Cookies are governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003; the collection of personal data from the cookie is governed by the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and the Data Protection Act 2018. 

In order to place a cookie on your device, we are required to obtain your consent to do so. This consent is subject to the General Data Protection Regulations 2018. This means that for consent to store cookies on your device you are required to ‘opt-in’. As you entered this website you were asked to consent to the use of cookies for non-necessary cookies. We do not require your consent to store cookies on your device which are necessary to the functioning of this website.  

Cookies which you have not consented to will not be stored on your device unless they are strictly necessary to the functioning of our website.  

We will record evidence of consent internally, for audit purposes.  

What are Cookies?  

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They are used for a wide variety of purposes such as website analytics – counting visitors and their behaviour, targeted advertising, recording user preferences or for authentication. 

Cookies used by us 

As our website uses non-necessary cookies we are required to obtain your consent. When entering the website you were asked to provide consent to the storing of cookies via a ‘pop-up’ and to provide opt-in consent. The following is the list of non-necessary cookies which our firm uses in order to provide our service to you: 

Cookie Name	Brief Description of the Cookie
Session Cookie	This type of cookies expires once the user’s session on a website expires.

 

If you wish to withdraw consent for the use of cookies at any time, please contact us on the contact details found within our Privacy Policy. The reason for this is that we cannot remove the cookie from your device, however, we can stop the processing of personal data which we have gathered from the cookie. 

In order to remove the cookie from your device you are required to do so by using one of the following methods: 

 

 

Google Chrome 

Press ‘CTRL’ and ‘H’ at the same time. At the left hand of the screen click ‘Clear browsing data’, then click ‘cookies and other site data’, select a time frame for deletion and click ‘clear data’  

Internet Explorer 

Press ‘CTRL’ and ‘Shift’ and ‘Delete’ at the same time. A pop-up will appear, click ‘Cookies and website data’, then click delete.