Cookie Policy
Introduction
This cookie policy sets out how CRS Law Ltd uses cookies when you use this website and other websites managed by CRS Law Ltd. CRS Law Ltd is committed to transparency when it comes to how we track or use your data and you can be assured that any data you provide will only be used in accordance with this cookie policy and our privacy policy.
You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated on 14/08/2023.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy at https://chrisruddsolicitors.co.uk/privacy-policy/.
Your consent applies to the following domains:
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies and Controlling Preferences
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Manage Consent” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
The Cookies We Set
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
We may also use session cookies when displaying on-page pop-ups for you. Those session cookies only last for as long as you have your web browser open, so they are deleting whenever you close your browser. We use these to help make sure you are only shown pop-ups from us when most relevant.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called when you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
You can control your cookie preferences by the categories listed below.
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as:
- Which pages you visit on the website
- How long you spend on our website
- We may track how you navigated to our website (e.g. search results, direct, social media referral)
- Whether you contact us after visiting this website via Google Ads, Facebook Ads, or another advertising platform.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official page for how Google uses cookies.
We also use Google Ads, which may use cookies to track how you interact with this website, if you have interacted with one of our ads on Google in the past 30 days. All this will record is whether you visit this website via a Google ad and if you get in touch with us after interacting with an ad, so that we can monitor our ad performance.
Other third-party platforms we may utilise that may use cookies may include:
- Facebook & Instagram Ads
- TikTok Ads
- Quora Ads
- LinkedIn Ads
We may use these other advertising platforms listed above, which may use cookies to track how you interact with this website and/or our ads. This is so we can track if you contact us after interacting with one of our ads, and so we can monitor our ad performance.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact our Data Protection Manager, Thomas Broady, via email on thomas@chrisruddsolicitors.co.uk or on dataprotection@chrisruddsolicitors.co.uk.
