Our Cookies Policy

A cookie is a small text file sent to your device from a website which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer.  They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as provide information to website owners.

Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

Details of the cookies we use and why are set out below:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are essential to enable you to browse around our websites and for us to maintain your security and privacy while using the website. They are always ‘on’ as without these cookies we can’t operate our website.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to collect information about how you use our website – for instance, which pages you go to most. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.  When we use the information generated from these cookies, we aggregate it and make it anonymous so that it does not identify you.
• E-Marketing cookies. We may use third party providers like Mailchimp, Transpond etc to send out marketing communications via email. If you click through from one of our emails to our website, we use additional cookies to connect your e-marketing journey with your website journey. This is to help us to provide you with relevant content across our digital marketing channels.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Cookie	Description
_ga	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
_gat_gtag_UA_32854648_1	Set by Google to distinguish users.
_gid	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
_GRECAPTCHA	This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Analytics" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional	The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Necessary" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Non-necessary" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category "Others".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category "Performance".

 

The information generated by the Google Analytics cookies (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on activity and providing other services relating to activity and internet usage.  Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

To see more information on the cookies set by Google Analytics see: Cookies and Google Analytics.  To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

We may also use other technologies with similar functionality to cookies, such as web beacons and tracking URLs on our website and in emails, for example, to determine whether a recipient opened the email or accessed a certain link.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. You can also set your browser to alert you when a website sets or accesses cookies. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how to do this.

Your current consent status for our website is below.  You can change this by clicking on the ‘manage your consent’ link below:

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our websites.

We are LegalEdge LLP. If you have any questions or would like to contact us about this policy, you can contact us by email at info@legaledge.co.uk.

We keep our cookies policy under regular review.  You can find when this version of the policy became effective at the top of this policy.