Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device through your browser. Websites also use similar technologies, such as local storage and session storage, which work in much the same way. On this page, "cookies" covers all of them.

Cookies let a website remember things from one page or visit to the next, such as what is in your basket and whether you are signed in. Some are used to count visits or to support advertising.

The first time you visit, a cookie banner asks what you would like. You can:

• Accept all, to allow every category of cookie on this page
• Reject all, to allow only the cookies the shop cannot work without
• Manage preferences, to turn each optional category on or off yourself

Optional cookies stay off unless you agree to them, and turning them down does not stop you shopping with us. You can change your mind at any time using the Cookie preferences link on our website. We will also ask you again when your saved choice expires, or if we change our cookies in a way that needs your fresh agreement.

Your browser settings also let you delete or block cookies. Blocking the strictly necessary ones will stop your basket, sign-in and checkout from working.

The shop depends on these, so they are always on, and the law allows them without asking for your consent.

• Your basket. Holds the items in your basket and links the pages of your visit to it, so that the basket and checkout work. Kept in local storage as orbit_session_id until you clear this website's data. The platform also uses this reference for its visitor statistics, described below.
• Which shop you are in. Tells the website which shop you are browsing, so that the right products and prices load. Kept in local storage as orbit_store_id until you clear this website's data.
• Signing in. Keeps you logged in while you use your account. Held in the orbit_auth_token cookie, with your sign-in details in local storage (orbit_auth_token, orbit_refresh_token, orbit_token_expiry and orbit_customer), until you sign out or your sign-in expires.
• Your order pages. When you open your order confirmation or order status page from a link, a cookie named orbit_order_access followed by your order reference lets that page show your order securely. It lasts 15 minutes.
• Basket links. If you open a link that restores a saved basket, the orbit_cart_recovery_token cookie carries it into the shop. It lasts 10 minutes.
• Your wishlist. Remembers the products you add to your wishlist. Stored in local storage under a name beginning orbit_wishlist_, until you clear your browser data.
• Prices with or without VAT. Remembers whether you chose to see prices with or without VAT. Stored in session storage as orbit:vat-view, until you close your browser.
• Display settings. Remembers display settings such as currency, and language if you change it. Stored as the orbit_currency_code and orbit_locale cookies and in local storage. The cookies last 1 year.
• Your cookie choice. Remembers what you chose in the cookie banner, so that we do not ask on every page, and gives that choice a reference so that it can be shown later. Held in the oc-consent and oc-consent-id cookies for 6 months.
• Password protection. While the shop is behind a password, for example before launch, the store-access cookie saves you typing the password on every page. It lasts until you close your browser.
• Keeping the website stable. Our hosting sets the AWSALB and AWSALBCORS cookies to keep your visit connected to the same server. They last 7 days.
• Payments. Our payment provider, Stripe, may set its own cookies when the payment form loads, so that it can take your payment securely and prevent fraud.
• Spam protection. Our forms use hCaptcha to tell people from bots. It checks information about your device and browser while you fill in a protected form, and may use cookies of its own. Details are in hCaptcha's privacy policy.

When you look at a product, the platform keeps a short list of the products you have viewed, with their names, images and prices, so that they can be shown to you again later in your visit or on a later visit. The list stays in your browser's local storage, under names beginning orbit_recently_viewed_ and orbit:recently-viewed:, and is not sent to us. At present it is kept whichever choice you make in the cookie banner. It stays until you clear this website's data in your browser.

Our shop runs on the Orbit Commerce platform, which records the pages viewed during each visit so that we can see how many people visit, which pages they look at, what kind of device they use and which country they are in. These statistics are first party: they are not shared with advertisers or other websites, and they are not used to build a profile of you across other sites. Your IP address is used only to work out your country, and it is not stored with the record. Page view records are kept for 90 days, after which only daily totals remain.

The statistics use two random references stored in local storage, orbit_session_id and orbit_visitor_id, which stay until you clear your browser data. At present, the platform records these statistics whichever choice you make in the cookie banner. You can remove the references at any time by clearing this website's data in your browser.

If you allow analytics cookies, the platform also copies the same two references into cookies with the same names, which last 1 year, so that searches you make on the website can be counted as part of your visit. If you do not allow analytics cookies, these cookies are not set, and any already set are removed.

These are set only if you agree to them, by choosing Accept all or by turning on the category under Manage preferences.

Apart from the platform's own visitor statistics, this website does not currently use any third-party analytics, advertising or tracking tools. The categories below are in our cookie banner so that, if we add such a tool in future, it stays switched off until you agree to it.

Would remember settings that make the site easier to use, beyond those listed as strictly necessary.

Help us understand how the website is used, so that we can improve it. If we add an analytics service, it will not load unless you allow analytics cookies.

Help us measure our advertising and show relevant adverts on other websites. If we add advertising tools, they will not load unless you allow marketing cookies.

Before we add a tool in any of these categories, we will name it on this page and in the cookie banner's preferences, and it will not run until you have switched that category on.

Besides the platform itself, two services help deliver these pages: a content delivery network that serves our images and fonts, and an error reporting service that records technical faults so that they can be fixed. Both process technical data such as your IP address and browser version. Neither is used for advertising or to build a profile of you.

A page may include something hosted elsewhere, such as a video or a map, and the site providing it can then set cookies of its own. Websites you reach through our links do the same. Those cookies are outside our control and are covered by the other site's own cookie policy.

Whenever a cookie is added or removed, we will revise this page and change the date at the top.

SLS Engineering Supplies

• Address: Unit 1C, Inchmuir Road, Whitehill Industrial Estate, Bathgate, West Lothian EH48 2EP, United Kingdom
• Phone: 01506 639893
• Email: stuartslseng@gmail.com
• VAT number: GB703750065

You can also get in touch through our contact page.