What Is A Cookie?
Website owners use a cookie policy to enhance experiences on their sites. Many of our websites use “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies by themselves do not tell us your email address or other personal information. Unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. When you choose to provide a website with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. A cookie is like an identification card. It is unique to your computer. The original server is the only thing that can read the cookie.
How Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies to understand site usage. We also use them to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalise your experience on our websites (e.g. to recognise you by name when you return to our site). We also may use cookies to offer you products and services which we believe you will like and welcome.
What Do Cookies Do?
Cookies save you time as they help us to remember who you are. Cookies help us to be more efficient. We can learn about what content is important to you and what is not. We can revise or remove websites that are not of interest and focus our energies on the content you want.
How To Control Cookies:
If you want to control which cookies you accept. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies. You will be alerted when a cookie is offered by a website’s server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies. You can delete existing cookies from your browser. Some parts of the site may not function properly if you have refused cookies.
Please be aware that if you do not configure your browser you will accept cookies provided by our websites.
How to see the cookies that you have accepted:
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server.
Other Software:
We may also use small pieces of software code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs”. These collect anonymous and aggregate advertising matrix, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. A web beacon is an electronic image, called a single-pixel or clear GIF. They can recognise certain types of information on users computers. This includes things such as a user’s cookie number, time and date of a page view. It also includes a description of the page where the web beacon is placed. You may render some web beacons unusable if you choose to reject their associated cookies. Web beacons can be used to deliver cookies that conform to our Cookie Policy.
Many of our search engine optimisation (SEO), Google Adwords or Pay Per Click (PPC). Web design customers utilise this page to provide details of the cookie policy of their business. This is an example of how we support our clients. This allows us to centrally update policy text on their website.
For more information on the use of cookies, our services or a specific company’s policy – please contact us on 0333 7000 787