Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Rapid Logistics Ltd, Unit 12, Buzzard Creek Industrial Estate, River Road, Barking IG11 0EL, uses cookies and similar technologies on this website. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy. It is written to meet the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to work more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels and scripts, and this policy uses "cookies" to refer to all of them.

Cookies can be first-party (set by the website you are visiting) or third-party (set by another service, such as an embedded map). They can be session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain until they expire or you delete them.

2. Why we use cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Strictly necessary – to load pages securely, keep the site stable and remember choices you make during a visit, such as the booking-form tab you selected.
• Functional – to support embedded features such as the location map on our Contact Us page.
• Performance and analytics – only where you consent, to understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it.
• Marketing – we do not currently use advertising cookies. If this changes, we will update this policy and request your consent first.

3. Cookies we use

Category	Provider	Purpose	Duration
Strictly necessary	Rapid Logistics / hosting provider	Security, load balancing and page delivery	Session
Functional	Google Maps (Contact Us page)	Display the interactive map and remember map preferences	Up to 6 months
Functional	Google (NID, CONSENT)	Store preferences set when interacting with Google services	Up to 6 months
Analytics (if enabled)	To be confirmed	Aggregate visitor statistics	Up to 13 months

Google's cookies are governed by Google's own privacy policy. We have no control over third-party cookies.

4. Consent

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent under PECR. All other cookies are used only when you allow them. You may withdraw consent at any time by clearing cookies in your browser; your choice will then be requested again on your next visit where consent tools are in use.

5. How to control cookies

Most browsers let you view, manage, block and delete cookies:

• Google Chrome – Settings › Privacy and security › Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox – Settings › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data
• Safari – Preferences › Privacy › Manage Website Data
• Microsoft Edge – Settings › Cookies and site permissions

If you block all cookies, some parts of the website, such as the embedded map, may not work. You can still view our address directly in Google Maps in a separate tab.

Further guidance is available from the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk and at aboutcookies.org.

6. Other tracking technologies

We do not use web beacons or fingerprinting to track you across other websites. Emails we send may contain standard delivery information generated by email providers.

7. Children

This website is not directed at children under 18 and we do not knowingly use cookies to collect information about children.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when we add, remove or change services on the website. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised date.

9. Contact

If you have questions about our use of cookies, contact info@rapidlogisticsltd.com or write to Rapid Logistics Ltd, Unit 12, Buzzard Creek Industrial Estate, River Road, Barking IG11 0EL. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk, 0303 123 1113).