Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies - tiny files that are stored on your computer - to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this), or by making a choice through our cookie controls. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers e-commerce payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on enquiry page or when requesting a valuation, cookies will be set to remember you did this, or where you are up to in the process of doing this.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

View detailed information on the cookies we set

Cookie Name	Purpose
`cookie_law`	Used to identify that you have been alerted (and given consent/opted out) of using certain cookies on the website.
`nnn_2024`	Stores information that is critical to providing services available to you. Valuations - used to remember where you are in the process of requesting a free valuation from the site. Online Purchase - used to remember where you are in the process of purchasing a registration from the site. User Log In - used to remember which user you are logged in as. Preferences - used to remember preferences you have set when browsing the site (e.g how you'd like search results displayed). Enquiries - used to remember which specific registrations you have submitted enquiries on. A/B Testing - used to remember if you should be shown any particular site modification we may be trying out.
`nnn_fav`	Clicking the star icon in our search results adds the registration selected to your favourites list. The registrations noted here can then be viewed on our favourite number plates page.
`nnn_trk`	Stores a list of searches you have performed, along with a list of specific registrations you have viewed. This powers the 'recently viewed registrations' list that lets you quickly jump back to registrations you have previously viewed, or perform searches again. This cookie also stores details of how you found our website - e.g you may have clicked one of our adverts shown on Google. We use this information to help us identify if our advertising campaigns are working, and also to save you from selecting from a 'how did you hear about us' box every time you fill out a form. Finally, this cookie also stores your computer's IP address. The IP address is the numerical address of the computer used to visit the Website. We collect this information so that we can trace the computer used in cases of misuse or unlawful actions in connection with visits to or use of our website.
`nnn_aff`	Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and - where applicable - allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

This data is retained for analysis in pseudonymised form by Google Analytics (the Data Processors). This means it is not possible to identify a natural person, only an individual's behaviours on the site.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the social media sites (including Facebook and Twitter), will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

And finally cookies are used to monitor how effective our online advertising is. We'd love to know if you found out about us from a particular advert, and to do this the online advertising suppliers (such as Google or Microsoft) will set cookies to report back to us on which of our campaigns led you here. Again, data collected, stored and processed by them is detailed on their respective privacy policies.

You can opt out of all of the above third party cookies with our cookie controls, or by configuring your preferences with these parties directly.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.