Cookie Policy.

This page explains what this website stores on your device, what it does not store, and how to change your mind. It describes how the site is built rather than giving you legal advice.

There is no date on this page. We review it whenever the website changes.

We ask before anything runs

A banner appears the first time you open the site and asks whether analytics may run. Nothing analytics related loads until you accept.

If you decline, or carry on reading without answering, no analytics cookies are set and nothing about your visit is sent to Google.

How your answer is remembered

Your answer is kept in your own browser, under the name "sb-consent", in the part of the browser called local storage. That is not a cookie. It stays on your device, and it is not sent to us or to anyone else when you ask for a page.

It stays there until you change it, or until you clear this website's stored data in your browser, after which the banner asks you again.

If you accept analytics

Accepting loads Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-40CNVT18GC, which then sets its own cookies on your device. They are named "_ga" and "_ga_" followed by that measurement ID.

We use what it reports to count visits and to see which pages people use, so we know which parts of the site are worth keeping and which need work. It does not tell us who you are.

Google's own documentation says these cookies last up to two years.

Changing your mind

Use the "Cookie choices" link in the footer at the bottom of any page. It brings the banner back, so you can accept or decline again.

You can also clear the cookies yourself. Every browser keeps this in its settings, usually under privacy, where you can clear the stored data for one website or block cookies altogether. The help pages for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge each describe the steps for that browser.

What this site does not use

This site does not use:

• Advertising cookies
• Tracking cookies that follow you to other websites
• Social media pixels
• Cookies used to work out who you are

Analytics is the only thing on this site that sets a cookie, and only once you have accepted it.

Fonts and scripts

The fonts and the code this site needs are served from our own server rather than from another company's network. Loading a page therefore does not hand your IP address to a third party.

Enquiry forms and the quote chat

The enquiry forms and the quote chat send what you type to this website's own server. They do not set cookies.

What happens to the details you send is covered in our privacy policy.

Links to other companies

Some links take you off this site: WhatsApp, Google, Facebook, Yell and Checkatrade. Once you follow one you are on that company's own website, under its cookie policy rather than ours, and we have no say in what it stores on your device.

Do Not Track

Some browsers can send a Do Not Track signal. There is no agreed standard for what a website should do when it receives one, so this site does not respond to it.

The banner, and the "Cookie choices" link in the footer, are how you tell us what you want.

Questions about this cookie policy? Call 01256 805 164 or email simon@simonbirchplumbing.co.uk.