This website cookie policy was last updated on 9th July 2026
Please read this policy carefully, as it contains important information about who we are and how we use cookies and similar technologies (which we will refer to collectively in this policy and on our cookie banner as “cookies”) on our Website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice, which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal data (information) generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal data and details of how to contact us and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you have a complaint.
Who we are and contact details
Our Website is operated by Trethowans LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC342356. Our registered office is London Road, Salisbury, SP1 3HP.
We are a member of the Lawfront Group and are a wholly owned subsidiary of Lawfront Holdings Limited, a limited company registered in England & Wales (Reg No. 13327912) having its registered address at 10 Ledbury Mews North, London, W11 2AF and approved as owner by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No. 819548).
If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please email our Professional Standards Team at [email protected].
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Website.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the ICO, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
We use cookies on our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website, allows us to improve our Website, and allows us to measure, manage and improve our digital marketing. Further details about the cookies we use can be found below.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your consent to place cookies on your device, except where they are essential for us to operate our Website or where they ensure that our Website appears and functions correctly on the screen you are using to view it (we call these necessary cookies).
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies you have provided or manage any other cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the icon found in the bottom left of our Website. You can then adjust the preference sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including necessary cookies) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Website.
If you want to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites (including our Website), visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to the guidance on cookies published by the ICO, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our use of cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Cookie type | Name | Purpose | Duration | Own/Third party | Personal data collected/processed |
| Necessary | wpEmojiSettingsSupport | This cookie is set when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user’s browser can display emojis properly. | Session | WordPress | None |
| Necessary | CookieConsent | This cookie records the cookie consent choices you have made on our Website, so that your preferences are remembered on your next visit. | Session | Cookiebot | Your cookie consent preferences. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Necessary | rc::a | This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA to help protect our Website from spam and abuse by distinguishing genuine visitors from automated bots. | Persistent | Google reCAPTCHA | None. This cookie is used for bot detection only. |
| Necessary | rc::c | This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA to verify that a form submission on our Website is made by a real person rather than automated software. | Session | Google reCAPTCHA | None. This cookie is used for bot detection only. |
| Necessary | test_cookie | This cookie is set by This cookie is set by Google’s advertising infrastructure to check whether your browser accepts cookies before any advertising cookies are used. | 1 day | DoubleClick (Google) | None. This is a technical check only. |
| Statistics | _ga | This cookie calculates visitor, session and campaign data and tracks usage for our Website’s analytics report | 2 years | Google Analytics 4 | This cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors |
| Statistics | _ga_# | This cookie is used by Google Analytics 4 to distinguish individual users and track their interactions with our Website, such as page views and events, across a browsing session. | 2 years | Google Analytics 4 | A unique identifier for your browser, along with general device and approximate location information. |
| Statistics | _clsk | This cookie stores and consolidates a user’s page views into a single session recording | Session | Microsoft Clarity | User’s pageview |
| Statistics | CLID | This cookie stores information about how visitors interact with our Website and helps to provide an analysis report | 1 year | Microsoft Clarity | Data collected includes the number of visitors, where they visit our Website, and the pages visited |
| Statistics | _clck | This cookie retains the browser’s Clarity User ID This cookie retains your browser’s Clarity User ID and settings, so that actions you take on future visits to our Website can be linked to the same user ID. | 1 year | Microsoft Clarity | User information |
| Statistics | _cltk | This cookie is used by Microsoft Clarity to store and track how you interact with our Website, such as clicks, scrolling and time spent on pages. | Session | Microsoft Clarity | User’s pageviews, bounce rates and time durations |
| Statistics | _its.# | This cookie is used by Infinity Call Tracking to assign a unique identifier to a visitor and track interactions across sessions, enabling attribution of phone calls to marketing sources | Session | Infinity | User’s session ID, referral source, campaign attribution data, and call interaction data |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_fbclid_url | This cookie stores the full URL of your most recent visit to our website when it contained a Facebook click ID (fbclid) parameter, allowing us to identify which Facebook or Instagram ad brought you to our website. | 3 months | Trethowans LLP | The URL of your visit, including the Facebook click ID linked to your Facebook or Instagram ad interaction. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_main | This cookie stores technical housekeeping data for our marketing attribution system, including when data was last synced with our server, timestamps for various tracking events, the configured cookie expiry period, and your cookie consent status. | 3 months | Trethowans LLP | None directly; stores technical and configuration data supporting the other attribution cookies. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_cookie_expiry | This is a technical cookie that stores the configured number of days our attribution cookies should last after your last visit, controlling when the other afl_wc_utm cookies expire. | Session | Trethowans LLP | None. This is a technical configuration setting only. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_sess_visit | This cookie stores the timestamp of your first landing page visit to our website, supporting our marketing attribution reporting. | Session | Trethowans LLP | The date and time of your first landing page visit. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_utm_1st_visit | This cookie stores the timestamp of your first visit to our website via a tracked marketing link containing UTM parameters, helping us understand the journey from initial ad click to enquiry. | Session | Trethowans LLP | The date and time of your first tracked marketing visit. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_utm_visit | This cookie stores the timestamp of your most recent visit to our website via a tracked marketing link containing UTM parameters, helping us measure campaign performance and the timing of enquiries relative to ad activity. | Session | Trethowans LLP | The date and time of your most recent tracked marketing visit. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_gclid_visit | This cookie stores the timestamp of your most recent visit to our website when it contained a Google Ads click ID (gclid) parameter, helping us attribute enquiries to the correct Google advertising campaign. | Session | Trethowans LLP | The date and time of a visit linked to a Google Ads click. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_fbclid_visit | This cookie stores the timestamp of your most recent visit to our website when it contained a Facebook click ID (fbclid) parameter, helping us understand when ad-driven visits occur and attribute enquiries to the correct campaign. | Session | Trethowans LLP | The date and time of a visit linked to a Facebook or Instagram ad click. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_msclkid_visit | This cookie stores the timestamp of your most recent visit to our website when it contained a Microsoft Advertising click ID (msclkid) parameter, helping us attribute enquiries to the correct Microsoft advertising campaign. | Session | Trethowans LLP | The date and time of a visit linked to a Microsoft Advertising click. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_sess_landing | This cookie stores the URL of the first page you landed on when you arrived at our website, helping us identify how visitors first reach our site. | 3 months | Trethowans LLP | The URL of your first landing page on our site. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_utm_1st_url | This cookie stores the full URL of the first page you visited on our website when arriving via a tracked marketing link containing UTM parameters. Used to identify the original source of your visit for campaign attribution purposes. | 3 months | Trethowans LLP | The URL of your first tracked marketing visit, including UTM campaign parameters. |
| Statistics | afl_wc_utm_utm_url | This cookie stores the full URL of the most recent page you visited on our website via a tracked marketing link containing UTM parameters. Used to attribute enquiries to the most recent campaign that brought you to the site. | 3 months | Trethowans LLP | The URL of your most recent tracked marketing visit, including UTM campaign parameters. |
| Marketing | _gcl_au | This cookie is placed by Google Ads to store and track conversions, helping measure how effectively adverts perform on websites that use Google’s advertising services. | Session | Google Tag Manager | Browsing behaviour |
| Marketing | sbjs_migrations | This is a technical cookie used internally by the Sourcebuster script to record which version of its own data format is in use, so that it can update the format correctly if the tool changes. It does not itself store attribution data about your visit. | Session | Sourcebuster | None. This is a technical version marker only. |
| Marketing | sbjs_current_add | This cookie stores the date, time and referring page of your most recent visit, supplementing the source data held in the sbjs_current cookie. | Session | Sourcebuster | The date, time and referring page of your most recent visit. |
| Marketing | sbjs_first_add | This cookie stores the date, time and referring page of your very first visit to our website, supplementing the source data held in the sbjs_first cookie. It is set once and never overwritten. | Session | Sourcebuster | The date, time and referring page of your first ever visit. |
| Marketing | sbjs_current | This cookie stores the source of your most recent visit to our website — for example, whether you arrived via a search engine, a referral link, a tracked campaign, or by typing our address directly — for marketing attribution purposes. | Session | Sourcebuster | Traffic source details (such as search engine, campaign name or referring site) for your most recent visit. |
| Marketing | sbjs_first | This cookie stores the source of your very first visit to our website. Unlike sbjs_current, it is set once and never overwritten on later visits, allowing us to measure the original source of a lead. | Session | Sourcebuster | Traffic source details for your first ever visit to the site. |
| Marketing | sbjs_udata | This cookie records how many times you have visited our website in total, for marketing attribution purposes. | Session | Sourcebuster | A count of your total visits to the site. |
| Marketing | sbjs_session | This cookie is used to identify This cookie records how many pages you have viewed during your current visit and which page you are currently on, for marketing attribution purposes. | Session | Sourcebuster | The number of pages viewed and the current page during this session. |
| Marketing | _gcl_ls | This cookie is used by Google Ads to measure how our advertising campaigns contribute to enquiries, tracking the relationship between ad clicks and later actions on our Website. | Persistent | Google Tag Manager | An advertising click and conversion identifier |
| Marketing | pagead/1p-user-list/# | This cookie is set by Google Ads to record whether you have previously visited our Website, allowing us to show relevant adverts to past visitors on other websites. | Session | Google Ads | An advertising identifier used for remarketing across websites |
| Marketing | #,# | This item is reported by our cookie scanner without a stable name. It comes from Google’s gstatic.com domain, which is also used by the Google reCAPTCHA and Google Ads services on this site, and is most likely part of one of those systems. We are working to confirm its exact purpose and will update this entry once confirmed. | Persistent | Behavioural and advertising-related data (exact scope under review) | |
| Marketing | ,#_expiresAt | This item stores the expiry time for the cookie above, and will be updated once that item’s purpose is confirmed. | Persistent | Technical expiry data (under review) | |
| Marketing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by embedded YouTube videos to estimate your bandwidth and store some of your preferences, and is used by YouTube to measure engagement with video content. | 180 days | YouTube | An identifier used to personalise and measure video viewing |
| Marketing | YSC | This cookie is set by embedded YouTube videos to track which videos you have watched, helping YouTube measure engagement and video performance. | Session | YouTube | A session identifier linked to video views |
| Marketing | __Secure-YEC | This cookie is set by embedded YouTube videos to help detect invalid traffic and fraudulent activity. It protects advertisers from being charged for fake ad interactions and helps ensure YouTube creators are paid correctly for genuine views. | Session | YouTube | A fraud-detection identifier. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Marketing | __Secure-YNID | This cookie is set by embedded YouTube videos to personalise adverts shown to you based on your previous visits to our Website and other sites. | 180 days | YouTube | An advertising identifier used to personalise ads |
| Marketing | __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | This cookie is set by embedded YouTube videos to manage the gradual roll-out of new YouTube player features to visitors. | 180 days | YouTube | A technical identifier. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Marketing | LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | This cookie stores technical data about your interaction with the embedded YouTube video player, used by Google to maintain player functionality. | Session | YouTube | Technical player data. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Marketing | yt-icons-last-purged | This cookie records when the icon cache for the embedded YouTube player was last cleared in your browser, ensuring the correct icons display. | Persistent | YouTube | None |
| Marketing | TESTCOOKIESENABLED | This cookie is used by the embedded YouTube player to check whether your browser accepts cookies before the video loads. | 1 day | YouTube | None. This is a technical check only. |
| Marketing | YtIdbMeta#databases | This item stores technical data about your interaction with the embedded YouTube video player, used by Google to maintain player functionality. | Persistent | YouTube | Technical player data. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Marketing | LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore | This item stores technical logs generated by the embedded YouTube video player to help diagnose and maintain player performance. | Persistent | YouTube | Technical log data. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Marketing | ServiceWorkerLogsDatabase#SWHealthLog | This item stores technical health-check logs for the embedded YouTube video player’s background service worker. | Persistent | YouTube | Technical log data. No information that identifies you personally. |
| Marketing | SM | This cookie helps keep the MUID cookie, Microsoft’s cross-domain advertising identifier, consistent across different Microsoft domains, supporting advertising measurement and targeting. | Session | Microsoft Clarity | No information stored directly; keeps the MUID advertising identifier synchronised across domains. |
| Marketing | MR | This cookie tells Microsoft whether to refresh the MUID cookie, which is used for advertising and analytics purposes across Microsoft sites. | 7 days | Bing (.clarity.com) | Indicates whether your MUID advertising identifier should be refreshed. |
| Marketing | SRM_B | This cookie is set by Microsoft Advertising to register a unique This cookie is set by Microsoft Advertising to register a unique ID for your device, used for Bing Ads remarketing so that adverts can be shown to you based on previous visits. | 1 year and 24 days | Microsoft Advertising | A unique device identifier used for advertising remarketing. |
| Marketing | MUID | This cookie recognises unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes | 1 year and 24 days | Bing (.clarity.ms) | A unique advertising and analytics identifier assigned to your browser. |
| Marketing | ANONCHK.c | This cookie stores your session ID and helps verify ad clicks made on the Bing search engine, supporting reporting and ad personalisation. | 10 minutes | Bing | User’s session ID |
Other tracking technologies in addition to cookies
Web beacons: Web beacons (also known as tracking pixels, pixel tags, web bugs and clear GIFs) are small images that may be used within webpages and emails. We may use these to place cookies on your browser and to learn more about how you interact with web content or emails, such as whether emails have been opened or links clicked.
Web server & application logs: Our servers automatically collect certain information to help us administer and protect our Website, analyse usage and improve users’ experience. The information collected includes:
- IP address and browser type
- Device information, including Unique Device Identifier (UDID), MAC address, Identifier For Advertisers (IFA), and similar identifiers we or others may assign
- Device operating system and other technical facts
- The city and country from which you access our Website
- Pages visited and content viewed, stored, and purchased
- Information or text entered
- Links and buttons clicked
- URLs visited before and after you use the features
“Do Not Track” Signals
Some browsers transmit Do Not Track (DNT) signals to websites. Due to the lack of a common interpretation of DNT signals throughout the industry, we do not currently alter, change or respond to DNT requests or signals from these browsers. We continue to monitor industry activity in this area and reassess our current DNT practices as necessary.
Third party websites
Throughout our Website we may provide links to other websites owned and operated by third parties or include social media features such as Facebook, ‘X’ (previously Twitter) and LinkedIn share buttons. These third-party websites may also use cookies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
Changes to this policy
We may change this policy from time to time, and when we do, the changed policy will be posted on our Website.