This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, BMLL Technologies, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://bmlltech.com/ (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 13th December 2022.
‘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
● About cookies
● List of cookies used
● Non-essential cookies
● How to accept or reject cookies
● Copyright
About cookies
What 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
List of cookies used
The table below explains the cookies we use, why we use them and how long they last.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features and/or services. Without these absolutely necessary cookies, the site will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the site with certain services or features.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage.
Security Cookies
Security cookies help improve the website's security.
Cookie Name | Purpose | More information |
PHPSESSID | CMS functionality. | Default cookie |
PRLST | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
SPSE, SPSI | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
UTGv2 | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
adOtr | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
spcsrf | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
sbtsck: jav | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
plcaeHolder | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
DGCC | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
sp_lit | WAF Security measures | Stackpath |
| _ga | Analytics | Google Analytics |
| _gat | Analytics | Google Analytics |
| CookieControl | Google recaptcha | |
| CraftSessionId | CMS session ID | Craft CMS |
| _hjSessionUser_ | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | |
| CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | Craft CMS anti-cross site request forgery token | Craft CMS |
| euconsent-v2 | Transparency and Consent Framework | |
| a_username | Craft CMS cookie | Craft CMS |
Hubspot Analytics Cookie Policy
These are non-essential cookies controlled by the cookie banner. If you're a visitor to a site supported by HubSpot, you can opt-out of these cookies by not giving consent. To find out more click here for Hubspot’s cookie policy.
Cookie Name | Purpose | More information |
_lfuuid | The _lfuuid cookie allows a website to track visitor behavior on the sites on which the cookie is installed. Tracking is performed anonymously until a user identifies themselves by submitting a form. | |
| Hotjar | We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. | For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site |
Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
● Functional cookies
● Analytical (or performance) cookies
● Targeting (or advertising) cookies
Functional cookies
These 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 to register whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in the browser. The session cookie is called has_js
• two first-party session cookies used to help Google Analytics manage the number of users on our website. These Cookies are called _gat and _gali
• a third-party persistent cookie to improve the loading time and functionality of videos on our website. This cookie is: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE. This cookie expires after 179 days.
• a third-party persistent cookie used by Google in relation to the user’s consent settings. This cookie is called CONSENT and expires after 20 years.
How to opt-in or out of 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 providing and enhancing the website’s functionality.
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 and 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, OTZ which is a persistent cookie and expires after 6 months and _gid, which is a session cookie. We also use the Google Analytics cookie _gat and _gali, which is explained in more detail in the ‘functional cookies’ section above.
• YouTube cookies to track when you watch YouTube videos on websites across the internet. These generate statistics on the videos you watch such as how many videos you watch and for how long. These cookies are: PREF, YSC and GPS. YSC and GPS are session cookies and PREF is a persistent cookie expiring after 8 months.
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/ana...
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privac...
For YouTube’s (Google’s) privacy policy, please visit https://policies.google.com/pr...
How to opt-in or out of 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...
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. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.m-w.co.uk/privacy-...
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:
• a third party persistent cookie used by Google’s AdSense network which registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device which is used to target advertisements to the user. This cookie is called NID and expires after 6 months.
• a third party Google persistent remarketing cookie to display advertisements to you about our goods and services across the internet, including on other websites you visit. This cookie is called IDE and expires after 1 year.
• third party persistent cookie used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates. This cookie is 1P_JAR and expires after 1 month.
• a third party persistent cookie which collects anonymous data related to the user’s visit to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, with the purpose of personalising and improving the Twitter service. This cookie is guest_id and expires after 2 years.
Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google remarketing, click here: https://support.google.com/adw...
For further information on Google’s advertising cookies, please see their cookies policy here: https://policies.google.com/te...
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 analytical cookies
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. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies, including profiling and automated decision-making please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.m-w.co.uk/privacy-...
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. 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.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
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/chr...
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en...
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/...
- Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/P...
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...
Google Ad settings
You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page herehttps://adssettings.google.com... and by:
- unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
- switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).
Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads...