Our products don't cost the earth!

Innovation - Quality - Sustainability

Since 1984

Our products don't cost the earth!

Innovation - Quality - Sustainability

Since 1984

Our products don't cost the earth!

Innovation - Quality - Sustainability

Since 1984

Our products don't cost the earth!

Innovation - Quality - Sustainability

Since 1984

Our products don't cost the earth!

Innovation - Quality - Sustainability

Since 1984

Our products don't cost the earth!

Innovation - Quality - Sustainability

Since 1984

Cookies Notice

Cookies Notice


 OTLGroup+companies

The OTL Group is a group of registered companies that manufacture and design high performance, innovative and niche solutions. 

The OTL Group covers the following companies and divisions:

  • Oil Technics (Holdings) Ltd.
  • Oil Technics Ltd.
  • Oil Technics (Fire Fighting Products) Ltd.
  • Aberdeen Foam
  • Bio Technics Ltd.
  • Endurocide®

This Cookies Notice is issued on behalf of the OTL Group of Companies, so when we mention “the OTL Group”, "we", "us" or "our" in this Cookies Notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the OTL Group responsible for the data. 

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What are Cookies in Computers

Cookies, browser cookies and tracking cookies are small (often encrypted) text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit and are located in your browser directories.

Cookies are created when a user’s browser loads a particular website; this website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time the user goes back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends this file to the website's server.

They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. For more information on cookies, please visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org

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Use of Cookies by the OTL Group

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Our websites:

We use:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for the operation of our site (for example, to add our products to your shopping cart).
  • Analytical/ performance cookies: they allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functional cookies: these cookies enable functionality for visitors to our website.

 Cookie

Purpose

Duration

 Session cookies

Our websites only use session cookies.

This cookie allows our website’s server to identify a user during a session, enabling information like products in a shopping basket to be remembered from page to page. This information is stored on the server for the duration of the session only. Only the session ID is stored temporarily on the user's computer.

We do not use persistent cookies which means that the site will not remember who users are when they visit again later.

We do not associate the information stored in a user's cookie with any other personal data about that user.

Duration of the session only

 _ga Google Analytics

This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number for a client identifier. It is included in each page requests within a site and used to calculate a visitor’s session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports.

We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.

For more details on Google Analytics, please read their Privacy & Safeguarding Data Policies  

2 years

 

Third Party Cookies:

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services or payment solutions etc.) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies but could include targeting cookies.

The below table highlights some of the third party providers we either use and/or link to on our websites:

 Cookie

Purpose

 Issuu

We use Issuu to generate online brochures.  Issuu may use cookies for providing you with a personalised experience, learning how you use Issuu to improve products etc.

For information about Issuu cookies, please read their Cookies Statement.

 Google

Google may use a number of cookies on our sites, such as:

  • _ga - This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number for a client identifier. It is included in each page requests within a site and used to calculate a visitor’s session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. Duration: 2 years
  • _gaexp - This cookie is used to determine a user’s inclusion in an A/B experiment via Google Optimize and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. Google Optimize is used to enhance user experience on our website. Duration: 90 days
  • _gat_UA-**** - This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics. It is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. Duration: 1 min
  • _gid - This cookie is associated with Google Analytics. It is used to distinguish users. Duration: 24 hours
  • _gcl_au - Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across web sites using their services. It is the first party cookie for “Conversion Linker” functionality – it takes information in ad clicks and stores it in a first-party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside the landing page. Duration 90 days
  • gcl_aw - Created by Google Adwords, these cookies store any ad click information, generates unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and to track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the website. Duration: 90 days
  • _gac_** - Advertising cookies that may be set on the domain of the site you’re visiting. Unlike cookies that are set on Google’s own domains, these cookies can’t be read by Google when you’re on a site other than the one on which they were set. They serve purposes such as measuring interactions with the ads on that domain and preventing the same ads from being shown to you too many times. Duration: 90 days
  • IDE - Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. Duration: 1 year 24 days

For more details on Google, please read their Privacy & Safeguarding Data Policies.

 Jotform

Jotform uses cookies to allow auto fill features to be used on forms.  This will result in persistent cookies being stored on your computer to allow you to automatically fill items of the form again in the future, e.g. your name and billing address etc.

Jotform also use:

  • guest - guest user id for identifying the user on next visit to Jotform

  • theme - Displayed theme for the user for next visit

  • userReferer - This is the page the form submitted

  • PHPSESSID - PHP session id for the session data

  • __cfduid - Cloudflare cookie that you can find details about it here

 For more details on Jotform, please read their Privacy Policy.

 MailChimp

 

We use MailChimp to send our marketing emails.  MailChimp use cookies including single pixel gifs, known as web beacons, in every marketing email sent.  These enable us to recognise when subscribers have opened emails or clicked on certain links.  This records each subscriber’s email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. We use this data to create reports about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took.

For information about MailChimp cookies, please read their Cookies Statement.

 Microsoft

Microsoft may use a number of cookies on our sites, such as:

  • MUID - Used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronize the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking. Duration: 1 year 24 days

For more details on Microsoft cookies, please see their Privacy Statement.

 Outbase

We use Outbase to send our prospecting emails. Outbase use a variety of cookies to enable us to recognise when subscribers have opened an email or clicked on certain links. This records each subscriber’s email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. We use this data to create reports about how an email campaign performed.

For information about Outbase cookies, please read their Cookies Policy.

 PayPal

PayPal may use cookies as part of their services to provide payment authentication, fraud prevention and detection and offer site features and services.

For information about PayPal cookies, please read their Cookies Statement.

 Prezi

We embed some presentations on our website using Prezi. Prezi may set cookies on your computer as you reach the page containing the presentation.

For information about Prezi cookies, please read the Prezi Cookies Policy.

 Shopify

We use Shopify for some of our shop functions and as part of their services they use payment authentication, fraud prevention and offer site features and tracking technologies that may be placed on your device to use their services and make purchasing easier.

For information about Shopify cookies, please read their Cookies Policy.

 Stripe

Stripe may use cookies as part of their services to provide payment authentication, fraud prevention and detection and offer site features and services.

For information about Stripe cookies, please read their Cookies Statement.

 Vimeo

We may embed videos from our official Vimeo channel and Vimeo may use cookies for analytics purposes.

For information about Vimeo cookies, please read their Cookies Policy.

 WorldPay

WorldPay may use Cookies as part of their services to provide payment authentication, fraud prevention and detection and offer site features and services.

For information about WorldPay cookies, please read their Cookies Statement.

 You Tube

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.

For more details on YouTube, please read their Privacy Policy.

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Changing your Cookie Settings:

It is possible to disable and remove cookies from your computer or device through your browser settings. Further advise on cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.aboutcookies.org.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies on most mainstream browsers via these links:

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites and if you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout 

However, please be aware that if you use your browser settings to block or amend certain cookies, your browsing experience may change for the worse.

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Changes to this Notice:

We may update, change, modify, add or remove portions of this notice at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately. Please visit this page periodically if you want to keep up to date.

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 Ref: BMS-MC-PO-007 Rev: 2.0. Last reviewed: October 2023.