Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy sets out how The Original Cottage Company uses cookies when you access The Original Cottage Company website or one of the locally branded websites.
The Original Cottage Company may change its policy from time to time as required and keep it up-to-date by amending this document. You should check this document periodically to ensure that you are aware of any recent changes.
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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file received and stored by your browser. Information in the cookie makes it possible for a website to recognise a visit by a specific browser installation and thus to send individualised information to this installation. A cookie can contain text, numbers, dates etc. but it does not hold any personal information. A cookie is not a program and it cannot contain a virus.
Cookies used on this website
We make a distinction between cookies sent by our website, (first party cookies) and those sent by the website of one of our partners, e.g. Google Analytics (third party cookies). In most browsers it is possible to define settings that independently control the acceptance of each type of cookie on the computer.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, or complete online payments securely.
- Analytics and Performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our sites work, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
- Targeting and Advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our sites, the pages you have visited on our sites and others, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the advertising displayed to you more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
We may share the information we collect from cookies with our third party advertisers and analytics teams i.e. Google, Facebook and Bing, where it may be combined with other information you've given to our website, or any of the brands within the Original Cottages Family.
A full listing of the cookies in use is available in the tables below.
What is the lifetime of a cookie?
A cookie’s lifetime varies depending on the purpose for which it has been created. Some cookies disappear as soon as the browser is shut down (temporary or session cookies) while others can live on for several months (permanent cookies). You can view the lifetimes of the cookies we set in the tables below.
Permanent cookies with a specified lifetime will have a new expiration date set each time the site to which the cookie is related is revisited.
If you would like a full listing of the cookies in use plus their duration, please see the tables below.
How do I avoid cookies?
You can adjust your Cookies Settings at any time when using our website by opening the Cookie Control widget found in the bottom-left corner of the screen, or selecting here to open Cookie Control settings. Your Cookies Settings are per-website, so you may need to repeat this on some or all of the Original Cottages Family websites.
Alternatively, you can select a browser and set it to block some or all cookies, delete existing cookies from your computer’s hard disk drive or in some cases issue a warning before any new cookie is downloaded. Please consult your chosen web browser’s Help function for instructions on how to do this.
You can always force immediate deletion of the cookies on your computer either during, or at the end of, a browser session. Please consult your chosen web browser’s Help function for instructions on how to do this.
For further detailed information you may wish to visit https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ which contains comprehensive sources of information on cookies and how to control them using a wide variety of browsers.
Full details of cookies on Original Cottages websites
The below tables detail all the potential cookies that can be used on the family of Original Cottages websites. Not all of these will be in use on each individual website, nor each individual session. For example, some cookies from our external advertising partners will only be set if you come to our website through one of their online adverts.
Necessary cookies
| Provider | Cookies | Context | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civic Cookie Control | CookieControl | First-party | This is a cookie set by Civic Cookie Control that stores the cookie preferences on your system. | 1 year |
| Zendesk | __zlcmid | First-party | This is a cookie set by Zendesk that facilitates the help widget and livechat function. | 1 year |
| Drupal | has_js | First-party | This is a cookie set by Drupal which identifies browser capabilities. | Session |
| sf_redirect | First-party | This is a cookie set by Drupal which controls website redirects in certain conditions. | Session | |
| Original Cottages | __rv | First-party | This is a cookie set by us that collects information about recently viewed properties on your system. | 1 year |
| __tw | First-party | This is a cookie set by us that collects information about wishlisted properties on your system. | 1 year | |
| actorid | First-party | This is a cookie set by us that defines a numeric identifier for our customer account authentication. | 1 year | |
| actortype | First-party | This is a cookie set by us that categorises a user for our customer account authentication. | 1 year | |
| customerid | First-party | This is a cookie set by us that defines a numeric identifier for our customer account records. | 1 year | |
| SESS* | First-party | This is a prefix of cookies set by us that controls the website session. | 23 days, or upon logging out of your customer account | |
| SagePay | JSESSIONID | Third-party | This is a cookie set by SagePay that facilitates the secure payment function. | Session |
| NCS_WJQ-mjwf.* | Third-party | This is a prefix of cookies set by SagePay that facilitates the secure payment function. | Session |
* denotes a wildcard of a randomly generated alphanumeric string.
Analytics and Performance cookies
| Provider | Cookies | Context | Purpose | Lifetime | Opt-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | First-party | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 2 years | Open Cookie Control settings |
| _gid | First-party | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 24 hours | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gat | First-party | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 1 minute | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _dc_gtm_UA-* | First-party | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | Session | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gac_UA-* | First-party | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 90 days | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gat_UA-* | First-party | This is a prefix of cookies set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 1 minute | Open Cookie Control settings | |
| _gali | First-party | This is a cookie set by Google Analytics that facilitates the Google Analytics service. | 30 seconds | Open Cookie Control settings |
* denotes a wildcard of a randomly generated alphanumeric string.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies
| Provider | Cookies | Context | Purpose | Lifetime | Opt-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bing Ads |
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First-party | These are cookies set by Bing Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Bing advertising network. For information about how Bing will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Microsoft's Privacy & Terms. |
1 day 16 days 90 days |
Open Cookie Control settings |
| Bing Ads |
MUID MUIDB |
Third-party | These are cookies set by Bing Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Bing advertising network. For information about how Bing will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Microsoft's Privacy & Terms. |
2 years 2 years |
https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/policies/opt-out-of-the-microsoft-advertising-optimization-program |
| Google Ads |
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Third-party | These are cookies set by Google Ads to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Google advertising network. For information about how Google will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Google's Privacy & Terms. |
20 years, 1 month 30 days 1 year 2 years |
https://adssettings.google.co.uk/ |
| DoubleClick (Google Ads) |
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Third-party | These are cookies set by DoubleClick to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Google advertising network. For information about how Google will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Google's Privacy & Terms. |
2 years 2 years 2 years 180 days 180 days 360 days 390 days 180 days 1 day 180 days |
https://adssettings.google.co.uk/ |
| AdSense (Google Ads) |
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First-party | These are cookies set by AdSense to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Google advertising network. For information about how Google will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Google's Privacy & Terms. |
90 days 90 days |
Open Cookie Control settings |
| Facebook Ads | _fbp | First-party | These are cookies set by Facebook Advertising to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Facebook advertising network. For information about how Facebook will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Facebook's Privacy & Terms. | 90 days | Open Cookie Control settings |
| Facebook Ads |
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Third-party | These are cookies set by Facebook Advertising to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Facebook advertising network. For information about how Facebook will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Facebook's Privacy & Terms. |
2 years 90 days 2 years |
https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
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Third-party | These are cookies set by LinkedIn to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the LinkedIn network. |
2 years 1 day 30 days 2 years Session 1 year |
https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out | |
| atdmt.com (Facebook) |
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Third-party | These are cookies set by atdmt.com to facilitate advertising and remarketing through the Facebook advertising network. For information about how Facebook will use your personal data if you consent to these cookies, see Facebook's Privacy & Terms. |
90 days 2 years |
https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
Comments and Feedback
Please email any questions, concerns, or comments you have about our Cookies Policy to DPO@originalcottages.co.uk
