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Cookie Policy

Last Updated: 28/06/2020

This Cookie Policy explains how Harris Burns Ltd ("Company", "we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website at https://www.harrisburns.com, ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information. 

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Harris Burns Ltd) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

2. Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Property. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

3. How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in your web browser controls. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below:

4. Performance and functionality cookies

This cookie is used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but is non-essential to its use. However, without this cookie, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

Name: __cfduid
Purpose: Used by Cloudflare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address, and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This is a HTTP type cookie that expires after 1 year.
Provider: .prooffactor.com
Service: CloudFlare (View Service Privacy Policy)
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 30 days

5. Analytics and customisation cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise our Website for you.

Name: _ga
Purpose: It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years.
Provider: .squarespace.com
Service: Google Analytics (View Service Privacy Policy)
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 11 months 29 days

Name: _gid
Purpose: Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session.
Provider: .squarespace.com
Service: Google Analytics (View Service Privacy Policy)
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 day

Name: _gat#
Purpose: Enables Google Analytics to regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session.
Provider: .squarespace.com
Service: Google Analytics (View Service Privacy Policy)
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 minute

6. Advertising cookies

This cookie is used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

Name: _gcl_au
Purpose: Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
Provider: .videoask.com
Service: AdSense (View Service Privacy Policy)
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 2 months 29 days

7. Unclassified cookies

These are cookies that have not yet been categorized. We are in the process of classifying these cookies with the help of their providers.

Name: __stripe_sid
Provider: .www.videoask.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 30 minutes

Name: ss_cvt
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 30 minutes

Name: ss_cid
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 11 months 29 days

Name: ss_cvr
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 11 months 29 days

Name: ss_cpvisit
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 11 months 29 days

Name: pf_vid
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: html_local_storage
Expires in: persistent

Name: ajs_anonymous_id
Provider: .videoask.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 11 months 30 days

Name: ss_cvisit
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 30 minutes

Name: m
Provider: m.stripe.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 11 months 29 days

Name: crumb
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: session

Name: __stripe_mid
Provider: .www.videoask.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 11 months 30 days

Name: crumb
Provider: www.ghostplugins.dev
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: session

Name: Locked
Provider: .smi.squarespace.com
Country: United States
Type: server_cookie
Expires in: session

Name: test
Provider: harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: html_local_storage
Expires in: persistent

Name: amplitude_idundefinedvideoask.com
Provider: .videoask.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: session

Name: pf_vid
Provider: .harrisburns.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 1 year 11 months 29 days

Name: amplitude_id_375670b1b1a80d7cfe78d2451d81ce4cvideoask.com
Provider: .videoask.com
Country: United States
Type: http_cookie
Expires in: 9 years 11 months 28 days

8. What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Website or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

9. Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

Websites may also use so-called "Flash Cookies" (also known as Local Shared Objects or "LSOs") to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention and for other site operations.

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in you web browsers settings.

Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

10. Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

11. How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time-to-time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

12. Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at website@harrisburns.com or by post to:

Harris Burns Ltd
The Wyke Farmhouse
The Wyke
Shifnal
Shropshire
TF11 9PP
United Kingdom