Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.  They are necessary in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Why are cookies used?
Cookies may be used for many different purposes. In the first place, cookies can be required to make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in or visited the website before. These are called required cookies.

Cookies can also be used to analyse how a website is used, e.g. to count the number of visitors, or to learn how the website may be improved. All tracking data and website usage are stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to individual website visitors. These cookies are called analytics cookies.

Thirdly, social media cookies are used to enable the integration of social media and your data with the platform in question into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page without having to reauthenticate your profile.

A fourth important use of cookies is to enable online advertising, which may be personalised to show ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. This is done by (targeted) advertising cookies.

Unless you have set your browser to block cookies completely, this website will utilise the following cookies on your computer.

Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics uses the information from these cookies to provide insight into how people are using the website, how often they visit and how they move around the site

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You have the option to refuse to accept analytics cookies each time you visit this website. This rejection only disables tracking of website use and behaviour and has no impact on the performance of any other areas of the website.

Modern web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.  To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Visibility
There are some elements of data visible  as part of your use of the website. The information we have visibility of regardless of your acceptance of analytics cookies is:

• the internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider and is not user controlled

• the type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, Linux, macOS etc) that is used

• the device used, such as a mobile phone or tablet

• the date and time of visit

• the page(s) visited

• the address of the website from which is linked to chrislewis-smith.co.uk (this is commonly described as a referrer)

This information above is only used to review website and server performance.

Links to other websites
This website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This cookie policy applies only to this website so you are encouraged to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. Responsibility cannot be taken for the privacy policies and practices or use of cookies of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you have linked to our website from a third party site, responsibility cannot be taken for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that website for more specific information on their use of cookies.