Privacy

The site sets up to six cookies and writes one entry to your browser’s local storage. Two are choices you made yourself. Four more belong to Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, and are set only if you turn on Performance cookies. Refuse, or close the banner without choosing, and they are never set. None of them carries your name:

• vh-cookie-consent, in local storage: your answer to the consent banner, so it is not asked twice. This one stays on your device.
• vh-currency and vh-unit, cookies: the currency and unit of measure you picked in the header. They travel with each request so that a page can be rendered in your choice on the server rather than corrected in the browser afterwards, and they carry nothing else.
• _ga and _ga_0DGHCCYRSS, cookies: set by Google Analytics, and only once you have turned Performance cookies on. They tell one browser from another and recognise a returning visit, holding a randomly generated number rather than a name or an address, and they expire after two years.
• _clck and _clsk, cookies: set by Microsoft Clarity on the same condition. They join the pages of one visit into a single recording and recognise a returning browser, again as randomly generated numbers. The first expires after a year, the second after a day.

Clearing site data in your browser removes all seven, and the site keeps working without them: prices fall back to USD, weights to kilograms, and the analytics count begins again from a new number. No cookie set on this domain is used for advertising. Two third parties do set identifiers on their own domains, and clearing this site’s data reaches neither: Microsoft, on clarity.ms and bing.com, when a recording is uploaded; and LinkedIn, on linkedin.com, but only if you have switched Targeting cookies on. LinkedIn’s are the ones that can be used to build a profile of your interests and to show you our advertising afterwards, which is exactly what that switch is asking you about.

Two things on this site come from another host, and only with your permission. Google Analytics 4, loaded from googletagmanager.com, records which pages were opened, in what order, roughly which country from, and which link or search brought you. Microsoft Clarity, loaded from clarity.ms, records the shape of a visit: where the pointer moved, what was clicked, how far a page was scrolled and where the visit ended, played back afterwards as a reconstruction of the page rather than as a video of your screen. Neither is given your name or your email, and text typed into a form is masked in the browser before a recording leaves it. For a visitor who has not switched Performance cookies on, neither is requested at all, so their weight, of which Google’s tag alone is 162 KB, is never downloaded either. We read both to see which parts of the catalogue are worth expanding, and we do not use them for advertising or share them with an advertising network. Google and Microsoft process the data as our analytics providers, on their own terms, and Microsoft’s tie to Bing means it also sets identifiers on its own domains. Apart from the advertising tag described below, nothing else on the page is fetched from anywhere but this domain: no fonts, no maps, no embeds, no social widgets.

One further thing is loaded from another host, and only if you switch Targeting cookies on: the LinkedIn Insight Tag, from snap.licdn.com. If you are signed in to LinkedIn, it lets LinkedIn recognise your visit as that of one of its members. What reaches us is aggregate only: the industries, company sizes, seniorities and job functions of the people reading this catalogue. LinkedIn will show us none of it until at least 300 visitors have been matched, a threshold it applies so that no individual visitor is identifiable. The same tag can also be used to show our advertising to people who have read these pages, and that is why it sits behind Targeting rather than Performance. It is not a measurement of the site, it is a link between you and an advertising network. We send LinkedIn no name, no email and nothing you type into a form. Leave Targeting off and snap.licdn.com is never contacted at all.

The catalogue and forms are served through Supabase, which hosts our database. It processes data on our instruction and nothing else.

If you request a trade account, a quote or a sample, we keep what you type into the form: company name, contact name, business email, country and, if you give one, a VAT or tax number, together with the product the request was about.

We use it to verify the business, price the enquiry and reply. It is not sold, rented or passed to anyone for their own purposes. We keep it while there is a live trading relationship or an open enquiry, and remove it afterwards on request.

You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to contact@vnfmcg.com and we will answer within 30 days. If you are in the EU or UK and are not satisfied with the answer, you may complain to your national data protection authority.

If the site starts using something that collects data, whether analytics, an embedded map or a chat widget, this page is updated at the same time, not afterwards. Google Analytics was added on 6 August 2026 and this page changed with it. On 9 August 2026 it was put behind the banner’s Performance toggle, which until then had been drawn but wired to nothing, and this page changed with that too. Microsoft Clarity was added on the same day, behind the same toggle, and this page names it because a recording of a visit is a different thing from a count of one. The LinkedIn Insight Tag was added on 15 August 2026, behind the banner’s Targeting toggle, which until that day was drawn and wired to nothing, exactly as the Performance one had been, and this page changed with it. It is described in a paragraph of its own rather than folded into the sentence about analytics, because a tag that can be used to advertise to you is not a count of pages.

Last reviewed 15 August 2026.