01. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Car Shipping Direct LTD uses cookies and similar technologies on this website. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data more generally. We follow the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) and the UK GDPR, together with guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office.
Our aim is simple: use as few cookies as possible, explain clearly what each one does, and make sure you stay in control.
03. Categories of cookies we use
Strictly necessary
These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, load balancing and the secure submission of quotation and booking forms. They do not identify you personally and do not require consent.
Functional
These cookies remember choices such as form fields you have started, preferred service or destination, so you do not need to re-enter them. Disabling them may make some features less convenient.
Analytics and performance
These cookies collect aggregated information about how visitors use the site, such as which country pages and shipping guides are most popular and where visitors leave. This helps us improve content and fix problems. We only set them with your consent.
Third party embedded content
Our contact page embeds Google Maps so you can find our office in East Tilbury. Google may set cookies when the map loads. These are governed by Google's own privacy policy.
Marketing
If we run advertising campaigns, marketing cookies may be used to measure whether an advertisement led to an enquiry. These are only set with your consent and can be refused without affecting your use of the site.
05. How we obtain consent
Strictly necessary cookies are set automatically because the site cannot work without them. All other cookies are only set after you have given consent, which you can give or refuse freely. Refusing non essential cookies will not stop you requesting a quote, making a booking or contacting us.
Changing your mind
You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing cookies in your browser. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before you withdrew.
06. How to control and delete cookies
Most browsers let you view, block and delete cookies through their settings:
- Google Chrome: Settings, Privacy and security, Third party cookies.
- Safari: Settings, Privacy, Manage Website Data.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings, Privacy and Security, Cookies and Site Data.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings, Cookies and site permissions.
- Mobile devices: use the privacy settings of your device browser.
Blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, may prevent forms and some pages from working correctly. You can also opt out of many analytics providers using tools they publish, and of interest based advertising at youronlinechoices.com.
07. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. Where we are able to detect such signals, we treat them as a refusal of non essential cookies.
08. Personal data collected through cookies
Some cookies collect information that can count as personal data, such as an IP address or device identifier. Where this happens, we handle it in line with our Privacy Policy, including your rights to access, erase and object. We configure analytics to minimise data, for example by anonymising IP addresses where the provider allows it.
09. Updates to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add or remove technologies or when guidance changes. The date at the top of the contents panel shows when it was last revised. Please check back periodically.
Contact us about this document
Car Shipping Direct LTD, company number 17331791. Registered office: Unit 62A, Thames Industrial Park, Princess Margaret Road, East Tilbury, RM18 8RH. Telephone 020 3807 1033. Email info@shipcarsuk.co.uk.