How cookies are used on frederecksage.co.uk

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. which offers guidance for all modern browsers

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use frederecksage.co.uk. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • the pages you visit on frederecksage.co.uk 
- how long you spend on each frederecksage.co.uk page
  • how you got to the site
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site

We don’t collect or store your personal information (eg your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.

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Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
NamePurposeExpires
_utmaDetermines the number of unique visitors to the site2 years
_utmbThis works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our site30 minutes
_utmcThis works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser when you close your browser
_utmzThis provides information about how you reached the site (eg from another website or a search engine) 6 months
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