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Information about our use of Cookies
Our website (www.spirellp.com) uses cookies to distinguish visitors from others to the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our website. By continuing to browse our site, you are agreeing to our use of Cookies.
What is a Cookie?
A “cookie” is a small data file containing letters and numbers that is transferred by a website to your computer’s hard drive and stored on your browser or computer hard drive. Spire sends cookies when you visit or surf our website or request information/complete a contact form. Enabling the cookies used on our website can be used to identify your computer. The aggregate information collected permits us to analyse traffic patterns on our website which enables us, over time, to provide you with a better experience on our website by improving the content and making it easier to use. For example, cookies can mean you only have to enter your password once on pages where a login is required.
Our website uses 12 types of cookies which allow our website to function properly and for us to distinguish you from other users on the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to make improvements to our website.
The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual analytical cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the list below.
Cookies do not harm your computer and do not enable us or any third party to view any information on your computer’s hard drive. You can block cookies by activating the setting in your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Category | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session |
| wordpress_test_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | 2 | WordPress test cookie | session |
| wp-settings- | 1 | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
1 year |
| wp-settings-time- | 2 | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
1 year |
| PHPSESSID | 1 | To identify your unique session on the website | session |
| SESS | 1 | To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. |
session |
| __utma | 2 | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase. |
permanent |
| __utmb | 2 | __utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site. | session |
| __utmc | 2 | __utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. | 30 mins |
| __utmz | 2 | Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used,and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whomand to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction. |
6 months |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. All cookies will expire after 2 years, except for those which are essential cookies on our website.
Managing Cookies
For more information about the cookies used by Google analytics. Most web browsers will allow some management of cookies via your browser settings for further information about managing cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Changes and reviews to our Cookie Policy
We reserve the right to update this policy at any time and we will make an updated copy of such cookie policy available on our website.
Spire Partners LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales No. OC 376511 and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Spire Management Limited is a Limited Company registered in England and Wales No. 8136849 and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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