Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
General
In this Cookies Statement and Privacy Policy Statement, “We”, “Us” and “Our” mean SH Construction (NW) Ltd. Our address is c/o Meiring & Co Unit 1 Strands Barn Strands Farm Lane, Hornby, Lancaster, England, LA2 8JF. When we refer to Our website, we are referring to any website in the domain https://sh-nw.co.uk/.
Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are one of the building blocks of most websites for enhancing the user experience of the website visitor. These small text files on users’ computers allow websites to store information.
Cookies can allow websites to remember that a user is logged in and the current ‘state’ of a webpage. They are also used to produce targeted advertising based on users’ behaviour and assist statistics packages such as Google Analytics.
Our use of cookies
We may use cookies to deliver a better and more personalised interaction/user experience. They enable Us to recognise you when you return to Our website by storing information about your preferences.
They enable Us to generate statistics about the number of visitors We have and how they use Our websites and the internet – this allows Us to constantly improve Our website and services.
For more information about how We use cookies please see the Definition of Cookies and their function section below.
Managing cookies
You can set your browser to reject Our cookies if you wish, but this might restrict your use of Our and other websites. For instructions on deleting or controlling cookies please consult your browser help section or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Definition of cookies and their function
- Session Cookies
These are temporary cookie files, which are erased when you close your browser. They are used to store your browsing information while you are using Our websites and will be active until you leave the website and close your browser.
- Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies help Us remember your information and settings for any future visits. This results in faster and more convenient access. On your first visit, the website is presented in default mode. During your visit, you select your preferences and these preferences are remembered, through the use of the persistent cookie, for the next time you visit the website. A persistent cookie enables a website to remember you on subsequent visits, speeding up or enhancing your experience of services or functions offered.
iii. CMS specific – session cookies
These types of cookies are placed by content management software (CMS) to remember whether your browser has JavaScript enabled.
- CMS specific – persistent cookies
These types of cookies are placed by content management software (CMS) to remember your display preferences.
- Google Analytics (3rd party) cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use Our websites. We use the information to compile reports and to help improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
An overview of privacy at Google can be found here http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
- Google Ads
Google Ad Manager uses a cookie to be able to manage the frequency you see each advert.
vii. JavaScript code that sets cookies
JavaScript code can also be used to set cookies. These uses of cookies can be conditional, e.g. only activated when the user clicks on a particular page item or performs a particular action, or they can be set as soon as a page is visited.
viii. Third party cookies
To improve your experience of using Our website, We sometimes embed content or functionality from third party websites. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these. Examples of such third party cookies are:
YouTube: Clicking on an embedded YouTube video may set a cookie on your computer, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Twitter: We may use Twitter functionality to allow you to easily tweet links to our content. Navigating to pages with this functionality may embed a cookie on your computer. The Twitter privacy policy can be found at https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
Cookies in use
Our website is built using WordPress
wordpress_settings | Set by WordPress to identify a specific user and customise their view of the admin interface and main site interface |
wordpress_logged_in | Set by WordPress – a cookie for a logged in user. It expires when user exits the browser |
wordpress_test_cookie | Set by WordPress – this session cookie allows us to authenticate logged in administrator users and maintains a manifest of website settings for use across the site. The system will drop a cookie to test the browser being used is able to use cookies |
wp-settings-time | Set by WordPress to identify a specific user and customise their view of the admin interface and main site interface |
We have Google Analytics installed on Our website
_gat | Cookies set by Google Analytics and is used to throttle requests and has an expiration of 1-minute |
_ga | Cookie set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 2-years |
_gid | Cookie set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 24-hours |
_gac_<property-id> | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out |
Share This Widget – gives visitors to Our website the option to share the content to social media
__uset | Set by the Share This widget – Determines whether a cookie has been set – expires 4hrs |
__stid | Set by the Share This widget – Tracking for statistics – expires 1 year |
