Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy sets out the basis on which we Samantha Lindup Reeve Psychotherapy use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://samanthalindupreevepsychotherapy.co.uk. This Cookies Policy came into effect on 22nd May 2018.

We only employ cookies to deliver a smooth experience to our website visitors and to understand how visitors use our websites. We do this because we want you to have a great experience browsing our website, so we can provide you with relevant content and so that we can continually improve the service we provide you.

This means that we DON’T identify you personally as a user of our website, and we DON’T use cookies to target you with advertising.

You can decide whether to accept or reject cookies from us – it’s your choice.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on your computer, mobile device or tablet. They’re used to remember what you have done on a website to improve your browsing experience, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Different types of cookies

There are four categories of cookies:

Session Cookies: these track your actions and expire once you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies: these track your actions and do not expire once your browser has closed and can track your actions over multiple sites.

First Party Cookies: cookies from the site you have visited.

Third Party Cookies: cookies from 3rd party sites come through sites you’ve visited but not from the owner of the site, such as adverts.

A first party cookie from this website is a cookie that is given to your device by our domain. A first party cookie differs from a session cookie in that the cookie itself stores a file on your computer or device rather than in your browser. By storing the cookie outside the browser, the cookie can retain data after the browser has closed and that can be used when you next visit our site. 

How to accept or reject cookies

There are several different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. You are welcome to block the use of some or all the cookies we use on our website. (Please note some of the functionality of our website will be lost if you delete all cookies.)

You can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to only allow “trusted” sites to set them, or to accept only those cookies from those websites which you are using at that moment.

All the ‘popular’ browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser.

The following links can help, please click on the link associated with the browser you are using.:

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

We recommend visiting www.aboutcookies.org. for more information about cookies and how to manage them.

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.

Our Technology Partners

Google

We use performance type cookies such as Google Analytics to better understand how visitors use our site, for example, which pages are viewed, how long customers spend visiting a page and how often they return to visit our site. This information assists us in understanding which of our pages are performing well and which pages require improvement.

Adobe Typekit

On occasion we use Adobe Typekit to improve website typography. Adobe use cookies within Typekit to track usage statistics. For more information, visit Adobe’s Cookie Policy.

Get Clicky

Get Clicky is used for collecting anonymous website usage statistics. The information that is collected includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/entry/visited/exit pages, to analyse trends, administer the site, and track user’s movement around the site. Get Clicky sets the “_jsuid” cookie. More information can be found in the Get Clicky Privacy terms.

WordPress

WordPress provide the platform for the content of this website. WordPress uses cookies, or tiny pieces of information stored on your computer, to verify who you are. There are cookies for logged in users and for commenters.

Facebook Connect and Social Plugins

Social plugins, like the Like button, the Share button and comments, are tools that let you share your experiences on other websites with your friends on Facebook and other social media platforms.

List of cookies used

Name Essential or Non-Essential First or Third party Session or Persistent Expiry Purpose
wp-settings-1 essential first session 1 year The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users’ database table.

This is used to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

Wp-settings-time-1 essential first session 1 year The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table.

This is used to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

_ga Non- essential first session 1 year Google Analytics
_gid Non- essential first session 1 year Google Analytics
_gat Non- essential first session 1 year Google Analytics
_first_pageview Non- essential first session 10 minutes It is used to make our code of “tracking” more efficient so that certain processes only run on the homepage of a visitor.
in.getclicky.com Non- essential third session 1 year Get Clicky is used for collecting anonymous website usage statistics.
__cfduid Non-essential third session 1 year Get Clicky is used for collecting anonymous website usage statistics.
catAccCookies Essential first session 13 months Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies.
_eventqueue Non-essential session 1 hour This cookie stores an array of mouse events that can’t be guaranteed to be logged to our servers before the current page is unloaded. These events can then be processed and logged on the subsequent page.
NID Non-essential session 1 year Enables Google maps to operate on our contact page