Cookie Policy
Information about our use of Cookies.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. [By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.]
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. They are used to identify the user or device and to collect information. Cookies are typically assigned to one of four categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: absolutely necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and cookies for marketing purposes. Cookies are typically assigned to one of four categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: absolutely necessary cookies, performance cookies, functional cookies, and cookies for marketing purposes.
The ICO defines cookies under 3 groups:
- Necessary cookies
These are essential to enable you to move around our website and to allow the features of our website to work correctly. Without these, services you request – such as opening our live chat function – cannot be provided.
- Performance cookies
These enable us to collect information about how you use our website or read our publications, for instance which pages are viewed by visitors most frequently. All information collected in this way is used to improve how our websites work or the effectiveness of the materials that we publish.
- Functionality cookies
These cookies record information about choices you have made and allow us to remember your preferences. If you are known to us and we hold your details, we may use this information to help us build up your profile based on your web journey, and choices. For example, if you access our website from a link in an email we sent to you, these cookies will allow us to track your web journey.
Cookies ‘expire’ – delete themselves from your browser – after a certain amount of time, the options are:
- Session – these cookies last as long as the user is on your website.
- X number of days/months/years – after a certain number of days/months/years the cookie will expire (unless the visitor clears their cache before then).
- Indefinite – these cookies will last until the user clears their cookies
What cookies we use.
We use third party cookies from Lead Liaison, Google Adwords and Google Analytics to collect data about user behaviour.
Our remarketing strategies may place banner ads on subsequent websites you visit. Clicking on these ads will direct you back to our website group.
Our online advertising campaigns are hosted by third party vendors, including Google and Lead Liaison, who use cookies to base advertisements on information about you and your browsing behaviour, including your previous visits to our website(s).
| Cookie | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | ICO Definition |
| vuid | Allows embedded Vimeo videos to work | Vimeo | 2 Years | Functionality |
| PHPSESSID | Analytics & tracking | Lead Liaison | Session | Functionality |
| II_IP | Analytics & tracking | Lead Liaison | 1 year | Functionality |
| IIuniqck | Analytics & tracking | Lead Liaison | 1 year | Functionality |
| _ga | Anonymised Analytics Tracking | Google Analytics | 2 years | Performance |
| _gdc_gtm | Anonymised Analytics Tracking | Google Analytics | 1 Day | Performance |
| _gid | Anonymised Analytics Tracking | Google Analytics | 2 Days | Performance |
| wistia-top-domain-getter | arcadiaonline.co.uk | Session | Unclassified | |
| _cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic | reviews.co.uk | 1 year | Necessary |
| ASP.NET_Session ID | Enables us to store and retrieve values for a user as the user navigates the site | arcadiaonline.co.uk | Session | Functionality |
| mailmunch_second_pageview | Used to manage the subscription service to mailing lists of blogs (Mailmunch) | blog.arcadiaonline.co.uk | 1 Year | Unclassified |
[Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies]
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.