1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners.

2. How We Use Cookies

Zimwell uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyse website traffic, and understand how visitors interact with our website. We implement Google Consent Mode v2 to ensure compliance with privacy regulations.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookie Name Purpose Duration
cookie_consent Stores your cookie consent preferences 1 year
PHPSESSID Maintains session state Session

3.2 Performance Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. They help us improve the website's performance and user experience.

Cookie Name Purpose Duration
_ga Google Analytics - distinguishes users 2 years
_gid Google Analytics - distinguishes users 24 hours
_gat Google Analytics - throttles request rate 1 minute

3.3 Functional Cookies

These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalisation, such as remembering your preferences and choices.

3.4 Marketing Cookies

We currently do not use marketing or advertising cookies. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and seek your consent.

4. Google Consent Mode v2

We implement Google Consent Mode v2, which allows us to adjust how Google tags behave based on your consent choices. This ensures that:

  • Analytics data is collected in a privacy-preserving manner when you reject non-essential cookies
  • Your consent preferences are respected across all Google services we use
  • We maintain compliance with UK GDPR and other privacy regulations

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors, where visitors have come from, and the pages they visited.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google's Cookie Policy.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control and manage cookies in several ways:

6.1 Through Our Cookie Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie banner where you can accept all cookies or reject non-essential cookies.

6.2 Through Your Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to:

  • Block all cookies
  • Allow only first-party cookies
  • Delete cookies when you close your browser
  • Notify you each time a cookie is set

Please note that blocking all cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website.

6.3 Browser-Specific Instructions

  • Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
  • Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
  • Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data
  • Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies

6.4 Opting Out of Google Analytics

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at Google Analytics Opt-out.

7. Impact of Disabling Cookies

If you choose to disable or reject cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly or you may not be able to access certain features.

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, operational, or regulatory reasons. The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

Zimwell
91 Union Street
Aberdeen AB11 6BH
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 1224 589 417