Privacy Policy

This page answers some important questions about how Higgins collects and uses your personal details, as well as cookie use and how you can control this.

What information Higgins collects about you
The Higgins website collects personal information about you when you interact with the following sections on www.higgins-group.co.uk. We only collect the personal information that you yourself enter:

  • Register for My Account form.
  • Use any of the various email links from the website; these open an email in your own email client and we only collect the email address the email is sent from, and any other information you choose to disclose in the body of the email.


How Higgins uses this information

Higgins is committed to privacy protection. We will only retain your personal data for the purposes of sending you information you have specifically requested from our website. We will not circulate data to third parties.


Cookie use and how to delete or control them
Higgins does not use cookies to collect or store personally identifiable information about you.

However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are used on www.higgins-group.co.uk you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Higgins website.


Cookies used on the Higgins website

Cookie Use
ASP.NET_SessionId A .NET cookie that gives the user a unique session ID. It is deleted when the session is terminated (when the browser is closed) and does not collect or store any personally
atuvc, psc, uvc, uid, uit, di, loc, bt, ssc Cookies used to run the ‘addthis’ application (a third party application used on the PAS website); Addthis.com state they do not collect or store any personally identifying information about you, unless you specifically provide it. Read their full privacy policy here
PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID Cookies set by Google; they control Google Maps
__utma Google Analytics cookie; tracks the number of times you have visited the site
__utmb and __utmc Google Analytics cookies; work together to calculate how long you have spent on the website in each session
__utmz Google Analytics cookie; tracks what search engine you have visited the site from and which search terms you used to find the website