This cookie policy contains important information on our use of cookies or similar technologies on our website.
Our website
This cookie policy relates to your use of our website on both of our domains, www.bowerbailey.co.uk and www.bowerandbailey.co.uk.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate cookie policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their cookie policies as appropriate.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your device (e.g computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions. For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of a user’s internet service provider. This information helps us to build an understanding of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. The websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, if you do this, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Our use of cookies
We use cookies to:
- Recognise you whenever you visit this website
- Obtain information about your preferences and use of our website
- Carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content
- Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
For further information on cookies generally visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Types of cookies
Broadly there are four types of cookie:
Strictly necessary cookies – these are cookies that are essential to make a website work and enable features that users have specifically asked for. Without use of cookies, these features of the website could not operate.
Performance cookies – these cookies collect anonymous information about users for the purpose of assessing the performance of a website. Common uses include well-known analytics tools such as ‘Google Analytics.’
Functionality cookies – These are cookies that automatically remember choices that users have previously made in order to improve their experience next time they visit a website. For example, where users select their preferred settings and layout.
Targeting and Advertising cookies – These cookies are similar to performance cookies, in that they collect information about users’ behaviour. However, this information is used at individual user level to advertise products and services to users on the basis of the behavioural information collected.
How do we use cookies?
The below table shows what cookies we use and why.
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| __atuvc | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
| __atuvs | 0 | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by addthis.com to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
| _ga | 0 | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session and 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. |
| _gat | 0 | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _gid | 0 | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information on how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report on how the website is doing. The data is collected in an anonymous form and includes the number of visitors, the source (ie where they have come from) and the pages visited. |
| bt2 | 0 | 8 months | This cookie is set by addthis.com to keep a record of parts of the site that have been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non-necessary". |
| di2 | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com on sites that allow sharing on social media. The cookie is used to track user behaviour anonymously to generate usage trends to improve relevance to the site's services and advertising. |
| loc | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com. This is a geolocation cookie for use in identifying the location of users sharing the information. |
| na_id | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com to enable sharing of links on social media platforms like Twitter. |
| ouid | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com. It enables the content of the website to be shared across different networking and social sharing websites. |
| uid | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is used to measure anonymously the number and behaviour of visitors to the site. The data includes the number of visits, the average duration of visits, pages visited, etc. for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisements. |
| uvc | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of the addthis.com service. |
| vc | 0 | 1 year | This cookie is set by addthis.com on sites that allow sharing on social media. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 0 | 1 hour | This cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not the user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
Consent
If you continue to use our website, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from our website.
If you would prefer to change your cookie settings, you can do so at any time – see below ‘How to turn off cookies’.
How to turn off cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: http://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
Changes to this policy
This policy was last updated on 5 March 2020.
