Regulation & Compliance

Cookies Policy

Privacy & Cookies

Foot Anstey understand that privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technology it uses.   This Cookies Policy explains how and why we use cookies, pixels and tags and other technologies that may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website that posts a link to this policy.  This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

What are cookies and why do we use them?

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies, pixels and tags.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

  • Enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task;
  • Recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested;
  • Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

You can find details on how to manage these small files yourself and learn more about them at the website www.aboutcookies.org.

We have tried to cover all cookies in this list that we or our service providers use. If you do notice any discrepancies please be sure to contact us and let us know.

More information on our Privacy Policy

How do you remove and disable cookies?

We use cookies to help to enhance our features and services for visitors to our website.

However, if at any time you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, 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 machine as well as more general information about cookies.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

Cookies set by us

The X-Mapping cookie is sent by the server to keep the user’s browser sessions intact by using the same server, even if a page is reloaded.

Name: X-Mapping-hnnbnhog
Typical content: Information about which server is providing content to the user
Domain: www.footanstey.com
Expires: when user exits browser

Third party cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Domain: www.footanstey.com
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Domain: www.footanstey.com
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Domain: www.footanstey.com
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Domain: www.footanstey.com
Expires: 6 months

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website.

Cookies for improving service

Google Analytics

Google Analytics sets cookies to help accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

For further details about the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website

How to opt out of Google Analytics

To stop Google collecting this information, use the following link to opt out of all Google analytics: Google Analytics – Opt Out

Hotjar

Hotjar is a heatmapping technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

How to opt out of Hot Jar

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.

Social media

We also use cookies provided by social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies can be used in connection with:

  • Foot Anstey advertising served to a user of the Foot Anstey website on the social media sites in question,
  • the recognition of such users to do so and the devices used by the user to access said social media sites as well as the Foot Anstey web site.

Further information on each Cookie is set out below.

Outside of the Foot Anstey website, your use of third party sites such as Facebook and Linkedin and the privacy policies of those websites are individually governed by those services, of which Foot Anstey has no involvement in. For more details on those policies, your preferences and how to set your preferences / opt out of these specific cookies, please see the links within the description of each cookie:

Facebook Pixel

A conversion tracking and remarketing tool whereby after visiting our website, an advert may appear in your news feed on Facebook. The collected data allowing this functionality remains anonymous to Foot Anstey as this is served and processed by Facebook. Facebook is able to connect the pixel data about your visit to your Facebook account, allowing a custom audience to be built up on Facebook which can then get shown targeted advertising.

Privacy:
http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

Opt-out:
https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/

LinkedIn Insight Tag

A conversion tracking and remarketing tool whereby after visiting our website, an advert may appear in your news feed on LinkedIn. The collected data allowing this functionality remains anonymous to Foot Anstey as this is served and processed by LinkedIn. LinkedIn is able to connect the tag data about your visit to your LinkedIn account, allowing a specific audience to be built up on LinkedIn which can then get shown targeted advertising.

Privacy:
http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy

Opt-out:
https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

Twitter Pixel

A conversion tracking and remarketing tool whereby after visiting our website, an advert may appear in your news feed on Twitter. The collected data allowing this functionality remains anonymous to Foot Anstey as this is served and processed by Twitter. Twitter is able to connect the tag data about your visit to your Twitter account, allowing targeted adverts to be shown to a certain set of users on Twitter.

Privacy:
http://twitter.com/privacy

Opt-out:
https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads

Contact us

If you have any questions about our cookie policy please contact us at [email protected] or write to us here.