What are cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies to improve your experience. Cookies are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your browsing device (such as a computer or smartphone) when you visit a website. Cookies can be recognised by the website that downloaded them — or other websites that use the same cookies. This helps websites know if the browsing device has visited them before. This page describes what information is gathered, how it is used and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or disrupt certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Please note, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you accept all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The cookies we set
There are usually six types of cookies used on most websites: Strictly Necessary, Performance, Functionality and Targeting. In order to provide you with the best browsing experience, our website may use any or all of these categories. You can find out more about each cookie category in the sections below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the site and use its features. Without these cookies, some functions you have asked for on this website cannot be provided.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use the website, for example which accessibility features you enable most often and if you get error messages on certain host pages. These cookies don’t gather information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is anonymous and is only used to improve how the software works.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as which accessibility features your users have enabled on your site). For instance, the software uses functionality cookies to remember your accessibility preferences. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you’ve made to text size and other parts of pages that you can customise. The information collected by these cookies may be anonymous and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Targeting cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organisations such as advertisers. The below areas are where cookies are used to enhance your experience of our site.
Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. Forms related cookies When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences / Accessibility cookies
In order to provide the best experience, we provide the functionality which is to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called upon whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. For example, this site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most common and trusted web analytics tool that helps us to understand how you use our site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
More information
For more information regarding our use of cookies and our related policies please email catholichomes@catholichomes.com.