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Cookie Policy

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

WHO WE ARE

This website is operated by Gordons LLP of 1 New Augustus Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 5LL.

OUR WEBSITE

This cookie policy relates to your use of our website, www.gordonsllp.com.

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate polices. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device, interact with you and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users and interact with them. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

CONSENT TO USE COOKIES AND CHANGING SETTINGS

We will ask for your permission to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential or ‘strictly necessary’ for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (see below).

You can consent to all cookies by clicking the ‘Accept’ button on the dashboard or you can individually select the cookie categories you want to give us consent to place on your device by clicking the ‘Settings’ button, navigating through each tab and moving the slider from left to right (it will change in colour from grey to blue) and then clicking ‘Confirm My Choices’. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.

OUR USE OF COOKIES

The table below provides information about the cookies we use and why:

CATEGORY	COOKIE NAME	PROVIDER	PURPOSE
Performance	_cf_bm	cookiepro.com	This Cloudflare cookie helps to manage incoming traffic, matches criteria associated with bots, and helps to prevent automated unauthorised scripts. The cookie is set for 30 minutes.
Performance	_ga	gordonsllp.com	Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: Google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analysed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.
Performance	_lscache_vary	gordonsllp.com	This cookie is set to improve the speed and performance of the website, and to prevent cached pages.
Functional	bcookie	linkedin.com	This cookie enables LinkedIn functionality on the website.
Functional	li_gc	linkedin.com	This cookie is used to store the consent of visitors regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
Functional	lidc	linkedin.com	This cookie is used to provide load balancing functionality, enabling the routing of traffic to the correct data centre.
Strictly Necessary	OptanonConsent	gordonsllp.com	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.