Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 5 July 2021

What’s a cookie?

 

  • A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

 

  • Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

 

We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

How do we use cookies?

 

  • We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

 

  • Cookies are either:

 

– Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or

 

– Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

 

  • Cookies can also be categorised as follows:

 

– Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.

 

– Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.

 

– Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.

 

Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

– First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.

We use third party cookies on our website and these are set out in the table below.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title

Cookie Name

 

Purpose

_ga

 

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.

 

_gid

 

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.

 

_gat_gtag_UA_159833087_1

 

This cookie is set by Google and used to distinguish visitors.

apbct_page_hits

 

apbct_cookies_test

 

apbct_urls

 

apbct_site_referer

 

ct_sfw_pass_key

 

apbct_timestamp

 

apbct_site_landing_ts

 

apbct_page_hits

 

apbct_cookies_test

 

ct_sfw_pass_key

 

ct_ps_timestamp

 

ct_fkp_timestamp

 

apbct_visible_fields

 

ct_checked_emails

 

ct_screen_info

 

ct_has_scrolled

 

ct_checkjs

 

CleanTalk used to prevent spam on our comments and forms and acts as a complete anti-spam solution and firewall for this site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by [INSERT YOUR MECHANISM FOR DOING THIS EG BY CLICKING ON THE COOKIE ICON AND ADJUSTING THE SLIDERS TO ‘OFF’ ]. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.

You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies ill expire. Expiry periods for different cookies vary between the end of your session, 1 – 3 days, 1 month to 2 years.

 

If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at sarah@sarahroberts.uk

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