1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and assist with personalization.
Cookies set by us are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than us are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content, and analytics).
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons:
- Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate. We refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies.
- Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website.
- Third parties serve cookies through our Website for analytics, advertising, and other purposes.
3. The Cookies We Use
The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as accessing secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Website functions.
- Purpose: Page navigation, security, and storing your cookie preferences.
- Duration: Mostly session-based (expires when you close your browser).
Analytics & Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
- Purpose: Gathering information about visitor counts, bounce rates, traffic sources, and popular pages (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Consent: We only set these cookies if you opt-in via our cookie consent banner.
Marketing & Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
- Purpose: Tracking visitors across websites to allow us to deliver targeted ads on platforms like Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
- Consent: We only set these cookies if you opt-in via our cookie consent banner.
4. How Can I Control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences through browser controls or our cookie consent settings.
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:
- Email: info@yourdigitalhub.co.uk
- Phone: 01902 288 159
- Address: Your Digital Hub Limited, 3rd/4th Floor, 84 Salop Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0SR