Cookie Policy
Last Updated: 15 April 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies are essential for the modern internet, facilitating a more personalised and efficient user experience. They can be classified in several ways:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire and are automatically deleted when you close your web browser. They are used to manage your current Browse session.
- Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set period specified in the cookie. They are activated each time you visit the website that created that particular cookie. They are used to remember your preferences and settings for future visits.
- First-party Cookies: These are set by the website you are visiting directly (in this case, GamGuard UK).
- Third-party Cookies: These are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting. This typically occurs when a website incorporates elements from other sites, such as analytics tools or social media plugins.
This policy provides detailed information about the specific cookies used on our Website and how you can manage them.
2. How We Use Cookies
GamGuard UK uses cookies for a limited number of purposes, all of which are aimed at improving the functionality of our Website and understanding how it is used. We are committed to using cookies responsibly and transparently. We categorise our cookies as follows:
2.1. Strictly Necessary & Functionality Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. They are fundamental to the site's operation.
- Cookie Consent: The most important functionality cookie we use is the one that remembers your choice regarding our cookie consent banner. When you accept our use of cookies, a persistent cookie is set to prevent the banner from appearing on your subsequent visits. This is essential for a smooth user experience.
2.2. Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our Website—for instance, which pages you go to most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you personally. All the information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Website works.
- Google Analytics: Like many websites, we use Google Analytics to help us analyse user traffic. Google Analytics uses cookies to generate statistical and other information about website use. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. While this service tracks your IP address, we have enabled IP anonymisation features within Google Analytics to protect your privacy.
2.3. Targeting or Advertising Cookies
We do not use targeting or advertising cookies on GamGuard UK. Our purpose is to provide impartial information, not to track your Browse habits for advertising purposes. We do not use cookies to build a profile about you or to show you personalised advertisements on other websites.
3. Specific Cookies We Use
The following table lists the main cookies used on our Website and their purpose:
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| cookie_consent_accepted | First-Party, Persistent | Stores your consent status for the cookie banner. This prevents the banner from reappearing on every page load once you have made a choice. It expires after one year. |
| _ga, _ga_* | Third-Party (Google Analytics) | Used to distinguish users for statistical purposes. It calculates visitor, session, and campaign data for our site analytics reports. All data is aggregated and anonymised. |
| _gid | Third-Party (Google Analytics) | Also used to distinguish users. This cookie helps us understand how a visitor uses the website and tracks performance. |
For more detailed information about the cookies used by Google Analytics, please refer to the official Google Analytics documentation.
4. How to Manage Your Cookies
You have full control over how cookies are used on your device. You can manage and delete cookies as you wish. Below are the primary methods for controlling your cookie preferences.
4.1. Our Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our Website, a banner will appear asking for your consent to use cookies. By clicking "Accept", you agree to our use of all cookies as described in this policy. This is the simplest way to manage your preferences for our site.
4.2. Browser Settings
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
To manage cookies in your specific browser, please follow the instructions provided by the browser developer. Here are links to the support pages for the most common browsers:
Disabling performance cookies may prevent us from learning about our website's performance and making relevant improvements, but it will not affect your ability to access our content.
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We therefore encourage you to re-visit this policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last updated.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us via the details on our Contact Us page.