West Psychological Services - Cookie Policy
Hello there!
Thank you for checking out our cookie policy. We are committed to ensure our website and the use of cookies complies with applicable UK laws on privacy and data protection. This policy sets out the types of cookies we use, the exact cookies used on our website, whether we are using any third-party cookies, how you can control our use of cookies, what their expiry dates are and how you can get in contact with us for more information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files of information, usually containing letters and numbers, that websites store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. You must, however, agree to these cookies being stored for them to be stored on your device.
Our website needs to use these cookies so we can understand what works well with our website and what we can do to improve. These cookies also allow us to distinguish you from other website visitors, helping us to provide you with a seamless experience on our site.
What type of cookies do we use?
We use the following cookie types:
Essential Cookies – These can also be known as Strictly Necessary Cookies and they’re very important for us to make sure our website runs as it should. As a result, these cookies are always automatically enabled, to make sure our website works sufficiently. Some examples of uses of essential cookies include the distribution of website traffic across multiple servers – without the website speed being affected.
Analytical Cookies – These can also be known as Performance Cookies and they gather information about how website visitors use a website. These cookies help us to keep count of the number of visitors on our website and also helps us to understand how these visitors use our website. This enables us to understand what works well on our website and what doesn’t work so well, so we can continuously improve the site for visitors.
Functionality Cookies – These make your experience on our website easier by remembering user preferences and simplifying interactions. Some examples of what these cookies enable include remembering your language preferences and font sizes.
Advertising Cookies – These can also be known as Targeting Cookies. These cookies track your visits to our website, including the pages you visit and any links you have followed from said pages. This information is then used to display adverts to you, based on what we have learned about your preferences from these cookies.
To provide you with the best, tailored browsing experience, we may share this information with third parties, so they can display adverts based on what we know you like.
What exact cookies do we use on our website?
We’ve provided a detailed breakdown below of all the cookies we use on our website and why we use them.
| Name of Third-Party Cookie |
Third-Party Provider |
Why are they used? |
|---|---|---|
| ‘_GRECAPTCHA’ via the domain www.google.com – Essential Cookie |
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This cookie is used by Google reCAPTCHA to distinguish between human visitors to our site and bots. This helps to prevent spam and abuse, and is necessary for website security. This cookie has a duration of 6 months. |
| ‘NID’ via the domain google.com – Functional Cookie |
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This cookie stores user preferences for Google services so it can personalise ads based on what you like. This cookie has a duration of 6 months. |
| ‘__Secure-3PAPISID’ via the domain google.com – Advertising Cookie |
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This cookie delivers targeted advertising based on your preferences whilst also enhancing security on our site. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| ‘__Secure-3PSID’ via the domain google.com – Advertising Cookie |
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Similarly to the above, this cookie helps with security measures and ad personalisation. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| ‘__Secure-3PSIDCC’ via the domain google.com – Advertising Cookie |
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This cookie again assists us with ad personalisation and security measures. This cookie has a duration of 1 year. |
| ‘__Secure-3PSIDTS’ via the domain google.com – Advertising Cookie |
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As above, this cookie also works to provide personalised ads and to keep our site secure. This cookie has a duration of 1 year. |
Do we use any Third-Party Cookies?
Third party cookies are not set by us but are set by other domains than the website you visit. These cookies are placed on website visitors’ devices by third-party outlets. Common examples of these third parties can include social media platforms, analytical providers and advertising networks.
We have no control over the cookies third parties use. We work with the following third parties who may use the following cookies:
| Name and Type of Cookie |
Why do we use this? |
|---|---|
| ‘SS_MID’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Essential Cookie |
This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor and maintain secure, consistent sessions across the website. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| ‘crumb’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Essential Cookie |
This cookie is used to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and protect form submissions, such as our ‘Contact Us’ form. This cookie has a duration of the browsing session. |
| ‘SS_CID’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Essential Cookie |
This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor for security and fraud prevention. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor for security and fraud prevention. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
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| ‘ss_cookieAllowed’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Essential Cookie |
This cookie is used to remember the visitor’s cookie consent preferences. This cookie has a duration of approximately one month. |
| ‘ss_marketingCookiesAllowed’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Essential Cookie |
This cookie is used to store whether the visitor has consented to our marketing cookies. This cookie has a duration of approximately one month. |
| ‘ss_performanceCookiesAllowed’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Essential Cookie |
This cookie is used to store whether the visitor has consented to performance/analytics cookies. In this case, this will be whether a visitor consents or does not consent to all cookies. This cookie has a duration of approximately 30 days to 1 year. |
| ‘SS_MATTR’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to track how visitors use our website for analytics and behavioural insights. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| ‘SS_lastvisit’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to record the time of a visitor’s last visit for analytics and reporting. This cookie has a duration of 1 year. |
| ‘ss_cpvisit’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to recognise repeat visits and analyse returning visitor behaviour. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| This cookie is used to recognise repeat visits and analyse returning visitor behaviour. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
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| ‘ss_cvisit’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to identify and measure an individual browsing session. This cookie lasts for the duration of the browsing session. |
| ‘ss_cvr’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to track the number of times a visitor has returned to the website. This cookie has a duration of 2 years. |
| ‘ss_cvt’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to measure how long a visitor spends on the website during a session. This cookie lasts for two hours. |
| ‘user_segment’ via the domain ‘www.westpsychologicalservices.co.uk’ – Analytical Cookie |
This cookie is used to categorise visitors into behavioural segments to support site performance analysis. This cookie duration varies by session (typically session-based or short-term). |
How can I control these cookies?
You are able to control your use of cookies on our website. You can do the following:
Accepting all cookies;
Declining all cookies; or
Selecting ‘Cookie Preferences’ in the bottom left hand corner of our website, which allows you to select which performance, analytical and advertising cookies you’d like to apply.
You can select “Decline” in our cookie banner. But if you do so, this also blocks essential cookies, which means you may not be able to access all parts of our website, and our website may not work to the best of its ability for you. This also rejects third-party cookies.
You can also deactivate third-party cookies with your chosen browser. These steps vary slightly depending on your browser choice, but more often than not can be located on the Settings page.
Google Analytics also provide the option for you to opt out of being tracked by them across all websites you visit. To do so, we recommend visiting http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
What is the Expiry Period for your cookies?
Not including our use of essential cookies, all cookies expire after two years, or as specified in the tables above.
How do I ask you for more information?
If you’d like to learn more about our use of cookies or if you have any questions, please get in touch with us on the following details:
● Email: westpsychservices@protonmail.com
● Phone: 07754 186061
We will ensure we get back to you as soon as we can.