Cookie policy

This page lists what Trinity Pawnbrokers stores on your device when you use this site, and how to change what you allow.

The short version

Nothing but the essentials is stored until you say yes. When you first arrive, the only thing kept is the record of the choice you make in the cookie banner. Maps, measurement and advertising stay off until you turn them on, and you can turn them off again at any time from the “Cookie preferences” link at the foot of every page.

Our banner is run for us by Cookiebot, a consent management service. It is Cookiebot that shows you the choices, keeps the record of what you chose, and tells the rest of the site what it is allowed to do.

Strictly necessary

These are needed for the site to work. They cannot be switched off, and none of them tracks you across other websites.

• CookieConsent — set by Cookiebot, our consent service. It remembers which groups below you allowed, so you are not asked again on every page, and it is what the rest of the site reads before doing anything. It lasts twelve months, after which you are asked afresh.
• trinity-cart — held in your browser’s local storage rather than in a cookie. It records which pieces are in your shop basket, so the basket survives a refresh. It holds no prices and no personal details, nothing is sent to us until you check out, and clearing your browser data removes it.
• Security — our host, Cloudflare, sets no cookies in normal browsing. If it ever has to challenge traffic that looks automated, it may set a short-lived cookie of its own to carry the result of that check.

Maps

Our homepage and contact page can show a Google map of the office. Google sets its own cookies the moment that map loads, so the map is not in the page until you allow it — you get the address and a “Show the map” button instead. Allowing it lets Google set cookies including NID, SOCS, CONSENT, AEC and 1P_JAR, which Google uses for its own purposes; their lifetimes are set by Google and run from a few months to around two years. Switch this group off again and we take the map out of the page and clear those cookies where the browser lets us.

Measurement

We would like to know how many people read a page, which pages they arrive on and whether a valuation request was finished, so we know what to fix. Nothing in this group is running today. If we add a measurement tool it will be named on this page before it is switched on, and it will only run for people who have allowed this group. Nothing here is used for advertising, and we do not sell what it collects.

Advertising

If you came to us from an advert, we would like to know which one — otherwise we are paying for advertising without knowing which of it works. Allowing this group lets us keep the reference your click arrives with (Google calls it a gclid, Microsoft an msclkid) together with the campaign name and the page you landed on, in a cookie called trinity_attribution. It lasts 90 days, it is set by our own server rather than by script, and it can only be read by our server: your browser will not hand it to anyone else, and nothing in it is used to build a profile of you or to show you adverts on other sites.

• trinity_attribution — the advert reference, campaign, landing page and the time you arrived. 90 days. Set by our own server, readable only by our server, and never by any other site. It is set only if you allow this group, and deleted the moment you switch it off.
• Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising — if you allow this group, their tags may set their own cookies (_gcl*, _uetsid, _uetvid) to match a conversion to a click. Until you allow it, both are told you have refused, and neither stores anything.

We use no social media tracking cookies, and we do not sell what any of this collects.

The record of your choice

Cookiebot keeps a record of each choice made in the banner, so that we can show what was agreed and when. The record is a reference, the date, which groups were allowed, and which version of the banner was shown. We do not add your name or email address to it. If you ask us what you consented to, that reference is how we find it.

Paying for something in the shop

Payments are taken by Stripe. When you go to pay you are on Stripe’s own checkout page, where Stripe sets the cookies it needs to take the payment and to prevent fraud. Those are set by Stripe on Stripe’s own site, are necessary to take a payment at all, and are covered by Stripe’s privacy policy rather than by the choice you make here.

Changing your mind

Use the “Cookie preferences” link at the foot of any page. You can switch a group on or off there whenever you like, and refusing is as easy as accepting — one button, in the same place, the same size. You can also delete cookies in your browser’s own settings; if you delete ours, we will ask you again on your next visit.

Questions

Write to us at the address in the footer. What we do with personal information, and your rights over it, is in our privacy policy.