Our Cookies Policy

WHO ARE WE?
1. Dudman Shaw Limited is a Limited Company incorporated in England and Wales and is a Controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. This Policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?
3. Cookies are small text files, containing data about your general internet usage, which are stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Cookies interact with your computer and our website by remembering the registration details and preferences from previous visits. Typically, a cookie will contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come, the lifetime of the cookie and a value. The use of cookies does not give us access to the rest of your computer and only the site that created the cookie can read it.

WHAT DATA IS COLLECTED AND WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
4. The Cookies collect essential technical information: identification of the page or service you are requesting, type of browser and operating system you are using; and the date and time of access.

5. It also collects nonessential technical information to include: the Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our web site, and the "cookie information" described below.

6. Some of the cookies that we use are strictly necessary for the intended operation of our website. Otherwise, and where you consent to us doing so, we use cookies for a variety of purposes, including (but not limited to):
• Allowing you to carry information across pages of our website and so avoid having to re-enter information;
• Within registration to allow you to access stored information;
• Monitoring the general usage of our website;
• Determining how frequently particular pages are visited and by whom; and
• Understanding who has seen which pages.

7. By continuing to use this site you consent to the relevant cookies being set on your device.

HOW TO CONTROL AND DELETE COOKIES
8. This website will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this website you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

9. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

10. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this website.

11. This website uses services provided by other companies (e.g. Google, Facebook) who also set cookies on this website on our behalf in order to deliver the services that they are providing.

12. If you would like more information about the cookies used by these suppliers, as well as information on how to opt-out, please continue reading.

13. We only share the information obtained through the use of Google Analytics with Google. For more information on Google’s use of your information, please visit the Google Privacy and Data Sharing pages. The cookies we use for these purposes do not track your Internet usage after leaving our website and we do not store your personal information. They will also not be used in connection with any other information to identify you in any way. To prevent Google Analytics cookies being set, you may wish to install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

We only have cookies relating to Google Analytics. See:
Google Analytics__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz – This cookie allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site 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. For further information, please visit: http://www.google.com/analytics/

14. We sometimes use photos and video content from websites such as YouTube and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from these sites you may be presented with cookies from these websites. This website does not control the dissemination of these cookies.

15. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF COOKIES
16. Session or Transient cookies - cookies that are stored in the computer's memory only during a user's browsing session and are automatically deleted from the user's computer when the browser is closed.

These cookies usually store a session ID that is not personally identifiable to users, allowing the user to move from page to page without having to log in repeatedly. They are widely used by commercial websites for example, to keep track of items that a consumer has added to a shopping basket.

Session cookies are never written on the hard drive and they do not collect any information from the user's computer. Session cookies expire at the end of the user's browser session and can also become no longer accessible after the session has been inactive for a specified length of time, usually 20 minutes.

17. Persistent, Permanent, or Stored cookies - cookies that are stored on the user's computer and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Permanent cookies can retain user preferences for a particular website, allowing those preferences to be used in future browsing sessions.

Permanent cookies can be used to identify individual users, so they may be used by websites to analyse users' surfing behaviour within the website. These cookies can also be used to provide information about numbers of visitors, the average time spent on a particular page and generally the performance of the website. They are usually configured to keep track of users for a prolonged period, in some cases many years into the future.

18. Analytical cookies - Our website uses Google Analytics cookies (third party cookie) for the following purposes: a cookie to record the time of your first visit to website, the time of your most recent visit to the website and the time of your current visit; a cookie to record how long you stayed on the website; a cookie to record how you located our website (i.e., Google search, keyword, link from other page etc).

19. Third party cookies - We sometimes allow partners or service providers to use cookies on our websites. These cookies are used to help us understand how a specific promotion or campaign is performing.

SHARING TOOLS
20. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that this website now carries embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular social networks.
Examples of Social networks that provide sharing services are:
• Facebook
• Google
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
Sharing may be facilitated by the use of 3rd party services provided by other companies, for example, ShareThis (http://www.sharethis.com/) or AddThis (http://www.addthis.com).

These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. This website does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.