COOKIES WEBSITE STATEMENT

Cookies are small text files that a website may place on your computer or mobile device when you first visit the website. These cookies help the website recognize your device the next time you visit. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term ‘cookies’ in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

At Cotswold Private GP, we use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us provide you with a good experience when you use our website and also allows us to improve the services we provide to you.

We use the following types of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Disabling them may mean you are unable to access parts of our website.

• Analytical or performance cookies. We use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often. This helps us improve how our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find what they’re looking for. Some of these cookies are known as analytic cookies, which allow us to monitor website traffic using industry-accepted third parties.

• Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website and to remember changes you’ve made to things like text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of the website so we can personalize our content for you.

• Targeting cookies. We use these cookies to 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 any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may share this information with third parties for this purpose.

For more details on the specific cookies we use, why we use them, and when they will expire, please see Part 1 of Appendix 1 of this Cookie Policy.

Please note that third parties (such as advertising networks and providers of external services) may also use cookies on the website, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies, or targeting cookies. Part 2 of Appendix 1 of this Cookie Policy provides a list of the third parties who may use these cookies and the reasons for which they use them.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change your cookie preferences by adjusting your browser settings to refuse the setting of all or some cookies if you prefer. You can usually do this by visiting the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu on your browser.

Please note, however, that if you do this and choose to block all cookies (including essential cookies), we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be, and you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Where we collect personal data as part of our use of cookies on the website, we will do so in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Appendix 1

Part 1 – Cookies usedWe use several types of cookies on our website to enhance functionality, improve performance, and deliver personalized experiences.

Session Cookie (PHPSESSID): This cookie maintains the user’s session across page loads and ensures logged-in users remain authenticated while navigating the site. It expires when the browser session ends.

Google Analytics (_ga): This cookie collects anonymized data on website usage, such as page visits and traffic sources, to help us improve website performance and user experience. It expires after 2 years. More information can be found in the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics (_gid): This cookie is used to distinguish individual users for analytics purposes and expires after 24 hours. More details are available in the Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Preference Cookie (cookie_pref): This cookie remembers the user’s cookie consent preferences and expires after 6 months.

Advertising Cookie (_fbp): This cookie is used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. It expires after 3 months. More details are available in the Facebook Data Policy.

Security Cookie (XSRF-TOKEN): This cookie helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks and expires when the browser session ends.

Part 2 – Third-party cookies

We also use cookies set by trusted third-party services to enhance our website and marketing efforts. Google Analytics is used to track and report website traffic, providing insights into visitor behavior and helping us improve the site. Google Ads enables us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and deliver relevant ads to users based on their browsing activity. Facebook Pixel allows us to track website activity, measure ad performance, and create targeted audiences for advertising. In addition, some pages contain embedded YouTube videos, which may set cookies to track viewing behavior and improve video playback performance.