Cookie Policy

To make our site work properly we sometimes place cookies on your device to enable the website to function better. This policy will explain which cookies we use and what they do.

To make this site simpler for you to use we place small files on your computer called cookies.

Newcastle Science Central Developments LLP uses cookies to store information on your computer to give you a better website experience.

Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of this site to work and have already been set. These go beyond simply clicking on links and can be used when you log in, submit a form or interact with the site.

We also use some non-essential cookies to track how users navigate around the website, which pages they visit and for how long. This information helps us to improve your experience of the site.

These cookies improve your browsing experience by:

measuring how you use the website so we can improve your experience
remembering information about how you like to view the site

Cookies We Use

Technical or Functional Cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit the website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting the website, for example where relevant items may remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

Statistics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use the site (e.g. what pages you visit and how long you spend on the site). We have enabled the Demographics and Interest Reports in Google Analytics. We use this to look at the overall profile of our audience including age and gender. We do this to help us improve our users' experience of the website. Google provides a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on". We never store any personal information (e.g. your name, address), so the information we collect can never be used to identify you. Google will never use or share your analytic information either.

Marketing/Tracking Cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Social Media

On the website, we may have included content from social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to locate information on Newcastle Helix on social networks. This content is embedded with code derived from such social networks and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. For your information, Twitter and Instagram are located in the United States of America.

How to Control Cookies

You can control and delete cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies

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It's worth noting that these cookies may be used by other websites or third-party services as well, not just Google. The purpose of these cookies is generally to improve the user experience by remembering preferences and providing personalised content and advertising.