Privacy Policy & Cookies
Simpson Millar LLP recognise that your privacy is important and treat our obligations
under the Data Protection Act 1998 seriously. We will treat any personal information
we collect confidentially under the term of and in accordance with this Privacy
Policy and also the Terms and Conditions of Use of
the website. In the event that you follow a link to a different website this Privacy
Policy will not apply and you should refer to the relevant policy of any other website
you visit.
Cookies
In order that we can provide you with a better user experience we sometimes place
small data files on a user's computer, laptop, tablet or mobile phone known as cookies.
These data files do not store personal information about you, but merely about the
choices you make when navigating our website and are used purely for analytical
purposes.
More information about cookies in general can be found here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
The way we use cookies on our websites:
Analytics – eg how visitors use our website
We use Google Analytics and Adobe SiteCatalyst to store information about how visitors
use our website in order that we may make improvements and provide visitors with
a better user experience.
Google Analytics and Adobe SiteCatalyst are third party information storage systems
that record information about the pages you visit, the length of time you were on
specific pages and the website in general, how you arrived at the site and what
you clicked on when you were there. These cookies do not store any personal information
about you eg name, address etc and we do not share the data. You can view their
respective privacy policies below:
Examples of cookies set:
Google Analytics
- Cookie Name: _utma; Typical content: This cookie is typically written to the browser
upon the first visit to your site from that web browser. If the cookie has been
deleted by the browser operator, and the browser subsequently visits your site,
a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. This cookie is used to
determine unique visitors to your site and it is updated with each page view. Additionally,
this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both
the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.; Expires:
2 years
- Cookie Name: _utmb; Typical content: This cookie is used to establish and continue
a user session with your site. When a user views a page on your site, the Google
Analytics code attempts to update this cookie. If it does not find the cookie, a
new one is written and a new session is established. Each time a user visits a different
page on your site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes, thus continuing
a single session for as long as user activity continues within 30-minute intervals
- Cookie Name: _utmc; Typical content: this cookie operated in conjunction with the
__utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user;
Expires as soon as you exit your browser
- Cookie Name: _utmz; Typical content: This cookie stores the type of referral used
by the visitor to reach your site, whether via a direct method, a referring link,
a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate
search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within your own site. The
cookie is updated with each page view to your site and expires after 6 months
SiteCatalyst
- Cookie Name: s_cc; Typical content: This cookie stores a true or false value based
on if the user has cookies enabled or not and is a session based cookie which means
it expires when the browser is closed
- Cookie Name: s_sq; Typical Content: This cookie contains information about the previous
link that was clicked on by the user and is also a session based cookie that expires
when the browser is closed
- Cookie Name: s_vi [ID]; Typical Content: This cookie simply remembers the user and
the time/date of visit and is a persistent cookie that lasts for approx 2 years
General Session Cookie set by our website:
- Name: Asp.net_sessionid; Typical content: randomly generated text that is session
based and expires as soon as you close your browser
IP addresses
- An IP or Internet Protocol Address is a unique numerical address assigned to a computer
as it logs on to the internet. Simpson Millar do not have access to any personal
identifiable information and we would never seek this information. Your IP address
is logged when visiting our site, but our analytic software only uses this information
to track how many visitors we have from particular regions.
Cookie - Consent
Using the Cookie Control
You may
have noticed this image appearing in the bottom left hand corner of our website.
This is a cookie control and allows you to turn on and off your consent to cookies
being stored by this website. To change your current consent options just click
on the image that appears on the left hand side. NB: The image will appear in green
if you have given consent and orange if you have revoked consent.
Please note that if you turn off cookie consent using the Cookie Control it will
insert a cookie to remember that you have revoked consent called "civicAllowCookies".
Giving or removing consent using your browser
You are completely in control of cookies stored on your device and can view/delete
them at any time using settings in your browser, for instance, to refuse all cookies
in:
- IE Browsers click "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and choosing "Block all
cookies"
- Google Chrome Browsers click "spanner icon", "Settings", "under the bonnet", "content
settings" and then choosing "Block sites from setting any data"
- Firefox browsers click "Tools", "Options", "Privacy" and ticking the option to not
track you etc
- Safari browsers click "Settings", "Preferences", "Privacy" and selecting the appropriate
cookie options
- Mobiles – open up the internet, select "settings" then look under the "privacy"
section to adjust your cookie settings
Note: Obstructing all cookies could, however, have an adverse impact upon the
usability of this website and many others on the internet.
Personal Data
Personal data that you provide to Simpson Millar LLP will be used to provide services
you request from us and also to enable us to deal with your enquiry. We may add
your personal data to our database and use that data to send you information about
products and services which may interest you. Should you not wish us to use your
personal data in this way you will have an opportunity to indicate this when you
enter your details or you may separately notify us of this wish as set out below.
Simpson Millar LLP are unable to guarantee that e-mails sent by you will be received
by us or that any e-mails sent by us will be received by you. We are further unable
to guarantee the security of e-mails passing between you and Simpson Millar LLP
or between Simpson Millar LLP and you. In the event that you are concerned about
the security of e-mail correspondence you can telephone or write to us.
Unless we are required to disclose personal information by law, under any regulatory
process or in pursuit of delivering the product or service requested by you we will
keep your personal information confidential.
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have a right to receive details of the personal
information we hold about you following payment of a fee. If you would like to see
that information or if you are concerned that the information we hold may be incorrect
please contact:
Craig Jones
Partner and Operations Director
Simpson Millar LLP
21-27 St Paul's Street
Leeds
LS1 2JG
Tel: 0844 858 3200
Email: craig.jones@simpsonmillar.co.uk
Our Data Protection Registration Number: Z643724X
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