytics with other data. You can prevent Google Analytics cookies from being stored by setting your browser software accordingly.Â
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all website, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.Â
Effective date: 03 February 2022
As described below, our website may use various advertising cookies, including advertising cookies used by advertising services provided by Google. These advertising cookies are based on your prior visits to our and other website are used by Google and others to help serve the advertisements it displays on the websites of its partners based on your visit to our website and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt-out of the use of these advertising cookies by disabling advertising cookies as described above. While we do not control the collection or use of your information by third parties (including Google) to serve behavioural advertising, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used for behavioural advertising. You can learn more about interest-based advertising and your opt-out rights and options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (âNAIâ) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org) and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website  (www.aboutads.info).  You can specifically opt-out of Googleâs use of your information for behavioural advertising by adjusting your preferences on Googleâs Ads Settings.
Please see the following link for more information about how Google uses information from their sites or apps that use their service: Googleâs Privacy & Terms site.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our use of cookies, or if you want to exercise any of your data protection rights, you can contact us at  DPO@thepetlabco.com.
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