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Cookie Policy

Martek Lifecare’s Cookie Policy 

This Website is owned and managed by Martek Marine Limited. This cookie policy explains the type of cookies used on this Website (www.martek-lifecare.com) together with their purpose. This policy was last updated September 2024. 

This Website is operated by Martek Marine Ltd (“Martek” or “We” or “Us” or “Our”) and is made available to You (“You” or “Your”).  Martek’s Website uses cookies to distinguish You from other users of Our Website. This helps Us to provide You with a good experience and enables Us to improve the Website. 

Please read this cookie policy in conjunction with Our Website terms and conditions and Our privacy statement.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on Your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies provide information on how visitors are using the Martek website in order to help Us improve the experience for our customers and to make Our website more efficient. Some of the cookies We use are necessary to enable You to navigate the website and use its features. 

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Why do we use cookies on Our Website? 

We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below. 

How can I control cookies? 

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services. 

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. 

The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit:  

Essential website cookies:

Cookie Name Company Purpose ExpiryFunctionality 
OptanonAlertBoxClosed OneTrust Consent Management 1 yearSet by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and, in some cases, only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one-year lifespan and contains no personal information. 
OptanonConsent OneTrust Functional 1 yearSet by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. 
wordpress_test_cookie WordPress Functional Session This cookie reads if cookies can be placed and are turned on at browser level.  
_vis_opt_test_cookie Visual Website Optimizer A/B Testing Session This cookie reads if cookies can be placed and are turned on at a browser level. 
_GRECAPTCHA Google Security 6 months This cookie provides spam protection on form fill outs. 
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. 

Performance and functionality cookies:

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Websites but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable. 

Cookie Name Company Purpose Expiry Functionality 
wow.schedule Gatorleads Contact Forms 1 day This cookie is used in context with load balancing – This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or disk drivers. 

 Analytics and customization cookies: 

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Websites for you. 

Cookie Name Company Purpose Expiry Functionality 
_vis_opt_s Visual Website Optimizer A/B Testing 100 days This cookie tracks and stores unique visits to the website. 
_vwo_ds Visual Website Optimizer A/B Testing 3 months Collects data related to user visits to the website, such as number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, for the purpose of generating reports to optimize website content. 
_vwo_sn Visual Website Optimizer A/B Testing Session Collects statistics about user visits to the website, such as number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been read. 
_vwo_uuid Visual Website Optimizer A/B Testing 13 months Ensures that the same user interface variant is displayed on each visit, if the user is participating in a design experiment by creating unique user IDs. 
_vwo_uuid_2 Visual Website Optimizer A/B Testing 1 year This cookie is set to perform a split test on the website, which refines the relevance of the website to the visitor. 
sbjs_current Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie stores browser details. 
sbjs_current_add Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie is to identify the source of a visit and store user action information about it for improving the visitor experience on the website. 
sbjs_first Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie is to identify the source of a visit and store user action information about it for improving the visitor experience on the website. 
sbjs_first_add Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie is to identify the source of a visit and store user action information about it for improving the visitor experience on the website. 
sbjs_migration Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie is to identify the source of a visit and store user action information about it for improving the visitor experience on the website. 
sbjs_session Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie is to identify the source of a visit and store user action information about it for improving the visitor experience on the website. 
sbjs_udata Sourcebuster JS Statistics 6 months This cookie is to identify the source of a visit and store user action information about it for improving the visitor experience on the website. 
wow.session Gatorleads Contact Forms 1 day Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. 
wow.anonymousIdGatorleads Contact Forms 2 years Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. 
wow.data Gatorleads Contact Forms Session Used by the website to gather information on the user’s behavior, preferences and personal data – This information is sent to a third-party marketing and analysis service, for optimization of the website’s advertisement, analysis and general traffic. 
wow.trackingData Gatorleads Contact Forms Session Tracks the individual sessions on the website, allowing the website to compile statistical data from multiple visits. This data can also be used to create leads for marketing purposes. 
_ga Google Analytics Statistics 2 years This cookie enables Google Analytics to store and count pageviews. 
SAPISID Google Statistics 2 years Google may set this cookie on your phone, tablet or computer once you click on the YouTube video player. This cookie collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube. 
SID Google Statistics 2 years Google may set this cookie on your phone, tablet or computer once you click on the YouTube video player. This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. Used to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services. 
SIDCC Google Security 1 year Google may set this cookie on your phone, tablet or computer once you click on the YouTube video player. This is a security cookie that protects the user data from unauthorised access. 
ADS_VISITOR_ID Google Advertising 2 years This cookie tracks users from pay-per-click advertising via Google Search Results  
SSID Google Statistics 2 years Google may set this cookie on your phone, tablet or computer once you click on the YouTube video player. Used to collect visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on maps integrated with Google Maps. 

How can I control cookies on my browser? 

As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers: 

  • Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Edge
  • Opera

In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit: Digital Advertising Alliance.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons? 

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning. 

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects? 

Websites may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations. 

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content. 

Do you serve targeted advertising? 

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Websites. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these. 

How often will you update this Cookie Policy? 

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. 

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated. 

Where can I get further information? 

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [email protected] or by post to: Data Protection Officer, Martek Marine Ltd, Adwick Park, Manvers, Swinton, Rotherham, S63 5AB.