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Cookie Policy

This policy applies on and from 16th May 2019.

We use cookies to help our website work and to understand how it is used. Non-essential cookies, such as analytics cookies, are only set if you accept them via our cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time using the ‘Cookie settings’ link in the footer of this site.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to the website or application on each subsequent visit so that they can recognise you and remember things like personalised details or user preferences.

Cookies are very useful and do lots of different jobs which help to make your experience on websites as smooth as possible. For example, they let you move between web pages efficiently, remember your preferences, and generally improve your experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

They are referred to as session or persistent cookies, depending on how long they are used:

  • Session cookies only last for your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for the period of time specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the site where the cookie was generated.

Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our website, a banner asks whether you accept analytics cookies. No analytics cookies are set unless you choose “Accept”. You can change your decision at any time using the ‘Cookie settings’ link in the footer. Choosing “Reject” means we will not set analytics cookies, and some insight into how the site is used will be unavailable to us — the website will still work normally.

The Cookies Used By Weather Tight Roofing Services And Why

Analytics cookies

To keep our Services relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services to help us understand how people use them. For example, we can see which parts of Weather Tight Roofing Services are most popular, identify when errors occur, and test different page versions or features to see which works best. Web analytics services use cookies to recognise your browser or device and, for example, identify whether you have visited Weather Tight Roofing Services before and what you have previously viewed or clicked on. This allows us to track information, such as how many individual users we have and how often they visit Weather Tight Roofing Services. It also helps us to analyse patterns of user activity and to develop a better user experience.

Again, these cookies do not identify you directly as they do not collect information such as your name or email address. However, the information collected by these cookies will be linked to a unique user identifier code. This is a random sequence of numbers and letters which we can use to link information collected by the cookies back to you without the cookies collecting your name or email address.

Third-party cookies

All the cookies described so far in this policy are “first-party cookies”, which means they are set and controlled by Weather Tight Roofing Services. Occasionally, third parties may set cookies on our website which Weather Tight Roofing Services does not control. These are called “third-party cookies”. This may happen in the following circumstance:

  • Embedded content: On some pages of our websites, we may include embedded content, for example from YouTube. When you visit a page with embedded content, the service provider may set its own cookies on your web browser to track the success of their application or to customise their application to you.

Weather Tight Roofing Services does not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these cookies.

The cookies used on this site are:

  • wtr-cookie-consent — remembers your cookie choice. Strictly necessary; set without consent. Lasts about 6 months.
  • _ga — set by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Analytics; set only after you accept. Lasts up to 2 years.
  • _ga_* — set by Google Analytics to retain session state. Analytics; set only after you accept. Lasts up to 2 years.

We also load Google Fonts, and our contact form is used to send us your enquiry.

How To Control Your Cookies

There are various ways that you can control and manage your cookies, which are discussed in a bit more detail below. Please remember these changes will apply to all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies from particular sites). The settings you change will also only apply to the device on which you change them and will not apply across all your devices. If you want to opt out of cookies on all your devices, you will need to change the settings on all your devices individually.

Managing cookies in your browser

Most modern browsers will allow you to:

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

You should be aware that any preferences will be lost if you delete all cookies. Ironically, this includes where you have opted out from cookies, as this requires an opt-out cookie to be set. This means that if you opt out from cookies and then delete all cookies, your opt-out will not be saved and you will need to opt out again.

If you block cookies completely, many websites will not work properly and some functionality on these websites will not work at all. We do not recommend turning cookies off when using our website for these reasons.

The links below take you to the ‘Help’ sections for each of the major browsers so that you can find out more about how to manage your cookies:

Managing Analytics Cookies

It is possible to opt out of having your browsing activity recorded by analytics cookies. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by clicking on the link below. Please note that this will take you to the relevant third party’s website and generate a ‘no thanks’ cookie, which will stop any further cookies being set by those third parties.

Don’t forget that by not allowing analytics cookies, this stops us from being able to learn what people like or don’t like about Weather Tight Roofing Services so that we can make them better.

Google Analytics opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

More Information

If you would like more information about our use of cookies, please contact us using the contact form on our website: /contact-us