What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. It enables our website to identify your computer as you view different pages on our website.
Cookies allow websites and applications to store your preferences in order to present content, options or functions that are specific to you. They also enable us to see information like how many people use the website and what pages they tend to visit.
Currently across our website we make use of cookies to help manage our website, make our website easier to use and support the provision of relevant information and functionality to you to improve your visitor experience, as well as provide us with information about how our website is used so that we can make sure it is as up-to-date, relevant and as error free as we can.
Cookies set across our website (whether set by our 3rd party partners or us), can be in the form of session cookies (lasting only as long as your visit to our website) or persistent cookies, and may use different technologies, such as JavaScript or Flash.
You can choose to manage the cookies we use on our website through your internet browser settings at any time. For more information about how to do this, and about cookies in general, you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Certain cookies may be set as soon as you visit our website, but you can remove them using your internet browser settings.
We may use cookies to:
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Google’s own privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website experience, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
How we use cookies
- Analyse our web traffic using an analytics package. Aggregated usage data helps us improve the website structure, design, content and functions.
- Identify whether you are signed in to our website. A cookie allows us to check whether you are signed in to the site.
- Test content on our website. For example, 50% of our users might see one piece of content, the other 50% a different piece of content.
- Store information about your preferences. The website can then present you with information you will find more relevant and interesting.
- To recognise when you return to our website. We may show your relevant content, or provide functionality you used previously.
- Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us.
- Certain features of Our Site depend on Cookies to function. Cookie Law deems these Cookies to be “strictly necessary”. Your consent will not be sought to place these Cookies, but it is still important that you are aware of them. You may still block these Cookies by changing your internet browser’s settings, but please be aware that our website may not work properly if you do so. We have taken great care to ensure that your privacy is not at risk by allowing them.
- The following first, third party and analytics Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
| Name of Cookie | Purpose | Type |
| __cf_bm
| This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Third Party Essential |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. | Third Party Essential |
| _gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. | Non-essential Analytics |
| _ga_WC0V2HDGH9 | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | Non-essential Analytics |
| _lscache_vary | This cookie is used to optimize the serving of cached pages to users based on their custom preferences or browsing behavior. It helps enhance website performance and load times. | Non-essential Performance |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. | Non-essential Analytics |
| _lfa | Leadfeeder cookie collects the behavioral data of all website visitors. This includes; pages viewed, visitor source and time spent on the site | Non-essential Targeting |
| _gat_gtag_UA_126624878_1 | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). | Non-essential Analytics |
| _cfuvid | This cookie is used for purposes of tracking users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services. | Non-essential Functionality |
Controlling cookies
You can use your web browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies. Visit https://cookies.insites.com/disable-cookies for help on how to do this.
Please note that preventing cookies will impact on the functionality or performance of our website and will prevent you from using certain services provided through it. If you choose to do so, we cannot guarantee access to the services provided through our website or be sure how our website will perform during your visit. Doing so will also affect our ability to update our website to cater for user preferences and improve its performance.
Unless you have changed your browser to refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit it.
Links from our site
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Please note that we have no control of websites outside the www.dawesaccountants.co.uk domain.
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