Cookies
Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files of information automatically downloaded by your computer or mobile phone when you visit our site. We use cookies to help us improve our website.
BEFORE WE START…
What is a cookie
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.
How does Bourlet Consulting use cookies?
Bourlet Consulting’s websites will work without cookies, but you will lose some features and functionality if you choose to disable cookies. We use cookies to enhance the functionality of the website. We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our websites to provide you with a better user experience.
We don’t sell the information collected by cookies, nor do we disclose the information to third parties, except where required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).
How we use cookies
Our site uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do things better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you’re on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We don’t collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
| Name | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | A randomly generated number | 2 years |
| _utmb | A randomly generated number | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | A randomly generated number | When you close your browser |
| _utmx | A randomly generated number | 2 years |
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
Cookies which help us improve the site
Some cookies help us to see how people are using our sites. These are known as ‘analytics cookies’ or ‘tracking cookies’. They let us know what areas of website content are popular and how people are using the site. This information is anonymous – we don’t collect anything that would identify a user. We use this data to build up a picture of how the site is performing and to inform us where improvements could be made.
We use services such as Google Analytics to help us to analyse how users use the sites. It counts the number of visitors and tells us things about their behaviour overall, such as the typical length of stay on the site or the average number of pages a user views. To enrich our content, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Flickr, these sites may set a cookie.
Bourlet Consulting’s website also carries embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular social networks, for example, Facebook, Twitter or Google+. These sites may set a cookie. Bourlet Consulting does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
How to manage cookies
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device
then you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function in your
browser should tell you how. Alternatively, visit aboutcookies.org, which contains
comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop
browsers. This website will work without cookies, but you will lose some features and
functionality if you choose to disable cookies.
Storing your preferences
Our site may, in the future, allow us to provide you with options to improve your visit – remembering information you put into a form, for example. Currently the site sets a master cookie which identifies you from page to page to enable these features to happen. However, currently no data is stored or used by this cookie.
| Name | Typical content | expires |
|---|---|---|
| Has_js | randomly generated number | When you close your browser |
How can you manage your cookies?
Browser settings: Most browsers can be altered to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, although this may mean that some of the features of this site (and other sites) won’t work properly and it might restrict your user experience.
These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.
Turn off anonymous Google Analytics cookies: You can install a Google Analytics browser “plug in” to prevent the website sending information about your visit to Google Analytics. You’ll find more information about this below.
Other useful links
If you’d like to find out more about cookies and their wider use, you might find the following links of interest:
The IAB has provided the following website to give information specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising:
For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful: