Cookie Policy

How we use Cookies

In order to improve the website, we may use small files commonly known as “cookies”. A cookie is a small amount of data which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (your “device”) from the website and is stored on your device’s browser or hard drive.

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 our clients’ needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, 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.

You can find more information about how to do manage cookies for all the commonly used internet browsers by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. This website will also explain how you can delete cookies which are already stored on your device.

What cookies are used on this website?

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are necessary for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that remember if you have consented to other (non-strictly necessary) cookies. We are not required to get your consent to the use of Strictly Necessary Cookies.

Statistical cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website 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.

The cookies we use on the website won’t collect personally identifiable information about you and we won’t disclose information stored in cookies that we place on your device to third parties.

The cookies we use are:

We use “Google Analytics” on the website. This cookie provides us with a visitor count and an understanding of how visitors move around and use the website. We can then use this information to improve navigability and the website generally. The cookies we use on the website won’t collect personally identifiable information about you and we won’t disclose information stored in cookies that we place on your device to third parties.

We are obliged by Google Analytics to state the following:

The website use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For more information about how Google handles data collected through Google Analytics, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy: [Link to Google's Privacy Policy]

Other technologies we use in email marketing

We also use tracking pixels (clear gifs) in direct marketing emails that we send to you. These pixels track whether our email was delivered and opened, the links within the email were clicked and which pages of our website you have visited. They also allow us to collect information such as your IP address, browser, email client type and other similar details. We use this information to measure the performance of our email campaigns, and for analytics.

You can always turn off images in respect of the emails we send to you or opt-out of our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails, or you can contact us using details set out below.

Consent to use cookies

We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where these are strictly necessary for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. There is a banner notice on our website which refers to the different types of cookies we use and requests your consent to each before we place any non-essential cookies on your device.

Updates to 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.

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

Contacting us

If you have any queries, comments, or requests regarding this Cookie Policy, you can contact us at dataprotection@landmarkchambers.co.uk.