Cookie Policy

This website, https://draaronburgesspsychology.co.uk/, uses cookies 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.

A cookie will typically contain a record of the website which issued it, its own name, and a value which is often a randomly generated unique number. A cookie will have a ‘lifetime’, which tells your browser when to delete it.

Types of cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website.  This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice to dismiss our website announcement bar or email sign-up box).

  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow users to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around their website.  They can help to improve the way websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.  They are used to make websites and advertising more relevant to visitors’ interests.

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.  They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the list below:

PHPSESSID
Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling.
Cookie duration: 1 month

RecentRedirect
Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects.
Cookie duration: 30 minutes

remember_client
Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account.
Cookie duration: 365 days 

Site UserCrumb
Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.
Cookie duration: 3 years

SiteUserInfo
Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account
Cookie duration: 3 years

SiteUserSecureAuthToken
Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account
Cookie duration: 3 years

squarespace-announcement-bar
Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
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Duration: Persistent

squarespace-likes
Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.
localstorage
Duration: Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay
Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
localstorage
Durtion: Persistent

ss_cookieAllowed
Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies
Cookie duration: 30 days

ss_sd
Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.
Cookie duration: Session

Test
Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Cookie: Session

TZ
Allows scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.
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Duration: Persistent


Third Party Cookies

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the website and compile reports for us on activity on the website. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

To reject, delete or find out more about this cookie visit https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/cookie-usage

Accepting and declining cookies – your choice

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.