Last updated: 10 December 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how Ryetec Industrial Equipment Limited (Ryetec, we, us, our) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit / (the Website).

1. What are cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device, such as a computer, tablet or mobile phone, when you access a website. Cookies allow websites to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit. Some cookies are essential for websites to operate, while others help improve your browsing experience, personalise content, measure performance or deliver targeted marketing.

2. Types of cookies we use

We use several different types of cookies on our Website.

In particular, we use:

• necessary cookies, which enable certain fundamental website features, such as security and core functionality
• non essential cookies, which allow us to remember your preferences and the choices you make, monitor usage of our Website for statistical purposes and deliver targeted marketing to you

Some of these cookies are session cookies, which are stored temporarily and are destroyed after you leave our Website. Others are persistent cookies, which remain on your device for the period of time specified in the cookie. You can see Annex 1 for details of how long these cookies persist.

The following is a more detailed explanation of the types of cookies we use.

a. Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies are essential and help you navigate the Website. Without these cookies, we may not be able to provide the services you have asked for. These cookies also help to support website security and basic functionality and are essential for the proper operation of our Website, so if you block these cookies we cannot guarantee your use or the security of our Website during your visit.

b. Non essential cookies

i. Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies are used to provide you the best user experience. They also allow the Website to remember choices you make, such as language or the region you are in, and provide you with more personal features.

ii. Statistics cookies

Statistics cookies help us to understand the behaviour of our visitors and their usage of the Website in an aggregated manner. This allows us to continuously improve the Website to provide the best user experience. These cookies are also used to help us understand how effective our advertising is. For instance, these cookies tell us which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated to assist us to improve how the Website works. Some of these cookies are managed by third parties.

iii. Marketing cookies

We use cookies to provide you with tailored communications. These cookies help us and our partners to show you relevant information in various digital channels based on, for example, your visit and click history.

3. Google Analytics

In particular, we use Google Analytics cookies to obtain an overall view of visitor habits and visitor volumes, and to help improve the overall experience on our Website. Google Analytics is a third party web analysis service provided by Google LLC.

Google Analytics uses performance cookies and targeting cookies to analyse how you use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website, including your IP address, will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

This Website uses Google Analytics with the expansion anonymizeIp, which means that Google will truncate or anonymise the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union and other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

On our behalf, Google will use the information collected for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Website, compiling reports on Website activity and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage to us. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You can also prevent Google’s collection and use of data, cookies and IP address, by downloading and installing the browser plug in available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en GB.

You may disable the use of Google Analytics by using the link Disable Google Analytics, if provided in our cookie settings. This link creates an opt out cookie which prevents the further processing of your data for this Website. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy.

4. First party and third party cookies

This Website uses both first party and third party cookies.

First party cookies are set by the Website you are visiting. These cookies are primarily used to ensure the technical functionality and security of the Website.

Third party cookies are set by someone other than the Website you are visiting, such as by our partners and service providers. We use external platforms to monitor and evaluate the use of the Website, for example by way of Google Analytics.

5. Managing your cookie preferences

You can control cookies in several ways.

• Through our cookie banner or preference tools, where you can accept or reject non essential cookies
• By adjusting your browser settings to block or delete some or all cookies
• By installing browser add ons that allow you to block tracking cookies

If you block non essential cookies, our Website should still function, but some features may not work as intended. If you block necessary cookies, some core Website functions may not operate correctly.

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we introduce new technologies, integrate new partners or change how we use cookies. The latest version will always be published at /.

7. Contact us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, you can contact us at:

Ryetec Industrial Equipment Limited
Mill House, A64 East Knapton
Malton, North Yorkshire
YO17 8JA
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01944 728186

Annex 1, Cookies used on this Website

The table below sets out the cookies used on this Website. You should complete or update this table following your own technical audit.

Cookie name	Provider	Type	Purpose	Expiry
_ga	Google Analytics	Statistics	Used to distinguish users and track Website usage	2 years
_gid	Google Analytics	Statistics	Used to distinguish users and track page views	24 hours
_gat	Google Analytics	Performance	Used to throttle request rate	1 minute
PHPSESSID	Ryetec	Necessary	Preserves user session state across page requests	Session