Cookie Policy

1. About this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Sultani Gas Limited, trading through SGL Hire, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit:

Website: sglhire.co.uk

It explains:

  • What cookies and similar technologies are
  • Why we may use them
  • Which technologies require your consent
  • How third-party services may operate
  • How you can accept, reject or change your choices
  • How long cookies may remain on your device

This policy should be read alongside our:

  • Privacy Policy
  • Hire Terms and Conditions
  • Website Terms of Use

The final cookie list must be based on a technical audit of the live website after all plugins, forms, videos, analytics, security services and consent tools have been configured.

2. Who we are

The website is operated by:

Sultani Gas Limited, trading through SGL Hire

Company number: 10380350
Address: Unit 5 Underlyn Industrial Estate, Marden, Kent, TN12 9AT
Telephone: 01622 910075
Email: helpdesk@sglhire.co.uk

For privacy enquiries relating to cookies and similar technologies, contact us using the details above.

3. What cookies are

Cookies are small files placed on a computer, telephone, tablet or other device when a person visits a website.

They can be used to:

  • Make a website function correctly
  • Remember visitor preferences
  • Maintain security
  • process forms
  • Measure website traffic
  • Understand how visitors use a website
  • Enable embedded videos or maps
  • Support advertising or marketing

Similar technologies may perform related functions without using a traditional browser cookie.

These can include:

  • Local storage
  • Session storage
  • Tracking pixels
  • Tags
  • Scripts
  • Device identifiers
  • Software development kits
  • Embedded-content connections

UK privacy rules apply to storage and access technologies generally, not only to traditional browser cookies. Website operators must explain what these technologies do and normally obtain prior consent unless a relevant exception applies.

4. First-party and third-party cookies

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by the SGL Hire website.

They may be used for:

  • Website security
  • Form operation
  • Remembering cookie choices
  • Maintaining website sessions
  • Providing essential functionality

Third-party cookies and connections

Third-party cookies or similar technologies may be set by external providers whose services appear on the website.

These may include:

  • YouTube
  • Google services
  • Social-media platforms
  • Analytics providers
  • Payment providers
  • CAPTCHA or anti-spam services
  • Live-chat or messaging services
  • Embedded maps
  • Marketing platforms

Some third-party technologies can recognise activity across different websites or devices. This can create additional privacy risks, particularly where visitors are unaware that tracking is taking place.

5. The types of cookies we may use

5.1 Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for the website or a service specifically requested by the visitor.

They may be used for:

  • Website security
  • Fraud and abuse prevention
  • Maintaining essential sessions
  • Remembering privacy choices
  • Load balancing
  • Completing or protecting website forms
  • Maintaining essential account functions
  • Remembering the contents of an active booking or enquiry process

Consent is not normally required where a technology is genuinely necessary to provide a service expressly requested by the visitor or to carry out essential communication functions.

A cookie is not automatically exempt merely because the website owner considers it useful. The necessity must relate to the visitor’s requested service.

5.2 Functional cookies

Functional cookies help provide optional features or remember choices.

They may be used to remember:

  • Preferred settings
  • Display choices
  • Previously entered information
  • Region or language preferences
  • Video or media preferences
  • Accessibility settings

Functional cookies may require consent where the feature is not strictly necessary for a service requested by the visitor.

5.3 Analytics and performance cookies

Analytics technologies may help us understand:

  • How many people visit the website
  • Which pages are viewed
  • How visitors move between pages
  • Whether errors occur
  • How quickly pages load
  • Which devices and browsers are used
  • Which websites or campaigns lead visitors to SGL Hire

Analytics information may be used to improve:

  • Navigation
  • Website content
  • Equipment information
  • Forms
  • Performance
  • Accessibility
  • Marketing effectiveness

Depending on how a particular analytics tool is configured and the legal exception being relied upon, consent may be required before it operates.

As UK cookie rules have recently changed, the final configuration should be assessed against the technology actually used and current ICO guidance. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 introduced additional potential exceptions for certain limited uses, but this does not create a general exemption for all analytics or tracking.

Until the configuration has been audited and confirmed, the safest approach is to keep non-essential analytics disabled until the visitor accepts analytics cookies.

5.4 Advertising and marketing cookies

Advertising or marketing technologies may be used to:

  • Measure advertising campaigns
  • Record conversions
  • Build visitor profiles
  • Display personalised advertisements
  • Limit how often an advertisement is shown
  • Retarget visitors on other websites
  • Link website activity to social-media or advertising accounts

SGL Hire should not activate advertising or behavioural-tracking technologies before receiving valid consent.

The ICO has specifically examined whether non-essential advertising cookies are placed before visitors are given a choice and whether refusing them is as easy as accepting them.

The website does not currently intend to use behavioural advertising unless this is clearly disclosed and managed through the consent system.

5.5 Embedded-media technologies

Website pages may include embedded content such as:

  • YouTube videos
  • Manufacturer videos
  • Maps
  • Social-media posts
  • External product viewers
  • PDF viewers
  • Other third-party media

Loading embedded content may cause the visitor’s browser to connect directly to the third-party provider.

The provider may receive information such as:

  • IP address
  • Browser details
  • Device information
  • Referring page
  • Date and time of access
  • Account information where the visitor is signed in to that service

Embedded media should be blocked behind consent where loading it would activate non-essential cookies or tracking technologies.

The ICO suggests that embedded-video consent can be handled through the main consent mechanism or through a just-in-time request shown when the visitor chooses to load the video.

6. YouTube videos

SGL Hire pages may contain YouTube videos demonstrating:

  • Welding machines
  • Plasma cutters
  • Magnetic drills
  • Portable power equipment
  • Equipment setup
  • Manufacturer guidance

Where available, videos should use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.

Privacy-enhanced embedding can reduce some tracking before playback, but it does not guarantee that no information will be transmitted or that no cookies will ever be set. The ICO itself notes that a YouTube video used in privacy-enhanced mode may still set a cookie.

The preferred website behaviour is:

  1. The page initially shows a video placeholder.
  2. YouTube is not loaded until the visitor has accepted the relevant cookie category or chosen to load the video.
  3. The placeholder explains that loading the video connects to YouTube.
  4. The visitor can continue using the page without loading the video.

The final cookie audit must identify whether each YouTube embed:

  • Uses youtube-nocookie.com
  • Loads before consent
  • Sets cookies before playback
  • Sends information to Google or YouTube
  • Is controlled by the consent plugin

7. Website forms

SGL Hire may use WordPress and Forminator to operate forms including:

  • Request a Quote
  • Contact Us
  • Request a Callback
  • Trade Account Application
  • Equipment enquiries
  • Delivery enquiries

Form-related cookies or storage technologies may be used to:

  • Maintain the form session
  • Prevent duplicate submissions
  • Protect against spam
  • Preserve entered information
  • Record successful submission
  • Apply security controls

Some form functions may rely on external anti-spam or CAPTCHA providers.

Before publication, confirm whether the site uses:

  • Google reCAPTCHA
  • Cloudflare Turnstile
  • hCaptcha
  • Akismet
  • Another spam-prevention service

External CAPTCHA and anti-spam services may collect device and network information and may require consent depending on how they operate and whether they are strictly necessary.

8. Security technologies

Security tools may use cookies, local storage, IP addresses or other identifiers to:

  • Prevent unauthorised access
  • Detect malicious traffic
  • Block spam
  • Apply rate limits
  • Identify repeated failed logins
  • Maintain firewall protection
  • Protect website forms
  • Record security events

Where these technologies are genuinely necessary to secure the website or provide a requested service, they may fall within an applicable exception.

The final audit must identify any services used, including:

  • Hostinger security tools
  • WordPress security plugins
  • Cloudflare
  • Firewall services
  • Login-protection tools
  • Malware scanning
  • Anti-spam systems

9. Cookie consent

Where consent is required, it must be:

  • Freely given
  • Specific
  • Informed
  • Unambiguous
  • Given through a clear positive action

Simply continuing to browse the website should not be treated as consent to non-essential cookies.

Consent information must be clear and easy to find. It is not sufficient to hide cookie information inside a privacy policy that visitors are unlikely to read.

The SGL Hire consent system should provide clear choices such as:

  • Accept all
  • Reject non-essential cookies
  • Choose preferences

Rejecting non-essential cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them.

No non-essential technology should activate before the required consent has been recorded.

10. Withdrawing or changing consent

Visitors must be able to change or withdraw consent at any time.

The website should provide a persistent link or button labelled something similar to:

  • Cookie Settings
  • Privacy Settings
  • Manage Cookies
  • Change Cookie Preferences

Withdrawing consent must be as easy as giving it.

Once consent has been withdrawn, processing that depends on that consent should stop as soon as reasonably possible.

Withdrawing consent does not:

  • Make earlier consent-based processing unlawful
  • Necessarily remove cookies already stored on the device
  • Prevent strictly necessary technologies from operating

Visitors may need to delete existing cookies through their browser settings where the consent tool cannot remove them automatically.

11. How long cookies remain

Cookies may be:

Session cookies

These normally expire when the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies

These remain for a specified period or until the visitor deletes them.

The lifetime of each cookie must be shown in the final cookie table.

Cookie durations should be no longer than reasonably necessary for their purpose.

12. Managing cookies through a browser

Most browsers allow users to:

  • View stored cookies
  • Delete cookies
  • Block all cookies
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Receive warnings before cookies are stored
  • Clear website data
  • Restrict tracking

Blocking all cookies may prevent some website features from operating correctly.

Browser controls operate separately from the SGL Hire consent tool.

13. Do Not Track and browser privacy signals

Some browsers or devices send privacy preference signals.

The website may not currently respond automatically to every browser signal.

Where the consent platform supports recognised privacy controls, its configuration should be reviewed and documented.

This policy should be updated where a browser-level privacy signal is used to control the website’s processing.

14. Current and expected website services

The website is currently expected to use some or all of the following:

  • Hostinger hosting
  • WordPress
  • Kadence theme
  • Forminator
  • SEOPress
  • YouTube embeds
  • Website-security tools
  • Cookie-consent software
  • Social-media links
  • Email services

The presence of a plugin does not necessarily mean that it sets a cookie or transfers personal information.

The live website must be scanned after configuration to identify which technologies actually operate.

15. Final cookie table

The final table must be generated from a live technical audit.

The following headings should be used:

Cookie or technology Provider Category Purpose Expiry First or third party Activated before consent?
To be confirmed by live audit To be confirmed Necessary, functional, analytics, marketing or media To be confirmed To be confirmed To be confirmed To be confirmed

The completed table should include:

  • Cookie name
  • Local-storage key where applicable
  • Provider
  • Domain
  • Purpose
  • Category
  • Duration
  • Whether it is essential
  • Whether it transfers information internationally
  • Whether consent is required
  • Which plugin or service creates it

16. Cookie audit checklist

Before this policy is published, confirm:

  • Which cookie-consent plugin is installed
  • Whether it blocks scripts before consent
  • Whether Reject All is as prominent and simple as Accept All
  • Whether cookie categories are clearly explained
  • Whether consent records are retained
  • Whether a permanent Cookie Settings link is available
  • Whether YouTube videos are blocked before consent
  • Whether YouTube privacy-enhanced mode is used
  • Whether analytics software is installed
  • Whether analytics operates before consent
  • Whether advertising pixels are installed
  • Whether Google services are used
  • Whether reCAPTCHA, Turnstile or hCaptcha is used
  • Whether Forminator sets cookies or local-storage entries
  • Whether Hostinger injects analytics or security technologies
  • Whether SEOPress adds any tracking
  • Whether embedded maps are used
  • Whether social-media embeds are used
  • Whether live chat or WhatsApp widgets are used
  • Whether payment providers place cookies
  • Whether cookie durations are accurate
  • Whether international transfers are explained
  • Whether the Privacy Policy matches the cookie configuration

17. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this policy where:

  • The website changes
  • New services are installed
  • Cookies are added or removed
  • Consent settings change
  • Legal requirements change
  • Third-party providers change their technology

The latest version will be published on this page.

A fresh consent request may be displayed where a material change affects the purposes or categories previously accepted.

18. Contact us

Questions about this Cookie Policy or the website’s use of tracking technologies can be sent to:

SGL Hire
Sultani Gas Limited
Unit 5 Underlyn Industrial Estate
Marden
Kent
TN12 9AT

Telephone: 01622 910075
Email: helpdesk@sglhire.co.uk

Last updated

31 July 2026