First State Auctions Cookie Policy
Cookies Policy
We use cookies to make our website more personalized and helpful for you. By using this website and our other online services, you agree that we can store and access cookies and other data about how you use our site, as set out in this policy. You can learn more about cookies and how we use them—and adjust your personal cookie settings—below.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files placed on your device by the websites you visit or certain emails you open. They are commonly used to help websites function properly and to provide both business and marketing insights.
Example:
Our cookies remember your preferred language and location so that whenever you visit our website, the pages are shown in your chosen language.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to collect information about your use of our website and other online services. Please see our privacy policy for more details on how we collect and handle personal data.
We use two main types of cookies on our website:
- Persistent cookies
These remain on your device for a specified period and let us recognize you each time you visit our website. - Session cookies
These are created when you visit our website and automatically deleted when you close your browser. They help us link your actions during a single browsing session and keep our website running reliably.
Some of our partners may also place third-party cookies on your device when you visit our site. We and our partners may use these cookies to deliver more relevant advertising, better understand user behavior, ensure reliable website performance, and support our services.
What cookies do we use?
1. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without them, certain parts of our site will not work properly.
Examples:
- Balancing website traffic to give all users a consistent experience.
- Limiting traffic to key parts of the website to maintain performance.
- Storing your acceptance of our privacy policy, cookies policy, and website terms of use, which is required to access the site.
- Managing website performance during high-traffic periods.
2. Performance/statistics cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our site and help us improve its functionality. Without them, we may not be able to invite you to complete surveys or gain detailed insight into how you use our website.
Examples:
- Tracking the pages visitors view most often.
- Identifying and reviewing error messages users see while browsing.
- Gathering feedback via customer satisfaction surveys.
- Understanding how visitors use our website.
3. Functionality/preferences cookies
These cookies enable the site to remember the choices you make (like language preferences) and offer enhanced, personalized features. They may also support services like playing a video. These cookies don’t track your activity on other websites. If disabled, some features may not function correctly, and your experience may be less convenient.
Examples:
- Remembering your language and country preferences.
- Personalizing content to be more relevant to you.
- Testing different layouts or designs to improve usability.
- Recognizing you when you return to our website.
4. Targeting/marketing cookies
These cookies track your visits to our site and help us and our partners show you advertising that aligns with your interests. They include third-party cookies set by our partners or other advertisers who share cookie data with us. These cookies can also limit how many times you see an ad and measure the success of ad campaigns. Without them, you may see less relevant ads and certain partner offers might not work as intended.
Examples:
- Showing different versions of web pages for marketing purposes.
- Allowing third parties to display relevant ads and track their effectiveness.
- Displaying product suggestions based on your browsing behavior here and on other websites.
- Sharing and receiving cookie information with/from third parties to understand user behavior better.
Controlling and deleting cookies on your device
You can disable or delete cookies via your web browser settings. If you disable cookies, certain parts of our website may not function properly or be available to you.
If you delete existing cookies:
- We will no longer know you have opted out of behavioral advertising, so ads from our third-party advertisers might reappear on other sites.
- We will no longer remember information you previously provided (such as your language and country preferences), so you may need to enter these details again.
What is behavioral advertising?
Behavioral (or interest-based) advertising serves ads based on your browsing history so that they are more relevant to your interests. By grouping web users with shared interests, it delivers ads tailored to these common interests. This process can include retargeting, where ads are shown to you based on content you recently viewed on our website.