What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, to improve the user experience, and to provide information to the site owners.
How We Use Cookies
Our website uses cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. They enable you to navigate through the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas.
- Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. These cookies help us understand user behavior, which enables us to improve our website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features, such as personalized content.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver ads that are relevant to you and track the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
- Google Maps Cookies: We integrate Google Maps on our website to provide interactive map features. Google Maps may use cookies to remember your preferences and gather information about your interactions with the map.
Adobe Analytics
Adobe Analytics uses the following types of cookies:
- s7: Gather data regarding site usage and user behavior on the website. Domain - core.service.elfsight.com
Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics uses the following types of cookies:
- _ga: This cookie is used to distinguish users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data. It typically expires after 2 years.
- _gid: This cookie is used to store and update a unique value for each page visited. It typically expires after 24 hours.
- _gat: This cookie is used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. It typically expires after 1 minute.
- gac: This cookie contains information related to campaign clicks. If you’ve linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, conversion tags on the Google Ads website will read this cookie, unless you opt out.
These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.
For more details, you can visit Google’s Privacy & Terms page.
Google Maps Cookies
When you use Google Maps on our website, Google may collect the following data:
- NID: A cookie used to remember your preferences and other information.
- 1P_JAR: Used to gather site statistics and track conversion rates.
- CONSENT: Tracks consent for Google’s cookie usage.
Details on how Google uses cookies can be found on their Privacy & Terms page.
Functionality Cookies
- PHPSESSID: Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to users:
Meta Platforms, Inc
- LastExternalReferrerTime: Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.
- LastExternalReferrer: Detects how the user reached the website by registering their last URL-address.
DoubleClick
- IDE: Used to measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. Expires in 1.5 years. - Domain .doubleclick.net
- test_cookie: A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. - Domain .doubleclick.net
Facebook
- _fbp: Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising. - Domain .brindlehomes.co.uk
Google Ads
- _gcl_au: Used by Google Ads for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. - Domain .brindlehomes.co.uk
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You can choose whether to accept or reject cookies. You can change your cookie settings through your browser settings. Here’s how:
- Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data.
- Select your preferred settings.
- Go to Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
- Select your preferred settings.
- Go to Preferences > Privacy.
- Select your preferred settings.
- Go to Settings > Site permissions > Cookies and site data.
- Select your preferred settings.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please check this page periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Brindle Homes
01254 790070
qualitycontrol@brindlehomes.co.uk