What are cookies?
Cookies are small files stored on your computer that allow websites to recognise you when you visit. They store data about your browsing history, but they do not identify you as an individual. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service, by enhancing the online experience for our website visitors and allowing us to better understand how our websites are used and to monitor its performance. They can also provide social media adverts tailored to you as well as social media advertising programmes such as Facebook Customer Audience.
Use of cookies
Our cookies help us:
- To provide a more personalized experience on the site;
- To provide anonymous usage statistics;
- The cookies used on the secure payment pages are used to maintain the state between pages while making a purchase, no payment details are stored in our website.
Managing cookies
If you do not want cookies to be stored on your PC or device, it is possible to disable this function within your browser. However, doing so may result in a loss of functionality when using ours and other’s websites.
Click here to find out how to manage cookies in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Click here to find out how to manage cookies in Microsoft Edge
Click here to find out how to manage cookies in Google Chrome
Click here to find out how to manage cookies in Mozilla Firefox
Click here to find out how to manage cookies in Opera
Cookies we use and why
| Name of cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
| First Party Cookies | ||
| catAccCookies | Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. | 30 days once accepted |
| Third Party – Google | ||
| CONSENT | Cookie consent setting | 20 years |
| _ga | The Google Universal Analytics javascript library uses first-party cookies to: distinguish unique users and throttle the request rate. | Lasts for two years of inactivity. Every time a user visits your site, this extends the expiration to two years from the latest date. |
| _gid | Lasts for 24 hours of inactivity. | |
| _gat | Session Cookie | |
| Third Party – Google Analytics | ||
| __utma | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. | 2 years |
| __utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 mins from set/update |
| __utmc | This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | End of browser session |
| __utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the Javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months from visit to site |
| __utmt | Used to optimise the rate of requests | 10 minutes |
| Third Party – Google Maps | ||
| 1P_JAR | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | 1 month |
| APISID | Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps | Session Cookie |
| DSID | This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. | 2 months |
| DV | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | Session cookie |
| HSID | Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps | Session cookie |
| IDE | This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. | 2 months |
| NID | Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes | 6 months |
| OTZ | Aggregate analysis of website visitors | 1 month |
| SAPISID | Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps | Session cookie |
| SID | Used by Google to store user preferences and information | Session cookie |
| SIDCC | Used by Google to store user preferences and information | 3 months |
| SSID | Used by Google to store user preferences and information | 2 years |
| Third Party - Twitter | ||
| personalization_id | Primarily used for tracking and targeting. | 730 days |
| guest_id | Primarily used for tracking and targeting. | 730 Days |
| lang | Primarily used for tracking and targeting. | Session Cookie |
| Third Party – YouTube | ||
| PREF | This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | 10 years |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old. | 8 months |
| YSC | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video | Session Cookie |
| Third Party - AddThis | ||
| __atuvc__atuvs
UID Ouid Mus Loc uvc
|
These are used to track usage of the Addthis.com service. It allows a user to share a webpage with many social sites. | 2 years |
| Third Party – WooCommerce | ||
| woocommerce_cart_hashwoocommerce_items_in_cart
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These two cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and helps WooCommerce know when the cart data changes | Until you close your browser |
| wp_woocommerce_session_ | contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies. | 3 Days |
| Third Party - Misc | ||
| _kuid_SEUNCY | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 179 days |
| TapAd_DIDTapAd_TS
TapAd_TTD_SYNC |
Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. | 2 Months |
| TDCPMTDID | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 1 Year |
| RUN_ID | Targeting/advertising | 3 Months |
| Third Party - Bluekai | ||
| Bkubkdc | BlueKai installs a tracker cookie on your device which collects data on your browsing habits on different websites using the tracker’s unique ID number. We use this data to profile visitors to our website and define detailed market segments, for use in our marketing campaign strategy. | 1 year |
Please note:
We may change this policy from time to time to ensure it is up to date and in line with any changes in legislation. Please visit our website at www.brianhouse.org.uk/privacy-policy periodically to keep up to date with changes.
Updated May 2018