Cookies Policy
What Are Cookies
We want to make our online services easy, useful and reliable and this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, whether it’s a computer, tablet or mobile phone. These small text files are known as cookies and cannot be used to identify you personally.
We categorise these cookies based on how they may affect your privacy.
Our website uses cookies to enhance certain functionality and content for our users. This is through provision of interactive elements for your use on the site (for example, social media sharing options) and also provision of analytical data for us, to review how our site is being used and improve it where necessary.
This Cookie Policy relates to the websites for the LEP, Marketing Cheshire, Cheshire and Warrington Growth Hub, Cheshire Science Corridor Enterprise Zone, Cheshire and Warrington Opportunities and not to those reached via links from the Cheshire and Warrington site, to websites provided by others.
Do cookies allow the LEP to see what I am doing online?
We cannot obtain information about who you are from this monitoring, just our audience behaviours and trends in that data. We use cookie information to monitor traffic, for example, numbers of visitors to a web page and where they go.
Examples of where cookies are used on our website include:
- Analytics – we anonymously measure your use of this website so that we can improve your experience;
- Social media – Facebook, Twitter and other social websites need to know who you are to work properly. This is for people who click the Facebook like and share buttons or Tweet this buttons from Twitter.
How do I change my cookie settings or remove cookies?
You can alter the settings of your browser to prevent automatic acceptance. If you reject the use of cookies, please note that all functions of the website may not work properly.
If you are concerned about cookies you can change the settings on your computer to refuse them.
The website http://aboutcookies.org offers comprehensive information as to how you can control cookies.
Cookies used
Details about the cookies we use are set out in the table below.
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Cookie |
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Login related cookies |
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in. |
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Email newsletters related cookies |
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. |
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Surveys related cookies |
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages. |
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Forms related cookies |
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. |
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Site preferences cookies |
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences. |
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This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ. |
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Social Media |
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. |