What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or device by the websites you visit. They are widely used in order to make the website display correctly and to help website owners improve the information and content being displayed.
There are different types of cookies.
| Cookie Type | Description |
| Session | A session cookie only lasts as long as your Internet Session. On our website Session Cookies are created to pass data between our pages, this happens when you select a function that requires continuance, so that your selection can be processed by that page or other pages. |
| Persistent | A persistent cookie outlasts an Internet Session and can be stored on your computer or device for up to 1 year and are widely used to remember your previous selections. We also use persistent cookies on our website, an example of this is to let our website know that our cookie policy was displayed to you, and when it should redisplay it. These cookies save you entering your selection each and every time you visit, or websites keep displaying certain elements every time you visit. |
| Secure | A secure cookie is used by us when you connect to our secure servers, ensuring that the cookie communications are encrypted and can safely be transmitted. |
| Http Only | Another more secure session cookie, which can only be used when transmitting HTTP or HTTPS only for accessing by the web server. |
| 1st Party | 1st Party cookies are those cookies written directly by our business website/domain. |
| 3rd Party | 3rd party cookies are written by 3rd party websites/domains, but executed via our business website/domain. |
The European Cookie Directive puts these cookies into 4 classifications.
| Cookie Type | Description |
 Category One | These Cookies are Strictly Necessary Cookies and do not require prior approval for use, as they provide additional security, server load balancing and perform functions you request from our website, such as purchasing, ordering, enquiries and bookings etc. |
 Category Two | These Cookies are Performance cookies, they tell us how many visitors view our website and what pages they find interesting and what pages they do not. This helps us to improve our website content and helps us to attract and interest a greater number of visitors. |
 Category Three | These cookies are Functional cookies that remember settings and configurations that you make or select on our website, so that we can display our website or content as you want us to. This saves you time and stops us interrupting your surfing experience, by asking you the same questions over and over. |
 Category Four | These cookies are Targeted Cookies, they help measure advertising campaigns and deliver the kind of content you would be interested, they also help to reduce displaying unnecessary content to you, you have no interest in. |
What Cookies Do We Use:-
| Cookie Type | Description | Cookie Name(s) |
| Google Analytics. Category 2 (not confirmed by provider) 3rd party Supplier 3rd Party Cookies | According to the ICO,
the delivery of tracking/analytics "are not part of the
functionality that the user requests when they use your online
service", therefore they require explicit permission from
the visitor prior to being executed. | _utma / distinguish users / 2 yrs _utmb / new session /30 mins _utmc / end broswer session _utmt / throttle rate requests / 10 mins _utmz / traffic source info / 6 mnth _utmv / custom variable / 2 yrs _ga / distinguish users / 2 yrs _gat* / distinguish users / 2 yrs _gid / distinguish users / 24 hrs Google Source |
| Security Category 1 (Confirmed) 1st Party Cookies |
Access Blocking where unauthorised access is detected | PHPSESSID / session only cookie |
| Our Website
request for Explicit Permission Category 3 (Confirmed) 1st Party Cookies |
We will only request explicit permission prior to activating
code that will store cookies on a visitors personal device on
pages that require it. Visitors can close the request for explicit permission without saving their preferences, but will be asked each time they revisit those specific page(s) where we lawfully need to gain explicit permission. A visitor can save their preference to enable or NOT specific cookies that require explicit permission. Prior to saving a preference, the visitor will be given a choice whether to save their preference just for the current session or for 90 days which will stop return requests for explicit permission for either the current session or 90 days. cookienotice contains encrypted data, explicit en/disable tracking/analytics save preferefence for session/90days | cookienotice / current session or 90 days (visitor choice) |
| Open Street Maps Category 1/3 (not confirmed by provider) 1st Party Cookies |
Open Street Map, who provide the mapping service, have stated
that 'all the cookies we use clearly fall under the 'information
society service' exemptions including the qos_token cookie which
serves as a session cookie for visitors of openstreetmap.org so
that we can provide a better UI experience (faster loading
tiles)'. These cookies are essential for delivering the functionality/service a visitor has requested, in this instance displaying locational positioning data of our cottages. | _pk_ref.1.cf09 / _osm_location / geo-cordinates / 10 yr _pk_id.1.cf09 / |
Blocking all known Tracking and Analytics
Microsoft Edge and the FireFox Mozilla web browsers now provide tracking and analytics blocking for certain code implementations when configured (read your manual for how to do this).When tracking / analytics blocking is enabled it means that your web browser will stop tracking and analytics code from running, even if you approve tracking and analytics be used on the website you are visiting.