What are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other device when a website is loaded within your chosen browser. They can help to ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and also perform essential functions of a website. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as ‘first party cookies’), or by other websites who serve up content on that site (‘third party cookies’).
What are ‘Strictly Necessary Cookies’?
These are cookies that are essential for this website to perform its basic functions. These include those required to record user cookie preferences. These cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them however you may be able to block these cookies in your browser settings.
Please see the Strictly Necessary Cookies we use in the table below and the duration they are stored on your computer or device:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration |
| cookiehub | .bpcollins.co.uk | Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site. | 1 year |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | 6 months |
What are ‘Functionality Cookies’?
These are cookies that we use to provide certain features of our website.
Please see the Functionality Cookies we use in the table below and the duration they are stored on your computer or device:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration |
| MoneypennyRef | .www.bpcollins.co.uk | MoneyPenny sets this cookie as part of the chat software used to enable live chat on a website. | 2 hours |
| MoneypennyHistory | .www.bpcollins.co.uk | MoneyPenny sets this cookie as part of the chat software used to enable live chat on a website. | 1 year |
| MoneypennyUserAlias | .www.bpcollins.co.uk | MoneyPenny sets this cookie as part of the chat software used to enable live chat on a website. | 1 year |
| MoneypennyVisit | .www.bpcollins.co.uk | MoneyPenny sets this cookie to tacking usage for live chat usage. | Session |
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor’s consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | 6 months |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | 1 day |
What are ‘Analytical Cookies’?
These are cookies that we allow us to count the number of visitors to our website and how visitors move around our website. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Please see the Analytical Cookies we use in the table below and the duration they are stored on your computer or device:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration |
| _ga_* | .bpcollins.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _gcl_au | .bpcollins.co.uk | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
| _ga | .bpcollins.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _gid | .bpcollins.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
| _gat_UA-* | .bpcollins.co.uk | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. | 1 minute |
| ct279156 | 279156.tctm.co | session |
What are ‘Advertisement Cookies’?
These cookies are used to record your visit to our website and the pages you visited that led to our website. These cookies can also make advertisements more relevant to you.
Please see the Advertisement Cookies we use in the table below and the duration they are stored on your computer or device:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration |
| __ctmid | .www.bpcollins.co.uk | CallTrackingMetrics sets this cookie to determine the advertising channel that led a visitor to the website and also show the tracking phone number that corresponds to that channel. | 1 month |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days |
| li_sugr | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | 3 months |
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | 1 year |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
| _fbp | .bpcollins.co.uk | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | 3 months |
How can you choose which Cookies we can set?
When you first visit our website, you will be asked to submit your cookie preferences. After you have initially submitted your cookie preferences, you can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Cookie Settings’ at the bottom of our website or by clicking here.
Cookies used on the site are categorised and you can allow or deny some or all categories of cookies (except for the strictly necessary category). To select your cookie preferences, adjust the available sliders on (blue) or off (grey) for each category and then click ‘Save Settings’.
Additional ways to change your Cookie preferences
The most popular web browsers typically provide additional tools to users for controlling or restricting cookies on their device. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at enquiries@bpcollins.co.uk.
