Cookies Policy

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used to make websites work efficiently, as well as to provide information to website owners.

Cookies can help websites:

• Analyse web traffic and usage patterns
• Remember your preferences
• Improve functionality and user experience

Cookies do not give us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

3. How ESB International uses cookies

We use cookies to help us understand how visitors use our website and to improve the way our site works. In particular, cookies may be used to:

• Monitor website performance and page usage
• Identify which pages are most useful to visitors
• Improve content, navigation and overall user experience
• Support essential website functionality

Information collected through cookies is used only for statistical, analytical and functional purposes, unless you explicitly consent to additional cookie categories.

4. Types of cookies we use

Our website may use the following categories of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies
  These are essential for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off.
• Analytics cookies
  These help us understand how visitors interact with the website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
• Functional cookies
  These allow the website to remember choices you make (such as language or region).
• Marketing cookies (where applicable)
  These may be used to track visitors across websites to display relevant content or communications.

You can choose which cookie categories you allow at any time.

5. Managing your cookie preferences

When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to:

• Accept all cookies
• Reject non‑essential cookies
• Customise your cookie preferences by category

You can update or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie settings option, which is a small blue bubble in the bottom left corner of the screen.

6. Cookie consent management with CookieYes

We use CookieYes, a third‑party Consent Management Platform (CMP), to manage cookies and user consent on our website.

CookieYes helps us:

• Display a clear and customisable cookie consent banner
• Categorise cookies by purpose (for example, necessary, analytics or marketing)
• Block non‑essential cookies until consent is given
• Record and store consent choices for compliance purposes
• Allow users to review and change their cookie preferences at any time

CookieYes supports compliance with global privacy and data protection regulations, including UK GDPR, EU GDPR, PECR, and other international privacy frameworks. It also provides automated website scanning to identify cookies in use and helps ensure our cookie disclosures remain accurate and up to date.

You can find more information about CookieYes on their website:
https://www.cookieyes.com

7. Third‑party cookies

Some cookies on our website may be set by trusted third‑party services (for example, analytics or embedded content). These third parties have their own privacy and cookies policies, which we recommend you review.

We do not control the setting of third‑party cookies.

8. Changes to this Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, technology, or our website practices. Any updates will be published on this page.