Cookie Policy

This policy describes how we may collect, use and share the information you provide when you visit this website, receive our emails or interact with our advertisements on third-party websites.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of data stored in a user’s web browser while they view a website. When the user browses the website again, the data can be retrieved to notify the website of the user’s previous activity.

How we use cookies:

When you browse our website or receive one of our emails,  www.lancashirebusinessview.co.uk use cookies to collect information about your online preferences.

The cookies we use do not capture information that can identify you. The information they gather helps us improve your online experience and could include, for example, the time and duration of your visit to our website, pages you view, or the addresses of sites from which you arrive and leave our site.

Cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful. They do not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of a website.

We take your privacy seriously and comply with UK and EU law on handling cookies.

Effective Date

Below is a table of the cookies our website placed on your computer.

Cookie NameCookie CategoryDescriptionDuration
wordpress_2WordPress cookie for a logged in user.session
wordpress_logged_in_2WordPress cookie for a logged in usersession
wordpress_test_2WordPress cookie for a logged in usersession
wordpress_test_cookie2WordPress test cookiesession
wp-settings-1WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies.
The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table.
This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
1 year
wp-settings-time-2WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.1 year
PHPSESSID1To identify your unique session on the websitesession
SESS1To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered.session
__utma2This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things like Days and Visits to purchase.permanent
__utmb2__utmb is a Google Analytics cookie. It takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site.session
__utmc2__utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site.30 mins
__utmz2Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine you used, what link you clicked on, what keyword you used, and where they were in the world when you accessed a website. This cookie is how Google Analytics knows to whom and to what source / medium / keyword to assign the credit for a Goal Conversion or an Ecommerce Transaction.6 months
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