Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how AeroSport UK uses them on aerosportuk.com, and how you can manage your cookie preferences. By continuing to use our website after being presented with our cookie banner, you consent to our use of cookies as described below.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, to provide analytical data about how a site is used, and to deliver relevant advertising. Cookies do not contain viruses or any other type of malware. They cannot execute programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

In addition to cookies, we may use similar technologies such as web beacons (small transparent images embedded in pages or emails), local storage, and session storage. This policy covers all such technologies collectively referred to as "cookies".

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for four primary purposes. Strictly necessary cookies are essential to the operation of the site — without them, features like logging in, maintaining your session, and completing bookings would not function. We do not require your consent to place strictly necessary cookies. Preference cookies remember your settings and choices, such as your language preference or region. Analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use our site — which pages are visited most frequently, where users come from, and whether they encounter error messages. This helps us improve the site over time. Marketing cookies are used to deliver advertisements relevant to your interests and to track the effectiveness of campaigns.

3. Specific Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies:

• as_session — session management cookie. Duration: session. Purpose: maintains your login state and booking basket.
• as_csrf — security token to prevent cross-site request forgery. Duration: session.
• as_cookie_consent — records your cookie preferences. Duration: 12 months.

Analytics Cookies (requires consent):

• _ga, _gid, _gat — Google Analytics. Measures user behaviour, page views, and traffic sources. Duration: 2 years / 24 hours / 1 minute.
• _hjid, _hjSessionUser — Hotjar. Records anonymous session data to improve user experience. Duration: 1 year.

Marketing Cookies (requires consent):

• _fbp — Facebook Pixel. Used to deliver relevant Facebook advertisements. Duration: 3 months.
• _gcl_au — Google Ads conversion tracking. Duration: 3 months.

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit AeroSport, a cookie banner is displayed giving you the option to accept all cookies, accept only necessary cookies, or customise your preferences. You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site, which will re-trigger the consent banner.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies, delete existing cookies, and set preferences for specific websites. Instructions for doing so can be found in your browser's help documentation. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of the site.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our site are set by third-party services. We do not control these cookies and they are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties: Google (analytics.google.com/analytics), Meta (facebook.com/privacy), and Hotjar (hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy). We encourage you to review their policies.

6. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time as we add or remove cookies or change how we use them. Please check this page periodically for updates.

7. Contact

Questions about our use of cookies? Contact us at aerosport@atomicmail.io or call +44 1582 934 617.