Cookie Policy

This is the Cookies Policy of The Auctionist (“us“, “we” or “our“).

This Cookies Policy forms part of theauctionist.com Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy“). If you have any data privacy queries or requests in relation to your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website to your computer that are stored on your hard drive when you visit certain online pages of our website. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers.
Cookies may be essential to enable you to move around our website, webpage or mobile application and use its features, which may not work properly, or at all, if you do not allow these cookies to be used. Cookies allow the website to identify and interact with your computer (for example so we can remember your login details if you have opted to ‘stay signed in’). For example, some cookies are used by us to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. The cookies collect information, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

2. the types of cookies that we use:

2.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to visit our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Most of the functions on our website will not work properly if you do not allow these cookies to be used. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and place bids. We may not be able to provide many of the services you may wish to request unless you accept the use of these cookies.

2.2 Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, e.g. which pages visitors go to most often. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are visiting it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that visitors are finding what they are looking for easily. [These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor: all information these cookies collect is aggregated and is therefore anonymous. The information is only used to improve how the website works.]

2.3 Functionality cookies
We use third party functionality cookies to personalise our content for you and make your browsing experience more convenient. These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username) and provide enhanced, more personal features (for example, remembering changes you have made to text size and fonts). These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to greet you by name and remember your preferences for example, your choice of language or region and allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.

2.4 Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They are anonymous so cannot be used to identify individuals. 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.

2.5 Third party advertising and analytics cookies
We use third party analytics software to collect data about traffic to our site and how visitors use our site via a display advertising cookie. The display advertising cookie allows advertising to be targeted to you based on your preferences, browsing habits on our site, the type of ads you show an interest in and other data the third party may collect from your visits to other sites outside the control of The Auctionist. These cookies are used for statistical analysis by allowing the third party to count how many people have seen the advertisement or have seen it more than once, limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and/or help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They might also allow the third party to tailor advertising to you when you visit other websites. None of these cookies store personally identifiable information and we only use trusted advertising partners. These third parties will have their own privacy policies and they may be different from ours.

A. your cookies setting
You can set your browser to accept or reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. If you reject cookies or delete our cookies, you may still use our websites, but you may have reduced functionality and access to certain areas of our websites or your account. Your continued use of our website is your acceptance of our continued use of cookies on our website.

B. Notifications to your mobile devices
We may deliver information or notifications to your phone or mobile device. You can disable these notifications by changing the settings in either the app or on your mobile device.

C. Changes to our cookies policy
We reserve the right to amend or update this Cookies Policy at any time. We will notify users by posting any updated policy on this page and such changes will be effective immediately and without further notice. Where appropriate, we may notify you directly of changes to this Cookies Policy either through email or a prominent notice on our website.