Cookies
Introduction
Like most websites, the Hallmark Roofing website uses cookies. “Cookies” are small text files that websites save onto your device via your web browser. They’ve been around since the mid-1990s and are one of the most widely used technologies on the internet. Many essential website functions rely on cookies. For example, you can't shop online without them as they are used to remember what you add to your shopping basket.
Some cookies that we use at Hallmark Roofing will collect personal information about you. Any personal information that is collected will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Cookies are there to allow our websites to work efficiently and help us understand what information is most useful to visitors of our websites.
Cookie principles
This cookies policy describes how Hallmark Roofing uses cookies on all of its websites around the world. In this cookies policy, when we refer to “Hallmark Roofing”, “us”, “we” or “our”, we mean the Hallmark Roofing company.
Your acknowledgement
By continuing to use our websites, you accept that cookies will be set on your device, as outlined in this cookies policy.
How we use cookies
Many cookies on our websites perform essential functions and enable you to move around our websites and use their features; for example, when you log-in to your Hallmark Roofing account, they remember the information in your account. We refer to these cookies in this policy as “Strictly Necessary Cookies”.
Other cookies are not essential but they help us understand how our websites are used by visitors so that we can improve what we do online. We use web analytics tools for this. They look at things like how long our websites take to load, how they are used, and what information visitors to our sites look at most. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that you find what you are looking for easily. They also help identify any parts of our websites that aren't working as well as they should, so we can fix things and make our websites better for you and other users. We refer to these cookies in this policy as “Performance Cookies”.
Additional cookies allow our websites to recognise you when you return to our websites. These enable us to remember the choices that you make (such as the language you use or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. We refer to these cookies in this policy as “Functionality Cookies”.
A further type of cookie lets us know how well our online advertising works, and where we should place our online advertisements. These cookies let us know if one of our advertisements on another website like Google or Yahoo has sent a visitor to an Hallmark Roofing website. This type of cookie also helps us reach people who are more interested in Hallmark Roofing products & services. So if you visit an Hallmark Roofing website, you may see our advertisements on other sites. This is known as re-marketing or behavioural advertising and is used to make our advertising more relevant to your interests. We refer to these cookies in this policy as “Advertising Cookies”.
We also combine information collected from cookies with any records we may have of you as a customer of Hallmark Roofing. For example, we combine information collected from cookies with personal information you share with us, or information from Hallmark Roofing products or services, for the profiling and statistical analysis of product and service popularity, of your behaviour when you use an Hallmark Roofing website or of how Hallmark Roofing products are used.
Types of cookies we use
Cookies fall into two general categories: first-party cookies (which we set) and third-party cookies (which are set by third parties).
First-party cookies
These cookies are set by us at Hallmark Roofing. For the most part, they enable essential functionality on our website. They also include our own web analytics cookies, which we use to understand how our websites are used by visitors so that we can improve it for them.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies are not set by Hallmark Roofing, but by selected third parties with whom we work. Some of these third-party cookies enable useful services, for example, online questionnaires or a chat function (which lets you ask questions of an Hallmark Roofing expert). Others may be set by advertising networks we work with to keep track of your browsing activities so that they can place our online advertisements in the most appropriate places. In the section below on “Managing cookies”, we explain how you can change your settings so that third parties (including advertisers) know that you do not want to be tracked.
Social media cookies
Some pages on our websites let you share our content through social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes we may embed videos from sites such as YouTube. These sites set their own cookies, which we don't control. Those social media sites may have their own cookies policies, which, if available, would normally be contained on their websites. You should carefully review those cookies policies to make sure that you are happy with them.
Cookies falling within the three categories above can be further categorised depending on if they are session cookies or permanent cookies.
Session cookies
These cookies expire when you close your browser (or if you stay inactive for a certain time). They are used on our e-commerce websites so that you can continue browsing without losing what you put in your shopping basket.
Permanent cookies
These cookies persist even when the browser is closed. They’re used to remember you so that you don’t have to re-enter passwords and login information every time you visit a website.
Managing cookies
The most popular web browsers all allow you to manage cookies. You can choose to accept or reject all cookies, or just specific types of cookies.
What happens if you reject all cookies?
You'll still be able to use some parts of our websites but some useful sections won't work if you disable cookies. For example, you will not be able to log in and access your Hallmark Roofing account, make purchases or register your Hallmark Roofing guarantee online.
How to manage cookies in different web browsers
Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. Please note that turning off cookies will restrict your use of our website.
The following links provide information on how to modify the cookies settings on some popular browsers:
Safari
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
More information about managing cookies
www.allaboutcookies.org is a useful resource with a lot of detailed information about cookies and how to manage them. Please note that we do not currently respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals.
Changes to our cookies policy
We will review, and where necessary update, this policy at least once a year and will note the date it was last updated below.
If we change our cookies policy, we will post the details of the changes below. If we have your e-mail address, we may also e-mail you with information on those changes. If we need to, we will also ask you to confirm that you are happy with those changes.
This policy was last reviewed and updated in June 2024.
Contact Us
You can email our privacy team with any questions, comments or concerns at info@hallmarkroofing.ie or use the additional contact details, for both the privacy team and the relevant data protection officer in your country, set out in the privacy policy. We will get back to you as soon as possible.