Cookie Policy

What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your computer, phone or tablet. Sites use them to remember you between visits, keep you signed in, or — most often — to count visitors and track what they look at. Similar technologies such as local storage, pixels and browser fingerprinting do much the same job by different means.

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), a UK website must get your consent before setting any cookie that is not strictly necessary to provide the service you asked for. That is why we ask before Google Analytics runs.

Google Analytics (only if you accept)

If you accept, Google Analytics records things like which pages you visit, how long you stay, roughly where in the country you are browsing from, what kind of device you use and how you found the site. We see this only as totals and trends — it helps us understand which services people are looking for and whether the site is working well. We cannot see who you are, and we do not use it for advertising. Google's advertising features are switched off.

It sets these cookies on your device:

• _ga — tells one visit from another by giving your browser a random ID. Expires after 2 years.
• _ga_PBWJGV9HTT — keeps track of the current visit for the same purpose. Expires after 2 years.

Google Analytics is provided by Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC, which process the data on our behalf. Google explains how it handles this information inhow Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Your choice, stored on your device

To remember whether you accepted or rejected, the site saves a single entry calledcookie-consent in your browser's local storage. It holds only the wordgranted or denied, never leaves your device, and is strictly necessary to respect your choice, so it does not need consent itself.

Changing your mind

You can change your choice at any time. Use the button below, or theCookie settings link at the foot of every page, to reopen the banner. If you switch from accept to reject, analytics stops straight away and we delete the Google Analytics cookies from your browser.

Change cookie settings

Other things this site loads

This is a static brochure website. Every page is plain HTML delivered from our host, with no accounts, no baskets and no sessions to remember. Three things are worth being clear about:

• Typefaces from Google Fonts. The headings and body text load from Google's font service. This does not set a cookie, but your browser has to ask Google's servers for the files, so your IP address is visible to Google in the process. We receive nothing from it and cannot identify you through it.
• Hosting and security by Cloudflare. Our host keeps short-lived server logs to deliver pages and protect the site against attacks. In the configuration we use, no cookie is placed on your device.
• The map in the footer. Every page ends with a Google map showing where we are. It is a frame served by Google, and it loads only once you scroll far enough down the page to reach it. Inside that frame Google can set cookies and read identifiers, under its own privacy policy rather than ours; we receive nothing back from it and cannot identify you through it. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser stops it, and the rest of the site carries on working normally.

Links to WhatsApp and Google Maps open on those companies' own websites. Once you leave this site, their own cookie and privacy policies apply, not ours — nothing is set until you choose to follow the link.

Managing cookies in your browser

Every major browser also lets you view, block and delete cookies from all the sites you visit. You will normally find the controls under Settings, then Privacy. The Information Commissioner's Office publishes plain-English guidance oncookies and how to control them.

If this changes

If we ever add anything else that needs cookies, we will update this page and ask for your consent before it is set. We will not quietly start tracking you.

Questions

Ask us anything about this page by email at[email protected] or by phone on01626 200987. For how we handle the details you send us when you request a quote, see ourPrivacy Policy.