Cookies Policy

Thank you for your interest in this Cookie Policy and welcome to FCI Water Systems Europe and our website located at www.calmerseas-fci.com (our “website”). Our website uses cookies to remember your preferences and help you obtain the right information. Cookies also allow us to understand how our website is being used. 

 

Our website is operated and maintained by FCI Water Systems Europe, 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, England, W1W 7LT (“FCI Water Systems Europe”, “we”, “us”, “our”). If you want to contact us or if you have any questions, you can reach us by email using accounts@calmerseas.co.uk with "Data Protection" in the subject line. 

 

WHY DO WE HAVE A COOKIE POLICY? 

This Cookie Policy sits in line with our obligations set out in the UK's Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”) and the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”). In accordance with them, we need to inform you about the cookies we use and obtain your consent when using certain types of cookies, namely functional, performance, analytical, and advertising cookies (“Optional Cookies”). 

 

WHAT ARE COOKIES? 

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your device's hard drive by a website. Each time you return to the same website, your browser retrieves and sends the relevant cookie(s) to the website’s server. 

Cookies can be divided into the following two broad categories:  

 

Essential or necessary cookies. These cookies are essential or necessary to ensure that a website works properly and is secure so that you can navigate a website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain features of a website would not function, and thus you would not be able to use certain services.  

 

Optional Cookies. These cookies are nonessential for the website to function and require your consent. When it comes to optional cookies, the following distinctions are made: 

 

  • Functional cookies or sometimes called convenience cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember the options a user has made and other personalisation options you have selected when browsing. 

 

  • Analysis and performance cookies, which are used to monitor and improve the function and service of a website. Those can track down problems when using a website, facilitate online surveys, record visitor numbers, and provide analytics metrics.  

 

  • Advertising cookies or targeting cookies. They are used to deliver customised advertising to the user. 

 

THE COOKIES WE USE 

We utilise the below-mentioned cookies to provide users with an improved user experience.  

 

Shopify Analytics 

We use Shopify Analytics by Shopify. Shopify Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your device, to help the website analyse how users use our website. The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place, and frequency of your website visit, including your IP address, is transmitted to Shopify and stored there. In this case, your IP address will already be shortened by Shopify and thus anonymised. 

 

Shopify will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Shopify may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Shopify's behalf. The use of this service is based on your consent. 

 

Google Analytics 

We also use Google Analytics provided by Google, on our website. Google Analytics also uses cookies to enable our website to analyse how users use our website across multiple devices. The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to and stored by Google, including transmission to the United States. The following data is processed through the use of Google Analytics: i) 3 bytes of the IP address of the called system of the website visitor (anonymised IP address), ii) the website called up, iii) the website from which the user reached the accessed page of my website (referrer), iv) the subpages accessed from the website, v) the time spent on the website, and vi) the frequency with which the website is accessed. Google states that it will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can disable tracking by Google Analytics with future effect by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser following this link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 

 

HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES  

In your browser 

You can manage your cookie preferences using the following links for some of the most popular internet browsers: Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. 

 

Cookie preference pop-up 

We also offer a cookie preference pop-up when you first visit our website. This pop-up is a consent tool and allows you to specify your preference about cookies. You can accept or reject them or access this cookie policy before giving your consent to cookies or rejecting them.  

 

Opt out 

In addition, if you do not wish to participate in advertising personalisation or retargeting/tracking, you can object to behavioural advertising at the following websites: Your Online Choices, Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada, Network Advertising Initiative, AdChoices the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (Europe only), Facebook Ad Settings and Instagram Ad Settings. 

 

HELP AND COMPLAINTS 

If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us by email using accounts@calmerseas.co.uk with "Data Protection" in the subject line. 

 

CHANGES 

The first version of this policy was issued on Friday, 24 January, 2025, and is the current version. Any prior versions are invalid, and if we make changes to this policy, we will revise the effective date.