Privacy Policy

1. www.longclosecare.co.uk is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the security of any personal information received from you. We strictly adhere to the requirements of the data protection legislation in the UK. The purpose of this statement is to explain to you what personal information we collect and how we may use it.

2. We use your personal information

to notify you of changes to the website
to update you about new products/services
to improve our products/services
to conduct research

3. We do not sell, rent or exchange your personal information with any third party for commercial reasons.

4. We follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access in accordance with the UK data protection legislation.

We do not collect sensitive information about you except when you specifically knowingly provide it. In order to maintain the accuracy of our database, you can check, update or remove your personal details by email.

5. www.longclosecare.co.uk uses cookies. By using www.longclosecare.co.uk and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our cookie policy (see below).

6. If you have any questions about privacy please contact us at enquiries@longclosecare.co.uk.

Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

1. About cookies

Cookies are files, often including unique identifiers, that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website, and to identify users returning to a website.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

2. Cookies on this website

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website.

We may send to you the following cookies:

ANONID or ANONID_FS
ANONID_FS
VID or VISID
__utma
__utmb
__utmz
__utmc
s_cc
s_sq
visitorDeviceClass
ASP.NET_SessionId

Cookies [1 to 6] are persistent cookies, whereas cookies [7 to 11] are session cookies.

3. How we use cookies

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use the information we obtain from your use of our cookies for the following purposes:

(1) [to recognise your computer when you visit our website;]
(2) [to track you as you navigate our website;]
(3) [to improve the website's usability;]
(4) [to analyse the use of our website;]
(5) [in the administration of this website;]

4. Third party cookies

When you use our website, you may also be sent third party cookies.

Our [advertisers/service providers] may send you cookies. They may use the information they obtain from your use of their cookies:

(1) [to track your browser across multiple websites;]
(2) [to build a profile of your web surfing;]
(3) [to target advertisements which may be of particular interest to you.]

[In addition, we use [Google Analytics] to analyse the use of this website. [Google Analytics] generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. [Google] will store this information. [Google's] privacy policy is available at: [http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html].]

5. Blocking cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example:

(1) in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector

(2) in Firefox you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", and un-checking "Accept cookies from sites" in the "Privacy" box.

Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

6. Deleting cookies

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer:

(1) in Internet Explorer, you must manually delete cookie files;

(2) in Firefox, you can delete cookies by, first ensuring that cookies are to be deleted when you "clear private data" (this setting can be changed by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Settings" in the "Private Data" box) and then clicking "Clear private data" in the "Tools" menu.

Obviously, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.