www.giant-bicycles.com places information on your computer through the use of cookies.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device by our web server so that our website can remember some information about your browsing activity on our site. At each page of www.giant-bicycles.com you visit, information is sent back to the server - cookies will collect information about how you use our website, demographic data, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and the browser you used to visit our site and if you arrived at our site via a link from another website, the URL of the linking page.
www.giant-bicycles.com uses some different types of cookies;
Essential or ‘Strictly Necessary’ Cookies
These cookies are essential for the running of our website and without them parts of our website wouldn’t work. They don’t track where you have been on the internet and don’t gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow us to recognise your browser - we use this function to remember your preference so that you do not have to select your chosen country on each visit. We can’t use these cookies to identify you personally and they don’t track your internet usage.
Analytical Performance Cookies
Analytical performance cookies are used to monitor our websites performance, tracking statistics such as the number of unique users visiting our site and the number of pages that are viewed. Web analytics services may be designed and operated by third parties such as Google Analytics. This information is anonymous, it doesn’t contain personal information and can’t be used to identify you and is used for statistical purposes only. The information provided by these cookies allows us to analyse patterns of behaviour on our website and improve the experience we provide based on this information.
Other Third Party Cookies
We use external sites to add functionality to www.giant-bicycles.com - for example we offer the ability to share articles on social media share buttons and AddThis. We regularly add videos from Youtube, Vimeo and other sites. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third party service providers can set their own cookies on your device. Giant does not control or have access to the information contained in these cookies, but for more information please check the cookie policy of the third party site.