SDL Surveying is a trading name of SDL Surveying Limited. Registered office: 3-4 Regan Way, Chetwynd Business Park, Chilwell, Nottingham, NG9 6RZ. Registered in England and Wales under company number 02411812. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Cookie Policy forms part of our legal information and sets out how we use cookies on our website to help make your visits more effective.
SDL Surveying Cookie Policy
Our website (https://sdlsurveying.co.uk/) uses cookies and other similar technologies (referred to together as “cookies” in this policy) to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Necessary cookies – These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our website. For example, cookies that help ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively.
- Functionality cookies – These cookies are important for the website to operate, although not strictly necessary. For example, a cookie that remembers a user’s customised language settings
- Analytical or performance cookies – These cookies analyse or predict an individual’s preferences or behaviour. For example, by monitoring a user’s movements around the website.
- Marketing cookies – These cookies track and profile users for direct marketing and advertising. For example, a cookie that tracks someone from our website across to a social media website and shows adverts on that user’s social media page relating to our website.
- Third Party Cookies – These are cookies placed on a user’s hard disk by a website from a domain other than the one a user is visiting.
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| handl_landing_page | To remember the initial page you arrived on for the website. | 1 Month |
| handl_ip | Records the I.P address in your browser. | 1 Month |
| handl_url | The URL of the site which stored the cookie. | 1 Month |
| handl_original_ref | The original referring URL. | 1 Month |
| handl_ref | The referring URL. | 1 Month |
| _hjSessionUser_1632053 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script used to store unique user ID to ensure that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 Year |
| _hjSession_1632053 | A hotjar cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | 30 Minutes |
| gclid | Google Click Identifier is a unique tracking number added to each individual AdWords click to identify from where an individual is entering the site. | Past |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. | 1 Year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". | 11 Months |
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gat | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 Minute |
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 30 minutes |
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 Months |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 Years |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 Day |
| _gat_UA-78886218-2 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 1 Minute |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | 30 Minutes |
| hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. | 2 Minutes |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 30 Minutes |
| utm_source | This cookie is used to record from where the visitor came to the website originally. This information is used by the website operator to know the efficiency of their marketing. | Past |
| utm_content | This cookie is used for storing the session content value if present. | Past |
| utm_campaign | Google Ad Services sets this cookie to store session campaign value if present. | Past |
| utm_term | This cookie is used to record from where the visitor came to the website orginally. This information is used by the website operator to know the efficiency of their marketing. | Past |
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | 15 Minutes |
| utm_medium | This cookie is used to record from where the visitor came to the website originally. This information is used by the website operator to know the efficiency of their marketing. | Past |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. | 1 year 24 days |
| YSC | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | Session |
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration | Link to Third Party Privay Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 5 months 27 days | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | Never | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. | Never | https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en |
Cookie Preferences
You can control which types of cookie are set by changing your preferences through our cookie banner when you first visit our website or at any time by clicking here:
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Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some 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 and you will not receive a personalised service.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please use the following links: