Visitors to our Website
When you visit Pets Microchip to register your pets and search for registere pets microchps, we collect standard internet log information and details of site visitor behaviour patterns. We collect this information in a way which does not identify visitors. We will not associate data collected with any personal identifying information. Personal information is only collected for the legitimate and operational fulfilment of your use of the site products and services.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies are used to make websites work and improve the efficiency of a website. Cookies work to ensure that websites provide effective security and assist a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly - most major websites use cookies.
Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come; the lifetime of the cookie; and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number by which each cookie can be identified.
Cookies that are used on this website now and in the future can be:
Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you close Your browser.
Persistent Cookies: These are stored on your computer until they expire, or you remove them. These can store your personal preferences such as your language preferences on multi-lingual sites to make subsequent visits easier. They also remember questions we have asked you previously.
Third party cookies: We work with third parties who, on our behalf, research the use of our website and activities on it to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing.
This cookie does not contain any personal information that others could read and understand.
From time to time we may also use:
Web Beacons
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web Beacons which allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web Beacons collect only limited information which includes a cookie number; time and date of a page view; and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides.
We may also deploy Web Beacons placed by third party advertisers. These Beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a specific marketing campaign.
How to refuse the use of Cookies
You may refuse the use of cookies by changing your internet browser settings to disable the use of cookies. Please note that a refusal to accept the use of cookies may result in the loss of useful functionality of the site; you may experience slower running times and you may not be able to access all website content.
How to disable Cookies in Your browser
The use of cookies can be prevented by changing your internet browser settings. Each browser has a different procedure for disabling the use of cookies.
Details of how to disable the use of cookies for main browsers is below.
Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0+
Action required: To prevent new cookies from being installed
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Internet Options
- Click on the Privacy tab on top
- Move the slider up to the Block all Cookies button
Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0+
Action required: To delete existing cookies
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Internet Options
- Click on the General tab which should be under Browsing History and click "Delete"
Browser: Internet Explorer 8.0+
Action required: To prevent new cookies from being installed
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Internet Options
- Click on the Privacy tab at the top
- Click on Sites
- A new window should open called Per Site Privacy Actions
- Type in the URL of the site in the Address of website box and click on Block
Browser: Internet Explorer 8.0+
Action required: To delete existing cookies
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Internet Options
- Click on the Privacy tab on top
- Click on Sites
- A new window should open called Per Site Privacy Actions
- Under the Managed websites box should be a list of all the websites You have visited
- To remove all cookies, click on the Remove all button
Browser: Internet Explorer 7.0+
Action required: To prevent new cookies from being installed
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Options
- Click on the Privacy tab on top
- Click on the Advanced button
- Select Prompt for both First party cookies and Third Party Cookies
Browser: Internet Explorer 7.0+
Action required: To delete existing cookies
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Options
- Click on the General tab on top
- In the Browsing History section, click on Delete
- Click on "Delete Cookies"
Browser: Firefox 2.0+, 3.0+, 4.0+
Action required: To prevent new cookies from being installed
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Options
- Click on the Privacy tab
- Disable the box that says Accept Cookies From sites
Browser: Firefox 2.0+, 3.0+, 4.0+
Action required: To delete existing cookies
Process:
- Go to Tools in the menu bar
- Click on Options
- Click on the Privacy tab
- Click on Clear Now
- Select Cookies
- Click on Clear Private Data Now
Browser: Google Chrome
Action required: To prevent new cookies from being installed
Process:
- Click on the spanner icon in the top right of the browser
- Click on Options
- Click on Under the Bonnet (UK) / Under the Hood (US)
- Click on the Content settings button in the Privacy section
- Ensure that Allow local data to be set is selected
- Select Block sites from setting any data
Browser: Google Chrome
Action required: To delete existing cookies
Process:
- Click on the spanner icon in the top right of the browser
- Click on Options
- Click on Under the Bonnet (UK) / Under the Hood"(US)
- Click on the Content settings button in the Privacy section
- Click on the Clear browsing databutton
Browser: Safari
Action required: To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing
Process:
- Go to the Safari menu (icon in top right of browser) and select Preferences
- In the popup window that appears, select the Security icon (a padlock)
- Under Accept Cookies, select the Never button