Cookies

Cookies are small data files saved to your computer (or any other device capable of browsing the internet) as part of your interactions with a website.

Cookies remain stored on your device until such a time that the cookie expires or is manually deleted. This allows for the information stored within the cookie to be sent back as part of any subsequent interactions you have with the issuing website. This exchange of information enables websites to remember basic information about you, such as whether you have visited the site before, whether you are “logged in” or to remember your recent searches.

When you visit our website, we will place a secure cookie in your browser history, which will allow us to record your interactions with our website and the device, browser and IP address that you are using. 

If you do decide to make an enquiry, we will link the data information recorded from the website cookie to your personal information used in your enquiry. You can delete the cookie from your browser at any time.

We also use HTML web storage to store information locally, such as search results and development locations, to improve our website performance. This can also be deleted by you from your browser at any time.

HTML web storage provides two forms of storage:

Local Storage – stores data with no expiration date

Session Storage – stores data for a single session (data removed when the browser tab is closed)

If you do not want us to use cookies when you visit our website, you can adjust your internet browser settings not to accept cookies. Your web browser’s help function should tell you how to do this. Alternatively, you can find information about how to do this for all the commonly used internet browsers here: www.aboutcookies.org 

This website will also explain how you can delete cookies that are already stored on your device.

Please be aware that if you set your computer to not accept cookies, there may be certain features/areas on our website that you may not be able to use.

To opt out of any marketing cookies or to change your preferences, please click on the cog at the bottom left of your screen.

Necessary

Necessary Cookies are necessary for our website to work for you. They must always be enabled for the website to work, therefore we do not provide an option to opt out of them. If you switch these cookies off in your browser settings then you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. They include, for example, cookies that [support log in forms and ensure the display of certain information.]

Civic UK

Cookie Domain Description Retention
CookieControl .simplelifehomes.co.uk

This cookie is used to remember the user’s cookie consent preferences.

3 months

Cloudflare

Cookie Domain Description Retention
__cf_bm .w3.org

Cloudflare’s bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions.

session
__cf_bm .vimeo.com

Cloudflare’s bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions.

session
_cfuvid .vimeo.com

The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address.

session
_cfuvid .embed.ly

The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address.

session

Google

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_ga_devsite developers.google.com

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

2 Years

Functional

Functional Cookies are useful to improve your user experience when accessing our website. These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience, for example they recognise you when you return to the website. They may also be used to provide services you have asked us for, such as watching a video.

Google

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_GRECAPTCHA www.google.com

Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis.

179 days
receive-cookie-deprecation .adnxs.com

This cookie ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header as soon as it becomes available.

180 days
test_cookie .doubleclick.net

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies.

1 year
YSC .youtube.com

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Session

Microsoft

Cookie Domain Description Retention
SRM_B .c.bing.com

Collected user data is specifically adapted to the user or device. The usercan also be followed outside of the loaded website, creating a picture of the visitor’s behavior.

1 year

Cloudflare

Cookie Domain Description Retention
__cf_bm .w3.org

Cloudflare’s bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions.

session
__cf_bm .vimeo.com

Cloudflare’s bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions.

session
_cfuvid .vimeo.com

The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address.

session
_cfuvid .embed.ly

The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address.

session

Hotjar

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_hjSession_1701947 .simplelifehomes.co.uk

A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.

30 minutes
_hjSessionUser_1701947 .simplelifehomes.co.uk

Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

365 days

PHP.net

Cookie Domain Description Retention
PHPSESSID www.simplelifehomes.co.uk

Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.

Sessions

Analytics

Analytics Cookies help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone.

Google

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_ga .simplelifehomes.co.uk

ID used to identify users

2 years
_ga_NLEM7871FZ .simplelifehomes.co.uk

ID used to identify users

2 years

Microsoft

Cookie Domain Description Retention
SM .c.clarity.ms

This is a Microsoft cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics

session
CLID www.clarity.ms

The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft Clarity scripts. The purpose of this cookie is for heatmap and session recording.

1 year

Marketing

Marketing Cookies collect information about your browsing habits; they record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They are used to deliver adverts which are more relevant to you and your interests, to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of our campaigns. Advertising cookies are placed by third parties to deliver you with adverts about our products and services on the third party’s website or application in line with your browsing and shopping experiences on our website.

Google

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_gcl_au .simplelifehomes.co.uk

Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

3 months
IDE .doubleclick.net

This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite

2 years
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com

Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing

179 days
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA .youtube.com

Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie

180 days

Adobe

Cookie Domain Description Retention
demdex .demdex.net

Unique value with which Audience Manager can identify a user. Used, among others, for identification, segmentation, modeling and reporting purposes.

180 days after last activity or 10 years when opting out
dpm .dpm.demdex.net

DPM is an abbreviation for Data Provider Match. It tells internal, Adobe systems that a call from Audience Manager or the Adobe Experience Cloud ID Service is passing in customer data for synchronization or requesting an ID.

180 days

Adform

Cookie Domain Description Retention
SRM_B .c.bing.com

Unique value that records info about consecutive ads – includes: total impressions, daily impressions, total clicks, daily clicks, and last impression date

1 day

Facebook

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_fbp .simplelifehomes.co.uk

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

4 months

Microsoft

Cookie Domain Description Retention
MR .c.bing.com

Used to collect information for analytics purposes.

6 months
MR .c.clarity.ms

Used to collect information for analytics purposes.

6 months
MUID .bing.com

Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.

1 year
MUID .clarity.ms

Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.

1 year
ANONCHK .c.clarity.ms

Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation

10 minutes

Xandr

Cookie Domain Description Retention
anj .adnxs.com

The anj cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with our partners. ID syncing enables our partners to use their data from outside the Platform on the Platform.

90 days
uuid2 .adnxs.com

This cookie contains a unique randomly-generated value that enables the Platform to distinguish browsers and devices.

90 days
XANDR_PANID .adnxs.com

This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance.

400 days

Quantcast

Cookie Domain Description Retention
mc .quantserve.com

Tracking of users and measure and improve performance and supports personalisation

13 months
d .quantserve.com

Tracking of users and measure and improve performance and supports personalisation

13 months

TikTok

Cookie Domain Description Retention
_tt_enable_cookie .simplelifehomes.co.uk

Tracking cookie used by TikTok to identify a visitor

389 days
_ttp .tiktok.com

Tracking cookie used by TikTok to identify a visitor

389 days
_ttp .simplelifehomes.co.uk

Tracking cookie used by TikTok to identify a visitor

389 days