What are cookies?

Websites you visit use cookies to improve your user experience. These cookies last either for the duration of your visit or for repeat visits and allow functions on a site to work in a more flexible, user-friendly way. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier.

Web sites may also use cookies to target their content specifically for you by using your location, for example. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing.

What is in a cookie?

A cookie is a text file stored in your browser and only the server that the web site is hosted on will be able to see the contents of that cookie. Cookie files contain some anonymous information, the site name and some text.

What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set

Although cookies are generally quite harmless, you may not want Your web browser to store them. If you prefer, it is possible to block or delete them entirely. To do this, you will need to use your browser’s preferences, and more information can be in your browser’s help files.

Which cookies do we use?

We use the following cookies on our web site:

ndbrown.co.uk

Google Analytics

Google Analytics cookies are set by the tracking code ga.js and are used to provide us with data to analyse the effectiveness of our site.

We use Google Analytics to analyse what our visitors like and what they don’t like. We then use this to manage our ongoing content strategy.

__utma – Used by Google Analytics – Expires at the end of the current browsing session

__utmb – Used by Google Analytics – Expires at the end of the current browsing session

__utmc – Used by Google Analytics – Expires at the end of the current browsing session

__utmz – Used by Google Analytics – Expires at the end of the current browsing session

Google Maps

What is this Cookie used for?

These cookies are used by Google to ascertain how many users are using their mapping service. They expire after a period between six months and two years.

Cookie Names:

PREF
NID

Google +1

What is this Cookie used for?

The Google+1 button is a way for you to share information publicly, as part of your Google Profile. Clicking it will be recorded by Google, along with the information about the page you are viewing. This helps you and others receive customised content from Google and its partners.

Cookie Names:

APISID
HSID