A cookie is a text file that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. It will generally contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, a unique “ID” and information about the cookie’s “lifetime”.
To give you the best possible experience, Walker Crips Group (WCG) uses cookies on this website. By continuing to use our website you are giving your consent to cookies being used.
WCG uses Google Analytics to gather information which helps us improve web services for our visitors by collecting information on how our website is being used. The cookie is linked to WCG’s website domain(s) and date will only be used for statistical analysis relating to your browsing behaviour on our website, such as the number of visitors to our website, the number of pages viewed during a visit and the duration visitors spend on particular pages.
Collecting and analysing these metrics will aid us when making future enhancements to our website to provide you with a better service. Cookies used on our website will not store any personal or confidential information about you, and we will make no attempt to identify individual visitors using their IP address (unless we are obliged to do so by law or regulation).
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all website visits see: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
The anonymous data collected is analysed only at an aggregate level in order to track overall visitor activity on our website and make improvements to it. We do not review the information at an individual level, and we do not use cookies to track visitors after leaving our website. That means that we can gauge how many visitors have accessed a particular page on our website, but we do not know who they are. If you do not wish for your activity on our website to be used in this way, you can either set your browser to disable cookies or to alert you when a website is attempting to add a cookie and decline when prompted. See ‘How to disable cookies’ below.
WCG uses session cookies and persistent cookies on this website. Session cookies only last for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies last beyond your website session and will last either until their expiry date or when you manually remove them. The table below details the cookies currently employed on this website, which are all related to our use of Google Analytics.
Cookie Name
Description
Type
Essential
Cookie Name
_utma
Description
This cookie tracks the number of times a visitor has visited the website relating to the cookie, as well as information about when their first visit and last visits. All data is anonymous.
Type
Persistent
Essential
No
Cookie Name
__utmb
Description
The _utmb cookie and the_utmc listed below work in conjunction with each other to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp at the point a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc expires 30 minutes later. This delayed expiry is due to the cookies not being able to recognise when a visitor closes their browser or, alternatively, leaves a website to browse elsewhere. The cookie waits for 30 minutes for any further sign of activity and, if there isn't any, it expires.
Type
Session
Essential
No
Cookie Name
__utmc
Description
The _utmc cookie and the_utmb listed above work in conjunction with each other to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp at the point a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc expires 30 minutes later. This delayed expiry is due to the cookies not being able to recognise when a visitor closes their browser or, alternatively, leaves a website to browse elsewhere. The cookie waits for 30 minutes for any further sign of activity and, if there isn't any, it expires.
Type
Session plus 30 minutes
Essential
No
Cookie Name
__utmz
Description
The __utmz cookie allows WCG to identify where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link the visitor clicked on, what keyword was used, and from where in the world our website was accessed. It expires in 15,768,000 seconds (6 months). This cookie is how Google Analytics identifies to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a “Goal Conversion" (i.e. when a visitor completes a specific action such as downloading an application form, accessing a particular page or signing up for a newsletter).
Type
Expiring
Essential
No
This Cookie Policy only sets out our use of cookies in relation to this website. Please remember that other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. This website contains links to third-party websites. WCG does not control the setting of cookies for these websites and you are advised to check their cookie policies for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
The browsers of most internet-enabled devices are usually set up to accept cookies from websites by default. You are able to configure your browser to allow, reject or notify you when a cookie is set up. As each browser is different, we are not able to offer specific advice on how to change your preferences however we recommend that you check the "Help" menu of your browser where you will most likely find more information on how to change your cookie preferences.
For more information on cookies you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org.
