Introduction
At Fuel Fighter we want to make sure that the website we operate looks as good as possible but also is easy for you to use. To help us to do this, our website uses cookies. Cookies help us to assess how you use our website and also how we can improve our website. This means we have the information we need to regularly evaluate whether our website really meets your needs. Some of the cookies we use improve the functionality of our website, so if you choose to disable cookies on your browser, you might find that you can't access some aspects of our website, or that parts of the website don't function in the way that you might expect them to.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. Cookies allow us to recognise that you have visited our website before and remember your preferences. Cookies can help us to remember your website login so that you don't need to type it into the website every time you return, or to remember the goods that you have clicked to purchase on one page so that they are added to your basket. Cookies also help us to collect information about the way you use our website which helps us to ensure any advertising that you see is relevant and useful to you.
How We Use Cookies
Cookies allow us 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 to improve our website. We are required by law to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies that we use and if this page does not answer all of your queries you should contact us. Our cookies do not store information which could be used to identify you personally, such as your contact details.
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/Performance Cookies
They 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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
Cookie Name Purpose
3rd Party Cookies
The information set out in 'How We Use Cookies' relates to the cookies that we set on our website. In addition to these cookies, our website also uses third party cookies which are set by a domain other than our website. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Our website uses Third Party Cookies from the providers below, if you require further information about what those cookies are or how they are used, you should contact those providers directly. 3rd Party: Google.
Additional Information: We utilise the online advertising services of the third party companies listed, and each of their sites may set cookies to help identify which adverts are clicked on/interacted with.
The cookies we use on our site are listed below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | More Information |
| Google Analytics (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz _ga_#, _gat, _gid) | We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our site, in order to help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages they visited. The _gat cookie is used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Further information about these cookies is available at http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html and to understand how Google will use the data it collects, you can read more about this on Google's Privacy & Terms site by clicking here |
| BasketID | We use this cookie to allow you to order products on our site. The cookie stores all the essential information and keeps track of the items that you place in your shopping basket. | This cookie is necessary for you to place orders on our site, but it will expire one day after it is activated. |
| ASP.NET_SessionID | This cookie allows us to recognise your session on our site. | This cookie will expire when you exit your browser. |
| c_person_idc_session_id | This cookie integrates with our web platform to help us personalise the site for you. | No personal information is kept. |
| [Guid]_Viewed[Guid]_Dismissed | We use these cookie values to not show you pop ups we have already shown you so we don’t interrupt your browsing unnecessarily | |
| twk_idm_key | Allows the website to recoqnise the visitor, in order to optimize the chat-box functionality | |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party
advertisers. | |
| _uetsid | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement
- Th is also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement | |
| _uetsid_exp | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name | |
| _uetvid | Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor
's preferences | |
| _uetvid_exp | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name | |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the
visitor's on line behaviour across websites | To understand how Google will use the data it collects, you can read more about this on Google's Privacy & Terms site by clicking here |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's action s 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 | |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | :Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. | |
| tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party
advertisers | |
| PHPSESSID | A session identifier cookie that disappears after the browser is closed. This is a unique ID that references the database entry holding information such as the basket contents, logged in status and other information. | |
| eshop_username / eshop_password | The login details of the visitor but only if the visitor selected for the website to remember their credentials. | |
| shop_currency | An identifier that references the currency the prices are displayed in. | |
How Do I Block Cookies?
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. Precisely how cookies are blocked will depend upon the browser that you use.
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