Cookie Policy
This website uses cookies to collect information about how you use our site to help enhance user experience and also to help us to improve our business and the services we provide. The cookies we use allow our website to function and help us to understand what parts of our site is most useful to visitors. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with this policy. If you’re not sure about any part of it policy, please contact us.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Like most websites, we use cookies, and similar technologies, which are files that contain small amounts of information. These files are downloaded to any internet enabled device (such as your computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies are useful from a user and business perspective because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to remember your actions and preferences (such as jobs you may be interested in) and generally improving your experience.
CONTROL OF COOKIES
When you first enter our website you will see a cookie banner where you can express your cookie preferences. You will see an option to accept or reject the cookies within the banner. By accepting the cookie banner, or by browsing our website after you have been presented with the banner, you agree to us placing cookies on your device in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Most internet browsers are initially set up to automatically accept cookies. You have the option to change your preferences at any time through your browser. You can also withdraw your consent to cookies by deleting the cookies that have already been stored. How you do this depends on which browser you use. The most popular browsers are set out below:
| Browser | Cookie setting navigation |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Edge | Select ‘menu’ ‘Settings’ ‘Cookies and site permissions’ ‘Manage and delete cookies and site data’ |
| Chrome | Select ‘menu’ ‘Settings’ ‘Privacy and security’ ‘Cookies and other site data’ |
| Safari | ‘Settings’ ‘Privacy’ ‘Manage website data’ |
| Firefox | ‘Setting’ ‘Privacy and security’ ‘Enhanced Tracking Protection’ ‘Custom’ |
If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience on our our website.
WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
The table below explains the cookies we use and the purpose of each.
Cookie
__cf_bm
Duration
30 minutes
Description
This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management.
Cookie
player
Duration
1 year
Description
Vimeo uses this cookie to save the user’s preferences when playing embedded videos from Vimeo.
Cookie
aka_debug
Duration
session
Description
Vimeo sets this cookie which is essential for the website to play video functionality.
Cookie
_ga
Duration
2 years
Description
The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
Cookie
_gid
Duration
1 day
Description
Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
Cookie
vuid
Duration
2 years
Description
Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website.
Cookie
_gat
Duration
1 minute
Description
This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Cookie
sync_active
Duration
never
Description
This cookie is set by Vimeo and contains data on the visitor’s video-content preferences, so that the website remembers parameters such as preferred volume or video quality.
The duration of our cookies is dependent on whether it is a session cookie or a persistent cookie:
Session cookies – these cookies are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our website
Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on your device for a longer period until you either manually delete them or it reaches the lifetime of the specific cookie. Please see ‘Control of Cookies’ section for details on how to manually delete cookies.
Policy updates
We update this policy from time to time for changes to our use of cookies. Any changes will be posted here or signposted from our website.
Contact Information
If you have any queries in relation to this policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at:
Source Design Services (Head office)
Maple Lodge Close
Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Herts.
WD3 9SN.
