Cookie Policy

This website cookie policy was updated last on: 27 May 2022

Information about our use of cookies

Our website www.trethowans.com (our Website) uses cookies and other similar technologies. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive which is then used to identify the user or device and to collect information. Cookies are intended to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier.

We use the following cookies:

Analytics cookies

They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to target advertising to a user (behavioural targeting). They are often served by third party companies and track a user across our Website.

Essential cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, the service we use to record your choice of accepting or declining cookies on our Website.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

CookieTypePurpose
_gaAnalyticsThis cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with our Website. It expires after 2 years.
_gidAnalyticsThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for our Website’s analytics report. The cookie stores information and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. It expires after 24 hours.
_gidAnalyticsThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for our Website’s analytics report. The cookie stores information and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. It expires after 1 minute.
_gcl_auMarketingThis cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across our Website. It expires after 3 months.
ads/ga-audiencesMarketingThis session based cookie is used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors to our Website that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
PHPSESSID
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EssentialWe use various session based cookies for the operation of our Website (e.g. to manage user sessions and to record your choice of accepting or declining cookies on our Website), to protect the security of our Website, to prevent fraud and to improve user experience (e.g. to enable us to keep track of your movement from page to page so you don’t get asked for the same information you have already given to our Website).

Please note that third parties (including, for example providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytics cookies or marketing cookies.

Sharing to social networks

Some of the pages on our Website include social media features, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn “Share” buttons. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties. You should review the privacy statements or policies applicable to the third-party services you connect to, use or access. If you do not want your personal information shared with social media account providers, please do not connect a social media account and do not participate in social sharing features.

Controlling and managing cookies

There are various ways in which you can control and manage cookies.

On our Website you can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the circular 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.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

If you opt out of cookies and then delete all cookies, your opt out will not be saved and you will need to opt out again as this will then store an essential cookie so that your device will remember that you have opted out.

The settings you change will only apply to the device on which you change them and will not apply across all your devices. If you want to opt out of cookies on all your devices, you will need to change the settings on all of your devices individually.

Please note that if you block cookies this will impact on how our Website functions and in some cases (in particular with regard to essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.

Other tracking technologies in addition to cookies

We use certain other tracking technologies in addition to cookies:

Web beacons: Our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (also called single-pixel gifs and transparent graphic images) that we use to help deliver cookies on our Website, count users who have visited those web pages, deliver the features, and analyse the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, for example. We may also include web beacons in our marketing email messages or newsletters to determine whether an email is opened or if links are clicked. Web beacons are also used to deliver you interest-based advertising.

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:

“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.

Our privacy notice

For information on how we use your personal data (including personal data collected via cookies), please see our privacy notice.