Cookies and your privacy
What are cookies?
Cookies ares small packets of information saved to your computer when you browse a website. They then communicate with the website to assist your experience on the site or provide data to site owners on your interactions with the site (known as analytics). These data packets can also store information such as which items you have added to a shopping cart, or to remember if you have logged into a site for example.
A new EU cookie law states that websites should advise visitors of any cookies in use and gain consent to use these (unless they provide essential support to the site, i.e. the ability to add products to a shopping cart, in which case consent is not required).
For further information on cookies see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
For further information on the new EU law see http://www.cookielaw.org/
What cookies do we use?
Our website uses an integrated PayPal shopping cart. This means that purchasing from our site will request a PayPal cookie(s) to be used for your session. The cookie(s) allows you to build a shopping basket with products then passes this information to PayPal when you are ready to checkout. The cookie(s) is required for you to make a purchase from us on the website, however the cookie(s) and its content are owned and controlled by PayPal. The use of the cookie(s) does not require visitors consent as its needed for the site to offer transactional purchases.
We also use Google Analytic tracking code to monitor visitor engagement with our site. Currently any interaction with our site will trigger Google to deploy a cookie(s) to your computer and track your progress through our site. Google Analytics is reportedly used by 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites and to date it is unclear on how Google recommend obtaining consent at site level to track visitor engagement, so for now all we can do is advise you that we use this system along with many other websites. Data collected and stored in the Google cookie(s) is owned and controlled by Google.
For more information on Google Analytics and EU Cookie law see http://www.cookielaw.org/google-analytics-eu-cookie-law.aspx
What do we do with your data?
NT-Design does not have direct access to the data stored and collected via the cookies in use on this site by the 3rd party vendors PayPal and Google. The PayPal cookie(s) simply allow transactions and we will receive a confirmation from PayPal upon a successful purchase from our site. Placing an order with us will trigger PayPal to supply us with your standard contact details including your address and phone number registered with PayPal. We would not receive any information around your payment details, PayPal login details or any other data outside of your standard contact details. The information we do receive is then only used to contact you relating to your order and would under no circumstances be passed to any 3rd parties.
The Google Analytic data from the cookie(s) is fed into the Google system and again we do not have direct access to this but we can see in Google's tools how customers engage with our site. This data is anonymous to us and simply provides us with data to help improve our site in the future.
Please contact us with any questions and we will do our best to help.
Last updated January 2012.
