Cookie Policy
Please read our cookie policy below:

Cookie Policy
Last Updated 20th November 2025

1. Overview

Pioneer Mountaineering produced this Cookie policy to explain how Pioneer Mountaineering ("Company," "we," "us," and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at https://pioneermountaineering.co.uk ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

2. What are Cookies and why are they used?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by us are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.

3. Can i control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your rights by setting your preferences in the User Centrics Consent Manager. The User Centrics Consent Manager allows you, as the website user, to choose which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services, and this does not affect your rights as a user, as you are free to leave the site if you do not consent to the use of essential cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. You can also set your web browser controls to accept or refuse the use of cookies. The specific types of cookies served through our Website and their purposes are highlighted below. We want to highlight that the use of specific cookies can depend on the specific properties of the website you visit.

Cookies:

Essential cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and for the use of some of its features, such as access to your account information.

Cookie Name	Purpose	Duration	Cookie Type
smSession	Identifies authenticated users to a server, such as logged-in site members.	Session	Functional
_GRECAPTCHA	A cookie used to distinguish between human users and automated bots.	6 months	Functional
SOCS	Cookie used by Google to store a user's state regarding their cookie choices.	12 months	Third Party
NID	Cookie set by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences.	183 days	Third-Party
DV	Used to provide ad delivery of retargeting for Marketing purposes.	24 Hours	Third-Party
AEC	Used to ensure that requests within a session are made by the user.	180 days	Third-Party
__Secure-BUCKET	Store settings such as your preferred language and whether Safesearch is enabled etc.	6 months	Third-Party
consent-policy	Manages user consent to data collection and tracking.	12 months	Essential
wixSession	Cookie for security, stability, and core site function.	12 months	Essential
oAuthState	Session cookie for identification.	Session	Essential
client-session-bind	Cookie for API protection.	Session	Essential
server-session-bind	Cookie for API protection.	Session	Essential
_wixAB3\|*	Cookie for site experiments.	6 months	Essential
fedops.logger.sessionld	Tracking session errors and issues (resilience).	12 months	Essential
bSession	Used for system effectiveness measurement.	24 hours	Essential
TS*	Cookies for attack detection.	Session	Essential
SSR-caching	Performance cookie for rendering.	24 hours	Essential
svSession	Cookie for security, stability, and core site function.	12 months	Essential
hs	Security Cookie for Hive (legacy).	Session	Essential
XSRF-TOKEN	A cookie for fraud detection of calls.	Session	Essential

4. What control do I have over Cookies?

You can refuse cookies through your web browser settings but these may be slightly different between browsers. We recommend visiting your browser's help menu for more information. Below we have listed links to various browser instructions about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

5. Does our Cookie Policy get updated?

We may update this Cookie Policy, and if the policy is updated or any of the wording in this notice then an updated date will be present at the top of this Cookie Policy. If we make material changes to this Cookie Policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy frequently to be informed of how Cookies are being used.

6. Can i get further information or ask any questions?

Yes, of course you can. If you email privacy@pioneermountaineering.co.uk, then we will respond to your query about the use of Cookies and other technologies as soon as possible.

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