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Why are cookies essential to the Burns & Co website?
This website, along with most other major websites, uses cookies. Cookies enable users to navigate around websites and (where appropriate) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the site and help us improve the user experience. Without cookies enabled we cannot guarantee that the website and your experience whilst visiting are as we intended it to be. None of the cookies used on our websites collect personally identifiable information about you.
The cookies that Burns & Co uses
At Burns & Co we use cookies in the following ways:
- To track how visitors reach our site and the path they take through it to help us improve our service to you. For example, we use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. Find out more about how these cookies are used on the Google Privacy site.
- To monitor and manage our Website traffic.
- To understand how our campaigns and marketing activities within the Burns & Co website are working to improve our site design. No information is passed to third parties.
Two types of cookies are used on this website:
Please note that none of the cookies we use on our website, contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you. The length of time a cookie will remain on your device will depend on the type of cookie.
Session Cookies. These are temporary cookies, which only exist in the period you access the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after accessing the website). Session cookies help the Burns & Co website remember what you chose on the previous page, therefore avoiding the need to re-enter information and improve your experience whilst using the site. These cookies do not contain personal information and cannot be used to identify you.
Persistent Cookies. These are cookies, which remain on your device after you have visited our website. e.g. if you use the 'Remember my ID' when accessing your personal login. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor; they do not contain information that could be used to identify you to another person.
How to control and delete cookies
If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device you will need to refer to your handset.