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About this cookie policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: signspreston.co.uk
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description | Cookie ID | Cookie Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PSIDCC | Persistent | Expiration time is 2 years | Builds a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant and personalised ads through Google retargeting. | Google Ads | Necessary |
| _ga | Persistent | Expiration time is 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | Google Analytics | Necessary |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | _ga_* | non-necessary | |
| _gat_* | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 minute | This cookie is used by Google to distinguish users. | Google Analytics | Necessary |
| _gat_UA-* | Session | Expiration time is 1 minute | This cookie is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Google Analytics | Non-Necessary |
| _gcl_au | Persistent | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | Google Adsense | Non-Necessary |
| _gid | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | Google Analytics | Necessary |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Session | Expiration time is 5 months & 27 days | This cookie is to provide spam protection. reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. | Non-Necessary | |
| _vis_opt_test_cookie | session | Visual Website Optimizer creates this cookie to determine whether or not cookies are enabled on the user’s browser. | _vis_opt_test_cookie | non-necessary | |
| _vwo_uuid_v2 | 1 year | This cookie is set by Visual Website Optimiser and calculates unique traffic on a website. | _vwo_uuid_v2 | non-necessary | |
| 1P_JAR, CONSENT, NID | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 month | Set by Google. This group sets a unique ID to remember your preferences and other information such as website statistics and track conversion rates. Google’s policies can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/technologies/types | Non-Necessary | |
| ANID | Persistent | Expiration time is 2 years | The “ANID” cookie is used for advertising served across the web and stored in google.com. | Google Ads | Non-Necessary |
| cerber_groove, cerber_groove_x_* | Persistent | Expiration time is 2 weeks | This cookie is used to protect the website from hackers, brute force hacking, cyber criminals, spammers and bots. | Cerber Security & Anti-Spam | Non-Necessary |
| CONSENT | Unknown | 16 years 10 months 10 days 12 hours 25 minutes | This cookie is under investigation. | Unknown | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Unknown | Expiration time is 1 year | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Advertisement”. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | Persistent | Expiration time is 11 months | This cookies is set by GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress Plugin. The cookie is used to remember the user consent for the cookies under the category “Analytics”. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | Session | Expiration time is 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Session | Expiration time is per session | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The purpose of this cookie is to check whether or not the user has given the consent to the usage of cookies under the category ‘Necessary’. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | Session | Expiration time is per session | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about non-essential cookies on signspreston.co.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-other | Unknown | Expiration time is 1 hour | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Other”. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | Session | Expiration time is 11 months | The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Others”. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | Persistent | Expiration time is 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Performance”. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Non-Necessary |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 year | The cookie is used to store the summary of the consent given for cookie usage. It does not store any personal data. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Necessary |
| DSID, IDE | Persistent | Expiration time is 1.5 years | These cookies set by a third party (doubleclick.net) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website. For example, advertisements about a topic you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site may be displayed to you across the web. In addition, these cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. For more information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ If you wish to disable DoubleClick cookies on your browser please visit this website | Non-Necessary | |
| elementor | Persistent | Never | This cookie is used by the website’s WordPress theme. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time. | Elementor | Non-Necessary |
| IDE | Unknown | Expiration time is 1 year & 24 days | This cookie is used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | Non-Necessary | |
| mp_*_mixpanel | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 year | This cookie is used to make sure visitor page requests are routed to the same server in all browsing sessions and to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Mixpanel | Necessary |
| TawkConnectionTime | session | Tawk.to, a live chat functionality, sets this cookie. For improved service, this cookie helps remember users so that previous chats can be linked together. | TawkConnectionTime | non-necessary | |
| test_cookie | Session | Expiration time is 15 minute | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user’s browser supports cookies. | Non-Necessary | |
| twk_idm_key | session | No description | twk_idm_key | non-necessary | |
| uuid | 3 months | MediaMath sets this cookie to avoid the same ads from being shown repeatedly and for relevant advertising. | uuid | non-necessary | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 hour | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice on the website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. | GDPR Cookie Consent | Necessary |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Third Party | Expiration time is 5 months & 27 days | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. | Youtube | Non-Necessary |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | Persistent | Expiration time is per session | This is a WordPress session cookies set for a user who is logged in. | WordPress | Necessary |
| wordpress_sec_* | Session | Expiration time is per session | This is a WordPress session cookies set for a user who is logged in. | WordPress | Necessary |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Session | Expiration time is per session | This cookie tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled. | WordPress | Necessary |
| wp-settings-* | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 year | This cookie adds a number on the end that shows the individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customise your view of the admin interface, and the main site interface. | WordPress | Necessary |
| wp-settings-time-* | Persistent | Expiration time is 1 year | This cookie adds a number on the end that shows the individual user {time} from the users database table. This is used to customise your view of the admin interface, and the main site interface. | WordPress | Necessary |
| YSC | Third Party | Expiration time is per session | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | Youtube | Non-Necessary |
How can I control the cookie preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies by following the links below.
Please note that we do not currently respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
We strongly recommend that you leave Cookies active, because they enable you to take advantage of the most attractive features of the Site, but this remains your personal choice.
You can also visit the About Cookies, for more information about cookies and how to manage them.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We will review, and where necessary update, this policy. If we have your e-mail address, we may also e-mail you with information on those changes. If we need to, we will also ask you to confirm that you are happy with those changes.
Last Updated: November 2020.
