Swire Energy Services

This policy explains how we use cookies on this website, https://swirees.com [and subsites under the swirees.com domain] (the"Site"). This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Notice https://swirees.com/privacy-policy & Website Terms and Conditions.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device and used by website operators in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the operators of the website or certain third parties. Each cookie usually contains a unique string of characters, which allows a website to distinguish your browser or device from other users. In this cookies policy, we use the term "cookie" to mean a cookie and any other similar technology, such as web beacons, local stored objects, and pixel tags.

We use cookies to enable you to navigate between pages on our Site and to generally improve your user experience. We also use cookies to analyse how users interact with our Site, to enable you to share content using social media, and to provide you with embedded content from third parties, such as maps of our offices and videos from our YouTube channel. We also sometimes use cookie type technologies in emails to identify how users come to our Site so that we can evaluate and measure the effectiveness of our email marketing.

We may combine information collected via cookies with information such as your IP address, the type of browser, device, and operating system, for example to provide statistical information about visitors to the Site. Where the Site uses third parties’ cookies, you should check with the relevant third party to see how they use cookies.

The cookies that we currently use on the Site are summarised in more detail below. We recommend that you read this so that you are aware of how we use them and can take steps to reject or delete the cookies if you do not agree to them being used.

1. Persistent cookies: These cookies expire at the end of a browser session. They allow the Site to recognise and link the actions you take during an individual browsing session.

2. Session cookies: These cookies are stored for longer after you exit your browser. These cookies are stored on your device in-between browser sessions allowing your preferences and past actions on the Site to be remembered.

1. First party cookies: These are cookies directly set by us on the Site.

2. Third party cookies: These are cookies set by a third-party domain – for example, the provider of a social media plug-in enabling you to share content through that social media platform.

1. Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to the functioning of our Site. For example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.

2. Analytical or performance cookies: These cookies allow us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by allowing us to count the number of visitors to our Site and ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

3. Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site, and allow us to remember your preferences etc.

4. Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

In the table below in section 4, we tell you the profile of the different cookies we have present on the Site.

Some types of cookies require us to get your consent before we can set the cookie. If a cookie is not 'strictly necessary' to the functioning of the Site, then we will get your consent. Cookies that are strictly necessary and essential to the operation of the Site will be set automatically. The table in section 4 explains if consent is required. You can control your consent using the [cookie control] on the Site.

We may also remind you periodically about our use of cookies and ask you to reconfirm your consent to cookies when you register for certain services or activate a certain function on the Site that relies on the use of cookies.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Strictly necessary cookies

Analytical or performance cookies

Targeting cookies

We maintain profile pages on various social media platforms such as [Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube]. We may link to those profile pages on the Site and other third-party websites. If you are a registered user of any of those third-party platforms (and/or are logged in to those platforms) then certain cookies may be set to make it easier for you to share content or access their features.

We are not responsible for, and have no control over, the use of cookies on those platforms. If you are concerned about the use of cookies on any third-party websites linked to from the Site then you should check the relevant third party's privacy policy before accessing its platform (or upon arrival at that platform).

Web browsers also allow control of most cookies through the browser settings. Consult the settings on your browser to find out more.

This policy may be amended by us at any time. Please check this page periodically so that you are aware of any changes.

This policy was last updated on 27.05.24.