Cookie policy

This website sets one cookie of its own, and it exists only to remember how you answered the cookie question so we do not ask again on every page.

Nothing else is set unless you agree to it. Until you choose, analytics stays switched off and the Google map on our contact page does not load. If you never choose, nothing beyond that one cookie is ever stored.

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. It lets a site recognise the same browser on a later page or a later visit. Some cookies are needed for a site to work at all; others watch how you use it, or follow you to other sites. We use the first kind, and, if you allow it, a little of the second.

Strictly necessary. Set whatever you choose, because without it we cannot record your choice.

clarks_cookie_consent

Records that you have answered the cookie banner, so it stays closed. Set by this website. Expires after 12 months.

clarks_cookie_preferences

Stored in your browser alongside the above, holding which categories you allowed. Strictly this is local storage rather than a cookie, but it does the same job and is cleared the same way. Kept until you clear it or change your choice.

If you turn analytics on, we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read — how many people looked at conservatories, whether anyone reaches the contact page. It tells us what to improve. It does not tell us who you are, and we never use it to build a profile or to advertise to you.

Google Analytics sets cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by a property code. They last up to two years and record a randomly generated identifier for your browser, not your name.

These are only ever set after you agree. Before that, they are blocked, using Google's own consent mechanism rather than merely being asked not to.

Our contact page can show a Google map of the workshop. That map is loaded from Google, and Google sets its own cookies the moment it appears.

So it does not appear until you ask for it. If you have allowed the maps category, it loads with the page; if you have not, it stays behind a button and nothing is set until you press it. Either way there is a plain link to the same location next to it, which sets nothing at all.

• We do not run advertising or re-marketing tags. Nothing on this site follows you to another one.
• We do not embed social media trackers or share buttons that report your visit back.
• We do not sell or share what analytics tells us with anybody.
• We do not use cookie walls. Refusing everything optional leaves the whole site working exactly as it does otherwise.

Use the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page. You can change any category, and turning something off takes effect immediately.

You can also clear cookies in your browser, which forgets your choice entirely and means we will ask again. Every current browser has this in its privacy or history settings, and all of them let you block cookies altogether if you prefer.

If you want to know more about how we handle your information, our privacy policy covers it in full. If anything here is unclear, email info@clarksglass.com or call 01273 814077.