Cookie Policy

Ponsford Cookie Notice

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we may store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Our website uses cookies and other similar technologies (referred to together as “cookies” in this policy) 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 website.

We use the following cookies:

  • Essential cookies – these cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of the website. For example, cookies that help ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively.

  • Functionality cookies – these cookies are important for the website to operate, although not strictly necessary. For example, a cookie that remembers a user’s customised language settings.

  • Analytics cookies – these cookies analyse or predict an individual’s preferences or behaviour. For example, by monitoring a user’s movements around the website.

  • Marketing cookies – these cookies track and profile users for direct marketing and advertising. For example, a cookie that tracks someone from our website across to a social media website and shows adverts on that user’s social media page relating to our website.  

 

Cookies can be first party (set by the website that the user is visiting) or third party (set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting). They can also be session (last for the duration of a session on the website) or persistent (continue once that session has ended).

For more information about how to change your cookie preferences, please see below.

First Party Cookies

The table below explains the first party cookies we use and why.

Name and Type

Purpose

Cookie Duration

_orig_referrer

Shopify sets this cookie to be used in connection with shopping cart.

14 days

_landing_page

Shopify installs this cookie to track landing pages.

14 days

_y

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

1 year

_s

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

30 minutes

_shopify_y

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

1 year

_shopify_s

This cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.

30 minutes

_shopify_sa_t

This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals.

30 minutes

_shopify_sa_p

This is a Shopify analytics cookie relating to marketing and referrals.

30 minutes

 

Third Party Cookies

Some of the cookies we use are set by third parties. We work with other companies, such as search engine providers, so that we can learn more about our customers, in order to understand performance and engagement, provide a personalised experience and deliver more relevant advertising. The table below further explains the third party cookies that are used on our website and their purposes. 

To learn more about how these third parties process personal information, to the extent relevant, follow the links in the table below to the third party privacy notice.

Third Party

Purpose

Cookie Duration

Link to third party privacy notice

JSESSIONID

The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application.

session

localization

Flickr sets this cookie to to track usage of photo galleries embedded from Flickr.

1 year

optimizelyEndUserId

Optimizely uses this cookie to store a visitor's unique identifier which is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. Different variations of web parts are shown to users that optimizes the website's user experience.

10 years

TawkConnectionTime

Tawk.to, a live chat functionality, sets this cookie. For improved service, this cookie helps remember users so that previous chats can be linked together.

session

src

The domain of this cookie is owned by POWr.Inc. This cookie is used by POWr Social Feed.

1 month

_ga

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.

2 years

_gid

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.

1 day

_gcl_au

Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.

3 months

_gat_UA-135216839-2

A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.

1 minute

ahoy_visit

This cookie is set by Powr for analytics measurement.

12 hours

ahoy_visitor

This cookie is set by Powr for analytics measurement.

2 years

_gat

This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.

1 minute

__kla_id

Cookie set to track when someone clicks through a Klaviyo email to a website.

2 years

unique_id

This cookie is set by Powr.io to preserve user states across page requests.

session

personalization_id

Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting.

2 years

test_cookie

The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.

15 minutes

POWR_PRODUCTION

This cookie is set by the provider Powr. The cookie is used for pop-up advertisement content on the website. The cookie is set up by the POWr Social Feed.

session

IDE

Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile.

1 year 24 days

muc_ads

2 years

twk_idm_key

session

optimizelyDomainTestCookie

10 years

_secure_session_id

1 day

__cflb

This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing.

7 days

ahoy_unique_17429897

12 hours

cookietest

session

 

Cookie Preferences

You can control which types of cookie are set by changing your preferences through our cookie banner when you first visit our website or at any time by clicking here[INSERT HYPERLINK TO COOKIE PREFERENCE CENTRE].

Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. You can 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 website and you will not receive a personalised service.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please use the following links:

Contact us

Questions, comments and requests regarding this policy should be addressed to sales@ponsford.co.uk or by writing to us at 577-609 London Road, Sheffield S2 4HS.