Andreas Stihl Limited – Cookie Policy
- Information about our use of cookies
- Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. When you use our site, a banner will be displayed asking you for your consent to our use of cookies.
- What are cookies?
- A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is saved onto your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit our site.
- Cookies store small pieces of information. For example, one type of cookie will remember that you have visited our site before.
- Cookies help us to improve your visit and experience when browsing our site by, for example, storing certain information so you don’t have to re-enter it on subsequent visits.
- Cookies also assist us in tracking which pages of the website you have visited.
- We use both persistent cookies (which stay with your computer and will work until their expiry date, unless detected by you beforehand) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).
- We use the following cookies:
- Strictly Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential for the operation of our site.
- Analytical/ performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise use when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
- 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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
- You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name | Description | Expiry |
| laravel_session
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (PHP Laravel) |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to analyse how visitors find our website, how often they visit it, and which pages are the most popular. | Length of the session |
| CookieControl
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (PHP Session) |
This cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. On the Action website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. | Length of the session |
| XSRF-TOKEN
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (Angular.js) |
This cookie is used by Angular to prevent malicious attacks, cookie stealing during sessions. | Length of the session |
| __cf_bm
myfonts.net |
Support Cloudflare bot management | Length of the session |
- Third party cookies
- Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
- The table below explains the cookies we use on our site, why they are collected and when they expire:
| Name and domain | Description | Expiry |
| _ga
_gid
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (Google Analytics) |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to analyse how visitors find our website, how often they visit it, and which pages are the most popular. | 995 days
995 days |
| __cfduid
.myfonts.net (.myfonts.net) |
The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. | 2221 days |
| AEC
.google.com (.google.com) |
Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads, and that YouTube creators in the YouTube Partner Program are remunerated fairly. | 6 months |
| FPGSID
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (.stihltoolshed.co.uk) |
This cookie registers statistical data about visitors' behaviour on the website | A few seconds |
| FPAU
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (.stihltoolshed.co.uk) |
This cookie collects information about the users and their activity on the website through embedded elements with the purpose of analytics and reporting. | 3 months |
| FPID
.stihltoolshed.co.uk (.stihltoolshed.co.uk) |
The cookie stores a unique identifier which is used to compile statistics on how visitors use the website. | 400 days |
| NID
.google.com (.google.com) |
These cookies are used to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to have shown on a search results page (for example, 10 or 20), and whether you want to have Google's SafeSearch filter turned on. | 13 months |
| SOCS
.google.com (.google.com) |
Google uses the 'SOCS' cookie to store a user's state regarding their cookies choices. | 13 months |
- Your interaction with cookies
- It is possible to disable and remove cookies from your computer or device by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to do so. You will need to know what browser you are using and what version you have.
- You can refer to your browser’s help section or visit the aboutcookies.org/ website for further information and assistance with cookies.
- Please be aware that if you use your browser settings to block or amend certain cookies, your browsing experience may change for the worse.
- Changes to this policy
- We may update, change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately. Please visit this page periodically if you want to keep up to date.