COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how County Durham Engineering and Manufacturing Network Limited, trading as Engineering & Manufacturing Network (EMN), uses cookies and similar technologies on the EMCON website.
For information about how we use personal information generally, please see our [Privacy Policy].
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites can store on your computer, smartphone or other device.
Cookies and similar technologies may be used to:
- Make a website work properly
- Maintain security
- Remember preferences
- Understand how a website is being used
- Measure website performance
- Provide additional functionality
- Support marketing or communications activities
2. How we use cookies
The EMCON website may use several categories of cookies and similar technologies.
Strictly necessary cookies
These technologies are required for the website to work properly or to provide functionality you have requested.
They may be used for purposes including:
- Website security
- Maintaining sessions
- Remembering cookie preferences
- Preventing fraudulent or malicious activity
- Providing requested website functionality
Strictly necessary technologies do not normally require consent.
Analytics cookies
We may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use the EMCON website.
Analytics may help us understand:
- How many people visit the website
- Which pages are viewed
- How visitors reach the website
- How long visitors spend on different pages
- Which devices and browsers are used
- Approximate visitor location
- How visitors interact with the website
We use this information to understand website performance and improve the website.
Where our use of analytics technologies requires your consent, they will not be activated until you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie controls.
Marketing and tracking technologies
We may use marketing or tracking technologies to understand the effectiveness of our communications or campaigns.
For example, if website-tracking functionality provided by Brevo or another communications platform is enabled, it may allow us to understand how someone interacts with the EMCON website following an email or other communication.
Where these technologies require consent, they will not be activated until you have agreed to their use.
Functional and third-party technologies
Some website functionality may be provided by third parties.
Depending on how the EMCON website is configured, this could include services provided by:
- Brevo
- Glue Up
- Video providers
- Mapping providers
- Event-registration services
- Security or anti-spam services
These services may use cookies or similar technologies when their functionality is used.
Where consent is required, the relevant technology will be managed through our cookie controls.
3. Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help us understand how the EMCON website is used.
Where enabled, Google Analytics may use cookies including:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
Helps distinguish visitors for analytics purposes | Up to 2 years |
_ga_<identifier> |
Helps maintain session information | Up to 2 years |
The exact cookies used can depend on how Google Analytics is configured.
4. Brevo
EMN uses Brevo for some email and marketing communications.
Using Brevo to send email does not by itself necessarily mean that Brevo places cookies on the EMCON website.
If Brevo website-tracking functionality is enabled in future, any cookies or similar technologies it uses will be identified and managed through our cookie controls as appropriate.
5. Glue Up
EMN may use Glue Up for CRM, event management, membership management and communications.
Where Glue Up is used solely as a back-office system, it may not place cookies on the EMCON website.
If Glue Up functionality is embedded in or integrated with the website in a way that uses cookies or similar technologies, those technologies will be identified and managed appropriately.
6. Cookies currently in use
The cookies and similar technologies used by the EMCON website may change as the website and its functionality develop.
Our cookie-management system should provide current information about the cookies detected on the website, including their:
- Name
- Provider
- Purpose
- Category
- Duration
We periodically review the technologies used by the website and update our cookie information where appropriate.
7. Managing your choices
Where consent is required, you will be given a choice about whether optional cookies and similar technologies are used.
Our cookie controls may allow you to:
Accept optional cookies
Reject optional cookies
Manage your preferences
You can change your choices or withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie Settings link or control available on the website.
Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
8. Browser controls
Most web browsers also allow you to view, delete or block cookies.
Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent some parts of the website from operating correctly.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy as the technologies used by the EMCON website change.
The latest version will always be available on this website.
10. Contact us
If you have questions about the use of cookies or similar technologies on the EMCON website, please contact:
County Durham Engineering and Manufacturing Network Limited
Trading as Engineering & Manufacturing Network (EMN)
Tanfield Lea Business Centre
Tanfield Lea Industrial Estate North
Tanfield Lea
Stanley
England
DH9 9DB
Email: enquiries@emn.org.uk
Please also see our [Privacy Policy] for further information about how we use personal information.