EHCP Cookie Policy

At EHCP, we understand that your privacy and personal information are important to you. We will always comply with our obligations under the data protection legislation and any other rules relating to cookies.

This cookie policy will tell you a bit more about what cookies are, why we use them, which cookies we use, how we respect your choices and provide further information about how you can exercise your rights.

What are cookies?

Cookies, pixels, tags and similar technologies are small text files that are placed on your computer when you use our website. They are used for a number of purposes such as enabling our website to function, providing security, remembering your preferences, providing statistics and analysis or for marketing purposes.

Types of cookies

Cookies can be categorised by who sets them, these are:

First Party Cookies

These are cookies set by us and are used for things such as making our website function properly, effectively and securely.

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set by other organisations, they can be used for advertising or enabling plug ins (such as YouTube videos) function properly.

Cookies can also be categories by their function. On our website, we place the following types of cookies:

  • Strictly necessary or necessary cookies

    These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.

  • Analytical, performance or statistical cookies

    These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality cookies

    • These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

  • Targeting cookies

    These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

Cookies on our website

Information about the types of cookies that we use, their purpose and other information is available on our cookie banner. You can access this at any time by clicking the ‘cookie settings’ icon at the bottom left of our webpage, and pressing ‘change your consent’.

Data Protection and Cookies

The rules relating to cookies sit alongside data protection rules – Some cookies contain personal data, whilst others do not. Where cookies contain personal data, we will rely on the following lawful grounds to process the information:

  • Where the cookie is strictly necessary, we will rely on legitimate interest to process the information. This legitimate interest is to ensure the effective and secure operation of our website.
  • Where the cookie is not strictly necessary, we will rely on consent to process the information.

Even when cookies do not contain any personal data, we can only set them with your consent, unless they are strictly necessary.

You can find more information about how we process your personal data, your data protection rights and how to contact us in our privacy policy.

Choices about cookies

When you first visit our site, or at other times; we will ask you which cookies you consent to. This will pop up as a ‘cookie banner’ at the bottom of your screen.

You can select ‘Allow all’ to enable necessary cookies and all other cookies. Selecting ‘Deny’ will disable all cookies other than Necessary cookies.

You can select which cookies you wish to apply by toggling the buttons (then pressing ‘Allow selection’):

  • Necessary (always selected)
  • Preferences
  • Statistics
  • Marketing

Please note, that ‘Necessary’ cookies are always enabled as they are necessary for our website to function properly.

You can change your preferences at any time by accessing our cookie banner by pressing the icon at the bottom left of the window. This will allow you to remake any of the selections above.

You can also manage your cookie preferences at your browser level. For more information on how to do this, please visit www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-and-delete-cookies However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Contacting us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at dataprotection@ehcp.org.uk

You can find out more information about how we process your personal data, your information rights and how to access them in our privacy policy.