Cookies policy
Effective Date: September 2024
Introduction
We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a positive user experience on our website. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on our website www.thakeham.com, and your options for managing them.
For more information about how and why we use cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@thakeham.com
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or other electronic devices) when you visit a website. Cookies help websites recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
Why we use cookies
We use cookies for a number of reasons, including:
- To enhance your browsing experience
- To provide you with services you have requested
- To understand how you use our site and interact with our pages
- To deliver relevant advertisements and recommendations to you
Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following types of cookies on our site:
Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the operation of our website. They enable you to navigate the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, certain services you have asked for cannot be provided.
| Cookie | Purpose / summary | Duration | Creator |
| CookieControl | This cookie is used to provide you with control over which cookies you accept or reject. | 90 days | Civic Cookies |
| Ar_debug | This cookie is used by Google Ad Services to debug ads. | 1 year | |
| PHPSESSID | The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie. | End of session | PHP |
| _cf_bm | This cookie is used to distinguish between you and bots. This is beneficial for the website, to make valid reports on the use of the website from a security perspective. | 30 mins | Cloudflare |
| Li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | 6 months | |
| lidc | To facilitate data center selection | 24 hours |
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users get error messages from web pages. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
| Cookie | Purpose / summary | Duration | Creator |
| ANONCHK | Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn’t use ANID and so this is always set to 0. | 10 minutes | Microsoft |
| MR | This cookie is used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronise the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking. | 7 days | Microsoft |
| SM | This cookie is used by Microsoft’s Clarity analytics service to synchronise the MUID across Microsoft domains. | End of session | Microsoft |
| SRM_B | This cookie identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year, 24 days | Microsoft |
| _clck | Assigns a unique ID that can be used to link screen recordings from multiple sessions. | 1 year | Microsoft Clarity |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 1 day | Microsoft Clarity |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. | 1 year | Microsoft Clarity |
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. | 1 year | Microsoft Clarity |
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These cookies are used to distinguish one visitor from another and last for 14 months.
They collect aggregated information such as page visits, button clicks and device information. |
2 years | |
| Receive-cookie-depreciation | Cookie deprecation refers to phasing out the use of third-party cookies in Chrome browsers by 2024. | ~ | |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform and diagnostic purposes | 1 year |
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests.
| Cookie | Purpose / summary | Duration | Creator |
| test_cookie | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net (part of Google). The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users’ browser supports cookies.
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15 minutes | Cookies |
| Thakeham-Id-scr | This is a cookie to record if the user has accessed the website before. It was originally in place to trigger a loading screen, which is functionality that has been disabled. The cookie is still in place if this functionality is switched back on. | 1 year | Thakeham |
| _gcl_au | This cookie is set by Google Analytics to take information in advert clicks and store it in a 1st party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside of the landing page. | 90 days | |
| _fbp | This cookie tracks visits across websites. Facebook uses this data to show you better, more relevant advertising. | 3 months | Meta |
| Muc_ads | This cookie is for advertising | 2 years | X / Twitter |
| personalization_id | This cookie is set by Twitter and allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. | 2 years | X / Twitter |
Resetting your cookie preferences
You can change your cookie settings at any time using the cookie button at the bottom left of the page.
