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Privacy & Cookie Policy

At NovaSparks, we take all reasonable care to prevent any unauthorized access to and use of your personal data. Our staff maintain a responsibility to keep your information confidential and will only use it to offer relevant products and services related to your enquiry. Any personal details that we use to provide or promote our products and services to you (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number, or any details of the services you have purchased or about which you have enquired) will not be passed to any third party organization for marketing purposes without your permission and will not be used by us for any purpose other than the promotion of our products.

Our Cookies Policies

Last updated: 14/06/2012

By using this website, you are consenting to our use of the cookies outlined below. We are not responsible for the use or data collected in any cookies set by third parties. Details of how to control and delete cookies are listed below.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies are not programs and therefore cannot contain viruses or other malicious software. They are purely a string of text and numbers. NovaSparks use cookies as outlined below to help tailor and make our website and your browsing experience better! Your personal data will not be stored for any sinister purposes, please rest assured!

First party cookies

Cookie conset banner (“cookiebannerdismiss”)

We set a cookie called “cookiebannerdismiss” when you click on the OK button on the ‘Cookies notice’ banner served on this website. Once you click the OK button we set a cookie to store this information and then do not serve this banner to you again until either you delete the cookie or the cookie expires.

PHPSESSID cookie (“PHPSESSID”)

This is a session ID cookie which is stored to allow the CMS system which renders each page in the NovaSparks website, know which pages it has rendered during your browsing session. It stores a random number ID which has nothing to do with you or your browsing behaviour.

Anonymous analytics cookies – [Google Analytics] (“__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz”)

Google Analytics is a system used by many websites to record anonymous information about who visits a website. Google set five different cookies with expiry dates ranging from 1 day to 2 years. These cookies are used mainly to differentiate between first time visitors to a website and repeat visitors. They do not contain any personally identifiable information. You can find out more about how Google use cookies at https://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. You can also review Google’s Privacy Policy on analytics here https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. You can opt out of Google Analytics on all sites by installing this browser plugin https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

AddThis social sharing tool (“__atuvc”)

The NovaSparks website uses a third party widget from AddThis.com to allow you to share some of the great content in the site. The AddThis.com sharing widget uses cookies to enable this functionality. NovaSparks is not responsible for the use or data collected in cookies that AddThis may set. More info can be found on AddThis.com website here – https://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

Third party cookies

  • We use an analytics tracking package called Piwik to help tailor the site and make it better for you as a user. You can read more about Piwik here – https://piwik.org/
  • We use AddThis social sharing tool to enable you to share pages from the site. AddThis serve cookies to allow this functionality. More info can be found on AddThis.com website here – https://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

NovaSparks is not responsible for the use or data collected in any cookies set by third parties.

Controlling or deleting cookies

Depending on which web browser you use it is possible to control how cookies are used, or to delete existing cookies from your computer. You can find instructions on how to control the use of cookies, or delete cookies from your computer at https://www.aboutcookies.org.

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

Please remember that if you delete or restrict cookies from the NovaSparks website you may not be able to experience the full benefit of some of the features and services this website has to offer.

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