COOKIES POLICY

LAST UPDATED: Tuesday, June 14, 2022

This Cookies Policy (this “Cookies Policy”) describes how Virtual Pharmacists Limited (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies on https://virtualpharmacist.co.uk/services/ (the “Website”). We recommend that you also go through our Privacy Policy, which may be found at  https://virtualpharmacist.co.uk/services/, for additional information on how we collect and use information collected from Users who visit our Website.  

The Company may modify this Cookies Policy from time to time, and any amendments or variations to it shall take effect from their date of publication on the Website.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

When you visit a website, cookies are text files containing small amounts of information downloaded to your browsing device (such as a computer or smartphone). Cookies can be recognized by the website that downloaded them — or other websites that use the same cookies. This helps websites know if the browsing device has visited them before.

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR?

Cookies do many jobs, like helping us understand how the Website is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience. We use cookies on the Website and associated domains of the Website for the following purposes:  

1. Authentication, Customization, Security, and Other Functional Cookies: Cookies help us verify your device, so we can make it easier for you to access the Website and/or the Website services and provide the appropriate experiences and features. We also use cookies to remember your choices on the Website, such as your language preference.    

2. Performance and Analytics: Cookies help us analyse how the Website and/or the Website services is/are being accessed and used and enable us to track the Website’s performance. For example, we use cookies to determine if you viewed a page or opened an email. This helps us provide you with information that you find interesting.  

3. Third Parties: Third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your browsing device through our Website.

4. Website Ads: We partner with third-party publishers, advertising networks, and service providers to manage our ads on other websites. Our third-party partners may set cookies on your device or browser to gather information about your activities on the Website and other sites you visit to provide you with Website ads. For example, if you visit our Website and also use a social media platform, you may see our Website ad in your social media newsfeed or timeline.  

3. WHAT OTHER COOKIES DO WE USE?

Our Website uses cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, and/ or a third-party ad serving software to gather non-personal identifiable information about Users on our Website. Information such as user activity on our Website, and information they are searching on our Website, we use this information to deliver User-specific advertisements on our Website. You can choose to opt-out of receiving such advertisements by emailing us.  We may share this non-personal identifiable information with our third-party advertising companies. The sharing with third-party is done to facilitate targeted advertisements on our Website.  These third-party may use this non-personal identifiable information in combination with similar non-personal identifiable information collected from other websites. Their respective privacy policy governs these third parties’ collection and utilization of information. We may use different kinds of cookies for various reasons, including but not limited to:

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the Website and use its features. Some services you have asked for, such as payment submission, cannot be provided without these cookies.

2. Session Cookies: Session cookies, also known as ‘temporary cookies’, help websites recognize users and the information provided when navigating a website. Session cookies only retain information about a user’s activities for as long as they are on the website. Once the web browser is closed, the cookies are deleted. 

3. Secure Cookies: These cookies help authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. 

4. Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Website, for example, which pages you go to most often and if you get error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not gather the information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how a website works.

5. Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember your choices (such as your language or region). These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, font, and other parts of pages that you can customize. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

6. Flash Cookies: We may, in certain circumstances, use Adobe Flash Player to deliver special content, such as video clips or animation. To improve your user experience, Local Shared Objects (commonly known as “Flash cookies”) are employed to provide functions such as remembering your settings and preferences. Flash cookies are stored on your device, but they are managed through an interface different from the one provided by your web browser. This means it is impossible to manage Flash cookies through your browser the same way you would normally manage cookies. Instead, you can access your Flash management tools from Adobe’s website here.

7. Tailored Content Cookies: Tailored content cookies help the Website provide enhanced features and display content in a way that is relevant to you. These cookies help the Website determine what information to show you based on how you have used the Website previously. These cookies do not track your browsing activity on other websites.

8. Targeting Cookies: These cookies deliver more relevant advertisements to your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers. This means after you have been to the Website, you may see some advertisements about our Website services elsewhere on the Internet.

9. Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow the entity in charge to track and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by these cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications, or platforms and to compile browsing profiles of the users of these websites, applications, and platforms to make improvements based on analysing the data on how users use the service.

4. HOW LONG WILL COOKIES STAY ON YOUR BROWSING DEVICE?

The time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your browsing device until they expire or are deleted.

5. HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES THROUGH YOUR BROWSER?

The browser you are using to view the Website can enable, disable, or delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help,” “Tools” or “Edit” facility). Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Website, and other parts may also not work properly. 

6. HOW CAN YOU CONTROL OR OPT-OUT OF COOKIES?

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our Website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default. Still, you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether or notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each device. Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your website experience, blocking all cookies may mean you cannot access certain features and content across the sites you visit.

7. CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us by email at hello@virtualpharmacist.co.uk, by post to Stonehill 4 Peplow Close Burton Salmon Leeds LS 25 5RA, or by phone on 01138715065.

You acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accepted to be bound by this Cookies Policy.