This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, The Pawfect Retreat Limited, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://www.thepawfectretreat.co.uk/ (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 5 June 2018.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.

For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

Contents

1. About cookies
2. List of cookies used
3. Non-essential cookies
4. How to accept or reject cookies
5. Copyright, credit and logo
6. About cookiesWhat are cookies?
   Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.Essential and non-essential cookies
   Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
   Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
   • used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
   • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).Session and persistent cookies

   Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
   Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
   Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

   First and third party cookies

   Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.
   First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
   Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
   If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

7. List of cookies used
   We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

   Name of Cookie	Essential or Non-essential?	Type of cookie	First or Third party?	Session or Persistent?	Expiry Time	Purpose
   _gat	Non-essential	Functional	First party	Session	End of browser session.	Used by Google to throttle the request rate.
   _ga	Non-essential	Analytical	First party	Persistent	2 years	To distinguish website visitors.
   _gid	Non-essential	Analytical	First party	Session	End of browser session	Generates statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.

8. Non-essential cookiesWe use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
   • Functional cookies
   • Analytical (or performance) cookies
   • Targeting (or advertising) cookiesFunctional cookiesThese are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

   • a first party session cookie used by Google to throttle the request rate. This cookie is called _gat.

   How to opt in or out from functional cookies
   See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

   Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies
   Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and ensuring our website analytics work correctly and as efficiently as possible.

   Analytical (or performance) cookies

   Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:
   • Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are: _ga which is a persistent cookie and expires after 2 years, _gali which is a session cookie and _gid which is a session cookie. We also use the Google Analytics cookie _gat, which is explained in more detail in the ‘functional cookies’ section above.

   More information
   Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
   For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

   How to opt in or out from analytical cookies
   See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
   To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

   Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies
   Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.

   Targeting (or advertising) cookies

   • Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes. We use the targeting cookies for the following purposes on our website:

   How to opt in or out from advertising cookies
   See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

   Processing information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies
   Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
   Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). 
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using advertising cookies by accepting the use of such cookies via our cookie control tool.

9. How to accept or reject cookiesThere are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.
   You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
   You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
   You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.orgAccepting or rejecting cookiesCookie control tool
   You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie control tool.

   Browser settings
   You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
   • Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
   • Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
   • Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
   • Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US
   Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

   Existing cookies
   To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

   Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
   You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

10. CopyrightThe copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.