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Cookie Policy

This Cookie Declaration Policy explains what cookies are, how Millbank Dental Care ("we," "us," or "our") uses them on our website https://dentistsw1.co.uk (the "Site"), and your choices regarding their use.

  • 1.

    What Are Cookies?

    A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

    Cookies can be:

    • Session cookies: These are temporary and are deleted from your device when you close your web browser.
    • Persistent cookies: These remain on your device for a set period or until you manually delete them. They are used to recognise you as a returning visitor.

  • 2.

    How We Use Cookies

    We use cookies for several purposes. They help us provide a better user experience, understand how our Site is being used, and deliver relevant content and advertising. We classify our cookies into the following categories:

    • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site or using a shopping cart. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they do not require your consent.

    • Performance (or Analytics) Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Site, such as which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. This data is aggregated and anonymous, and we use it solely to improve how our website works.

    • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

    • Targeting (or Advertising) Cookies: These cookies are used to track your browsing habits and activity. They are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with our permission.

3. Cookie Declaration

Below is a detailed list of the cookies we use on our Site. Our website is scanned with a cookie scanning tool regularly to maintain a list that is as accurate as possible.

CookieDescriptionExpiry
Cookie: _ga
Description: Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website and app owners to understand how their visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the ‘_ga’ cookie.
Expiry: Session
Cookie: _gid
Description: This cookie is part of Google Analytics and it's used to group the user behavior together for each user. Structure of its value is very similar to _ga cookie. It expires after 24 hours of inactivity. _The gid cookie is responsible for tracking user behavior.
Expiry: Session
Cookie: __utmb
Description: The __utmb and __utmc cookies are brothers, working together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes, and then it expires. You see, __utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to hap...
Expiry: Session
Cookie: __utmc
Description: The __utmb and __utmc cookies are brothers, working together to calculate how long a visit takes. __utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site, while __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. __utmb expires at the end of the session. __utmc waits 30 minutes, and then it expires. You see, __utmc has no way of knowing when a user closes their browser or leaves a website, so it waits 30 minutes for another pageview to hap...
Expiry: Session
Cookie: __utmz
Description: __utmz keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. It expires in 15,768,000 seconds – or, in 6 months. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. __utmz also lets you edit its length with a simple customization to the Google Analytics Tracki...
Expiry: Session
Cookie: __utm.gif
Description: When you visit a website with Google Analytics a .gif picture of 1×1 pixel is stored on your web server. Data regarding this visit will be attached to this gif file and sent to Google Analytics. It has a session duration and expires 30 minutes after the last interaction with the website.
Expiry: Session
Cookie: rur
Description: This cookie is used by the Instagram API to display posts. Instagram will not store personally-identifiable cookie information unless you click through onto the the original posting.
Expiry: Session
Cookie: urlgen
Description: This cookie is used by the Instagram API to display posts. Instagram will not store personally-identifiable cookie information unless you click through onto the the original posting.
Expiry: Session
Cookie: Conversion
Description: The main purpose of this cookie is to help advertisers determine how many times people who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site (e.g., making a purchase). This cookie allows Google and the advertiser to determine that you clicked the ad and later visited the advertiser’s site.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: SID
Description: Google uses cookies like SID to help customize ads on Google properties, like Google Search. For example, we use such cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps us to show you customized ads on Google.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: googletagmanager.com
Description: Google Tag Manager is a free tool that allows you manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on your website (or mobile app) without having to modify the code.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: googletagservices.com
Description: Google Tag Services is a free tool that allows you manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on your website (or mobile app) without having to modify the code.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: googleusercontent.com
Description: Usually used in all Google Cloud services. It is used to host contents created by users that is under Google but not necessary by Google.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: google-analytics.com
Description: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand. Google Analytics lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: gstatic.com
Description: Gstatic is a service used by Google to hold static content and reduce bandwidth usage. Gstatic.com is a reliable domain used by Google LLC to increase network speed for users. Gstatic is not a virus, and a domain utilized by Google to host various static content, such as images, CSS, or JavaScript.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: youtube.com
Description: YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: instagram.com
Description: Instagram is an entirely visual platform. Unlike Facebook, which relies on both text and pictures, or Twitter, which relies on text alone, Instagram's sole purpose is to enable users to share images or videos with their audience.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: youtube.com
Description: YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.
Expiry: 1 year
Cookie: atumSidebarState
Description:

Technical cookie used for the Joomla template
Expiry: Session
Cookie: _gid
Description: ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
Expiry: 24 hours

  • 4.

    Third-Party Cookies

    In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Site, deliver advertisements, and so on. These third parties include:

    • Google Analytics
    • Facebook Pixel
    • Instagram

    These third parties have their own privacy and cookie policies, and we do not have control over the cookies they set. We encourage you to review their policies.

  • 5.

    Your Choices and How to Manage Cookies

    When you first visit our Site, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject different categories of cookies.

    You can also control and manage cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to:

    • See what cookies you have and delete them on an individual basis.
    • Block third-party cookies.
    • Block cookies from particular sites.
    • Block all cookies from being set.
    • Delete all cookies when you close your browser.

    Here are links to manage settings in popular browsers:

    Please be aware that if you block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site, and some features may not function correctly.

  • 6.

    Changes to This Cookie Policy

    We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top.

  • 7. Contact Us

    If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us at: