Cookie Policy

01:00, Wednesday 11th September 2019

Our website uses cookies in accordance with the following cookie policy 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.

Any emails we send you  (whether sent by the Nearcut Group on our behalf or otherwise) use similar technologies to cookies (including tracking pixels). The use of such technologies is essential for us to keep track of the emails we send you and we use such technologies for troubleshooting purposes such as to ensure/improve email deliverability. We do not use such technologies in our emails to you for marketing purposes.

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.

We use the following cookies and similar technologies:

The legal basis for the use of strictly necessary cookies is Art. 6 (1) 1 f) GDPR because the use of cookies lies in our legitimate interest. In case of any other cookies we require your explicit consent. In this case the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) 1 a) GDPR-.

You can find more information about the individual cookies and any similar technologies we use, the purposes for which we use them and our legitimate interests if they are based on them in the table below:

Necessary Name of cookie/similar technologies Purpose and legitimate interest (in case of cookies that are strictly necessary)  Cookies/similar technologies expire after More information Owner
Yes Nearcut session To store your login session. This does not contain your personal information. 1 year Nearcut Group
No _fbp We sometimes advertise with Meta (Facebook) and we use their tracking to see if our advertisements are working. 3 months  See Facebook for more information – here . Meta
No _ga* We use Google analytics to analyse the traffic on our websites. 2 years See Google Analytics for more information – here . Google
No _gcl* We sometimes advertise with Google and we use their tracking to see if our advertisements are working 90 days See Google Ads for more information – here . Google
Yes Remember_me_user_token To capture your "Remember me" preference for the login system, which you choose at the point of login. This does not contain personal information. 1 year Nearcut Group
No R a, r, nr a A random number used for analytics. The cookie is only used after the point of registration and login. If you do not want to enter into the analytics then do not register or log in. 1 year Nearcut Group
Yes source_href, source_domain A string to remember the address of a previous page. This helps with the continuity of the user experience. 1 year Nearcut Group
No ph_* We use Posthog to analyse our product and see what is working or not. This is necessary to provide a great product. 1 year See PostHog for more information – here . PostHog
Yes Emails from us contains image(s) hosted on our servers This technology is essential to inform us as to whether an email we sent to you (on behalf of our client or otherwise) has been opened. This technology is essential for us to keep track of the emails we send, for troubleshooting purposes such as to ensure/improve email deliverability. We may share this information with our client, if the email we sent you was sent on behalf of that client using our booking system/services, for this purpose. Email is opened for the first time Nearcut Group
Yes basket_token This is the ID for your basket of items in the checkout process. 1 year Nearcut Group
Yes cookieconsent_status We use this cookie to remember that you have agreed to the cookie policy, so that we don’t request your permission again. 1 year Nearcut Group
Yes check_can_set_cookie This is a test cookie to evaluate whether you have cookies enabled 1 year Nearcut Group
Yes homepage_alert This cookie is used to remember whether the popup notice has been shown to you before, if enabled on the booking system 1 year Nearcut Group
Yes client_token, app_confirm_user_token, check_email We sometimes set this to remember your previous sign up, to save you from signing up multiple times. 1 year Nearcut Group
Yes locale To store which language you have chosen to view the website in. 1 year Nearcut Group

Unless otherwise stated in this cookie policy, we do not share the information collected by the cookies and similar technologies with any third parties.

Please note that we work with the following third parties who may also use cookies on our website, over which we have no control:

These third parties (who are responsible for the cookies they set on our website) may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies. 

You can withdraw your consent at any time by setting your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, if you do not give your consent, withdraw it, disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Except for essential cookies or similar technologies, all cookies or similar technologies will expire as outlined in the table above.