Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy describes how Spectrum Brands (UK) Limited, Regent Mill, Fir Street, Failsworth Manchester, M35 0HS, United Kingdom uses cookies to collect information on the https://uk.russellhobbs.com/ website. For more information about how we use, store and share the information of website users, please also see our Privacy Policy.

What are "Cookies"?

Cookies are small text files that are transferred to your computer or mobile device when you visit our websites or applications, subject to your consent (if required). On each subsequent visit, your web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome) sends these cookies back to the website or application so that they recognize you and your personal information or user preferences.

Cookies are very useful and perform many different tasks. They help you improve your experience on our website by customizing it to your needs. They recognize your preferences and improve your overall user experience.

There are two kinds of Cookies:

Session Cookies. These only last for the duration of your online session and then disappear from your computer or device when you close your web browser.
Persistent Cookies.These remain on your computer or device after your browser has been closed and remain for the period specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the website for which the cookie was created.

How do we use Cookies?

We use cookies on our website, mobile sites and mobile applications to improve their usability and to collect and store data for marketing and optimization purposes. Cookies are small text files from our website that are stored on your drive and then recognized by web browsers. Our cookies do not contain any data about you. Instead, they use a pseudonymous user profile and cannot cause any harm to your user system.

We do not sell the data collected by our cookies and do not share this information with third parties unless required by law (e.g. national authorities or legal representatives).

By browsing our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. In addition, there is the option to unsubscribe by clicking on the corresponding button on our cookie banner or on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this page.

You can revoke this consent at any time for the future by changing the settings of your browser. You can set the settings in your browser to either ask for permission each time a cookie tries to access your computer or mobile device, or to disable the use of cookies in certain cases or completely. However, this may cause many of the features on our website to not function correctly.

What type of Cookies do we use?

The following categories of cookies may be installed on your device when you use our websites, mobile sites or mobile applications:

Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to browse through our website and use features such as our registration pages. Without these cookies, the website would not function properly. These cookies do not collect any data about you. These cookies allow websites and applications to remember your selected preferences (such as your username or language settings). They allow us to provide you with enhanced and personalized features. We cannot identify you personally from the information collected by these cookies.
Performance & Marketing Cookies: These cookies help to understand how visitors interact with our websites by providing information about the areas visited, the time spent on the website, and any issues encountered, such as error messages. This helps us to improve the performance of our websites. Marketing cookies are used to track and collect visitor’s actions on the website. Cookies store user data and behaviour information, which allows advertising services to target more audience groups. Also, more customised user experience can be provided according to collected information.
Analytical/Advertising Cookies: To ensure that our websites, mobile sites and mobile applications are easy to use and up-to-date, we use the web analytics service Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our websites. This allows us to see, for example, what content is most popular on our website and also ensures that our content is continuously updated and improved. The information we collect is anonymous and is only used for statistical purposes. These cookies are also used to create profiles or personalize content, such as advertising based on your interests.

We currently use the following cookies on our website:

Cookie Name	Cookie Provider	Cookie Description	Cookie Lifetime	Cookie Type
PHPSESSID	Magento	To store the logged in user's username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unabled to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access.	1 Hour	Essential
private_content_version	Magento	Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server.	Session	Essential
persistent_shopping_cart	Magento	Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper.	Session	Essential
form_key	Magento	A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).	Session	Performance
store	Magento	Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper.	Session	Essential
login_redirect	Magento	Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in.	Session	Essential
mage-messages	Magento	Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages, The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper.	1 Hour	Essential
mage-cache-storage	Magento	Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions.	1 Hour	Essential
mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation	Magento	Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated.	1 Hour	Essential
mage-cache-sessid	Magento	The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage.	1 Hour	Essential
product_data_storage	Magento	Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products.	1 Hour	Essential
user_allowed_save_cookie	Magento	Indicates if the shopper allows cookies to be saved.	Session	Essential
mage-translation-storage	Magento	Stores translated content when requested by the shopper.	1 Hour	Essential
mage-translation-file-version	Magento	Stores the file version of translated content.	1 Hour	Essential
section_data_ids	Magento	Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc.	Session	Essential
recently_viewed_product	Magento	Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation.	Never	Marketing
recently_viewed_product_previous	Magento	Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation.	Never	Marketing
recently_compared_product	Magento	Stores product IDs of recently compared products.	Never	Marketing
recently_compared_product_previous	Magento	Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation.	Never	Marketing
_ga	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish users.	2 Years	Performance
_gid	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish users.	2 Years	Performance
_gat	Google Analytics	Used to throttle request rate.	2 Years	Performance

Google Analytics

We use the Google Analytics tool on our website on the basis of your consent collected through the Cookie Management Platform on our website. The business address of the responsible service provider in the European Union (EU) / European Economic Area (EEA) is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Further information for Google Ireland Limited can be found at the following link: https://www.google.de/intl/gb/policies/

Google Ireland Limited is a company of the US company Google LLC. The business address of Google LLC: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google LLC and Google Ireland Limited are together part of the US holding company Alphabet Inc. The registered office of Alphabet Inc. corresponds to the above-mentioned business address of Google LLC. The data is transferred on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) within the meaning of Art. 45 para. 3 GDPR.

We process the following categories of personal data:

Browser- and device information
Approximate location data
Sessions statistics
Number of users

The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent.

The Google Analytics tool is used to analyse the use of our website by you (web analysis service). We use the tool as follows:

The tracking takes place on the server side. This means that user data is processed on one of our servers (on a so-called proxy server) and not in the user's browser. Server-side tracking ensures that user data is not transmitted directly to Google but is first pseudonymized on our own server. The IP address is replaced by a pseudonymous identifier that is sent to the service provider instead of the user's IP address. In this way, Google only receives data that the company itself cannot assign to individual users. On our behalf, Google will use the pseudonymized data to evaluate your use of the website and to compile reports on website activity.

If you require more information about the automatically collected data, you can view it at the following link: https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6317485

Information on any predefined dimensions of a user (depending on the option used) or on the optimized analyses and events can be found under the following links:

Regarding the possibly predefined dimensions of a user: https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/9268042

Regarding any optimized analyses and events: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9216061

What are Pixels and which ones do we use?

We also use other technologies on our website that allow us to provide you and third parties with a personalized web experience, such as by providing you with ads on your social media channels that are more relevant to you.

Meta Pixel

We use the Meta-Pixel tool on our website, a service by Meta Platforms Limited, based in 4 Grand Canal Place, 2 CO Dublin (Ireland) on the basis of your consent, i.e. if you have consented to the use of marketing /advertising cookies or similar technologies through the Cookie Management Platform on our website.

The meta pixel tool is used to analyse and measure the success of advertising placed on the online platform of the social network Facebook.

If we place advertisements for our products and services on our Facebook page, we only want to show them to people who are actually interested in our products and services. The meta pixel tool allows us to better tailor our advertising measures to the wishes and interests of potential customers. In this way, Facebook users who have consented to the display of personalized advertising are presented with suitable advertising. Meta Platforms also uses the data collected when using the meta pixel for its own analysis purposes and to display its own advertisements.

If the service provider Meta Platforms uses the data for its own purposes, you will find information on the legal basis, the storage period and the assertion of data subject rights in the service provider's data protection information here.

In order to display our advertising only to interested persons, as explained above, we have implemented the code that ensures the function of the Meta-Pixel tool on our website that you visit. The implemented code provided by Meta Platforms loads functions that enable Meta Platforms to analyse and measure your actions if you reach our site via Facebook ads.

Once the comparison has taken place, the data is deleted by Meta Platforms. The data collected by Meta Platforms is anonymous and cannot be viewed by us as users of Meta-Pixel. This data is only used by Meta Platforms in the context of displaying advertisements. In the context of the data processing that takes place, it makes a difference whether you have a Facebook user account and are logged in to the Facebook page as a user in your browser, or whether you do not have a Facebook user account.

If you have a Facebook user account and are logged in, Meta Platforms will automatically associate your data with your user account when you visit our site. You can adjust your settings for advertisements here if you are logged into your Facebook user account.

If you do not have a Facebook user account, you can click here to manage your usage-based advertising and activate or deactivate individual advertising providers.

Meta Platforms Limited is a part of Meta Platforms, Inc., located at 1601 Willow Road Menlo Park, California 94025-1452, USA. If personal data is transferred to Meta Platforms, Inc. in the US, the data is transferred on the basis of the adequacy decision of the European Commission EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) within the meaning of Art. 45 para. 3 GDPR.

Instagram Plugin

This website uses a so-called social plugin (hereinafter referred to as "plugin") of the microblogging service Instagram. The Service is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, USA (hereinafter referred to as the "Provider").

When you visit one of our websites that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the provider's servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from the provider to your web browser, which then integrates it into the website.

Through the integration of a plugin, the provider receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a profile or account with the providers or if you are not logged in at the time of access. This information (including your IP address) may be sent directly from your browser to a server of the respective provider in the USA and stored there.

If you have a profile or an account and you are logged in when you visit our website, the provider can assign your visit to our website directly to your profile or account. When you interact with the plugin, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to a server of the provider and stored there. The information can also be posted on your Instagram account and can be viewed by your contacts.

The provider may use this information for the purpose of advertising, market research and needs-based design of its pages. For this purpose, the provider creates profiles regarding usage, interests and relationships, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements that are displayed to you on the respective platform, to inform other users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Instagram.

If you do not want the Provider to assign the data collected via our website to your profile or account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website.

To learn more about the purpose and extent to which the provider collects, processes and uses this data, your rights and the settings available to protect your privacy, please read Instagram's privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

How can you control or delete cookies?

Most internet browsers are set up to automatically accept cookies from the start. You can change your browser settings to block cookies or to notify you when cookies are being sent to your device. There are several ways to manage cookies. For more information about adjusting or changing browser settings, see Browser Settings or the Help section.

If you disable the cookies used by us, it may affect your experience when using our website, for example, you may not be able to visit certain areas of the website or you may not receive personalised information from the website.

If you use different devices to view and access our website (e.g. computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.), you must ensure that the settings of each browser on each device are adapted to your cookie preferences.