Cookie policy

Please read this Cookie Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy www.lauraoldfield.com/privacy-policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

Who we are

This website is operated by Laura Oldfield and for more information see the About page on our website.

Our website

This Cookie Policy relates to your use of our website, https://lauraoldfield.com

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate polices. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (for example, your computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

We may use the following cookies:

  1. 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.

  1. Analytical / performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website 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 visitors are finding what they are looking for easily.

  1. Functionality cookies. These are cookies that 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).

  1. Targeting cookies. These are cookies that 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.

For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org 

Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your permission (“Consent”) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences. 

Our use of cookies

The tables below provide more information about the cookies we use and why:

Strictly necessary cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

OneTrust

OptanonConsent

This is a strictly necessary cookie used to store information regarding cookie consent of users

One (1) year

Instagram

csrftoken

This is a strictly necessary cookie used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

One (1) year

Analytical / Performance cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

Google Analytics

_gid

_ga

_gali

_gat_gtag_UA_***
_gac_UA-***

These are analytical and performance cookies which helps us monitor how our website is used and distinguish individual visitors

From one (1) day to two (2) years

Functionality cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

Hotjar

_hjTLDTest

_hjid

These are functionality cookies used to work out the cookie path, and to identify individual users with random identifiers

From the end of the session to one (1) year

Targeting cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

Google Tag Manager

_uetvid
_uetsid

These are targeting cookies used to store and track visits across websites for advertising purposes

From one (1) day to thirteen (13) months

Google Analytics

_gcl_au

_gcl_aw

These are targeting cookies used to assess advertisement efficiency across websites

Three (3) months

Facebook

_fbp

This is a targeting cookie used to deliver targeted advertisements

Three (3) months

Instagram

rur

mid

_ig_did

ds_user_id

ig_nrcb

sessionid

These are targeting cookies used to track the visits of Instagram users and to optimise advertisements on Instagram

From eight (8) months to two (2) years

How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org 

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or the information we hold about you.

If you wish to contact us, please send an email to hello@lauraoldfield.com or contact us via the Contact page on our website.

Changes to this Policy

This Policy was published in September 2023 and last updated in September 2023. We may change this Policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via our website.