Cookie Policy
Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, 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
This website is operated by WPL.
Our website
This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, https://www.wplinternational.com
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us to recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
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.
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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical or performance 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.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your permission (“Consent”) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are strictly necessary for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences upon entering the website. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
Our use of cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Category | Name | Purpose | Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we will seek your consent before we place the cookie |
| Necessary
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies |
WordPress_test_cookie | This cookie is used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies | Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie)
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| Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously |
_dc_gtm_UA-# | This cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | No, will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie |
| Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously |
_ga | This cookie registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | No, will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie |
| Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously |
Collect | This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour and tracks visitor devices and marketing channels | No, will therefore request your consent before placing this cookie |
| Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously |
History.store | This cookie contains a visitor ID which is used to track visitors navigation and interaction on the website for internal website-optimization | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
_atuvc | This cookie updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
_atuvs | This cookie ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
_at.cww | This cookie is used by social sharing platform AddThis which is utilised on the site to allow users to share news articles on a variety of social platforms. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
at-lojson-cache-# | This cookie is used by social sharing platform AddThis which is utilised on the site to allow users to share news articles on a variety of social platforms. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
at-rand | This cookie is used by social sharing platform AddThis which is utilised on the site to allow users to share news articles on a variety of social platforms. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
IDE | This cookie is used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
Ioc | This cookie is used to provide geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each othe r are geographically located (state level). | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
uvc | This cookie detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
xtc | This cookie registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
YSC | This cookie registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Initiator: Iframe, page source line number 383 | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
yt-remote-cast-installed | yt-remote-cast-installed cookies are related to YouTube. These embed video on the website and all cookies vary in terms of their function including monitoring play, pause and other use interactions. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
yt-remote-connected-devices | yt-remote-cast-installed cookies are related to YouTube. These embed video on the website and all cookies vary in terms of their function including monitoring play, pause and other use interactions. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
yt-remote-device-id | yt-remote-cast-installed cookies are related to YouTube. These embed video on the website and all cookies vary in terms of their function including monitoring play, pause and other use interactions. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
yt-remote-fast-check-period | yt-remote-cast-installed cookies are related to YouTube. These embed video on the website and all cookies vary in terms of their function including monitoring play, pause and other use interactions. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
yt-remote-session-app | yt-remote-cast-installed cookies are related to YouTube. These embed video on the website and all cookies vary in terms of their function including monitoring play, pause and other use interactions. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
| Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. |
yt-remote-session-name | yt-remote-cast-installed cookies are related to YouTube. These embed video on the website and all cookies vary in terms of their function including monitoring play, pause and other use interactions. | No, will therefore request your consent before |
Third party access to the cookies
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.
www.wplinternational.com is a site operated by WPL. WPL is a trading name of WCS Environmental Engineering Ltd, registered in England and Wales with company number 2583411 at 20, Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HN. WCS Environmental Engineering Ltd is a portfolio company of Marlowe PLC.
Email address: info@wpl.co.uk
Telephone number: +44 (0) 23 9224 2600
Changes to this policy
This policy was published November 2020 and last updated March 2021.
We may change this policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via either email or a notice on our website.
