Cookie Policy

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘Ants Removals Limited’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is Unit D Lancaster Road Industrials Estate, 57 Lancaster Road, EN4 8AS.  Our company is registered in the UK under registration number 6711981. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

We use cookies to provide you with a better experience when accessing our websites. They also help us to analyse how visitors use our websites and this help us to improve the content and design of our websites.

General Information about cookies

  1. A cookie is a small file typically consisting of a string of letters and numbers that is sent by our web server to your web browser (e.g. Chrome or Edge), and is then stored by the browser. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, it sends this small file back to the server so that the server can distinguish and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and improve the experience for returning users.

  2. Cookies can be either ‘session cookies ‘or ‘persistent cookies’. A session cookie will expire, be deleted, at the end of the user session, when you close your web browser. A persistent cookie will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until a set expiry date (unless you go in and manually delete it before the expiry date).

How we use cookies

  1. We may use cookies for the following purposes:

    1. To recognise your device when you visit our websites;

    2. To log on and register on our websites:

    3. To improve our websites’ usability;

    4. To analyse the use of our websites;

    5. To link to email marketing campaigns;

    6. To improve the security of our websites; and

    7. For the general administration of our websites.

Cookies on our website

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on this website. Session cookies are those that delete themselves when you leave the site. Persistent cookies are those that have an expiry date after you first visit our website.

Most cookies we use are persistent cookies to give you a better experience and service, as well as making it more secure.

For your information these are the cookies active on our website

 

Name Description Expires

 

_ga

 

Used to distinguish users. Persistent cookie. 2 years
_gid Used to distinguish users. Persistent cookie. 24 hours
_gat

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. Persistent cookie.

 

1 minute
PHPSESSID

The PHPSESSID cookie is native to PHP and enables websites to store serialised state data. The PHPSESSID cookie disappears once the website and session is closed. Session cookie

 

When you close the browser

 

Third-party Requests

These are request that are made from a user to an external service. Despite the fact that these requests don't set any cookies, they can still transfer privacy information to third parties.

We have the following Third-party Requests enabled on our website

 

Name

 

URL

 

Google Analytics https://www.google-analytics.com
Google Analytics https://www.google-analytics.com/r/collect?
Google Tag Manager https://www.googletagmanager.com
Google Maps https://maps.googleapis.com/maps
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Analytics Cookies

  1. Analytics are persistent cookies that allow us to recognise, count the number of visitors, and provide anonymous data about how our visitors use our websites.

  2. Using analytics cookies helps us improve the way our websites work and navigate, ensuring that users are able to find what they are looking for without difficulty. No personally identifiable data is collected about you.

  3. We use Google Analytical Cookies ending with: _ga, _gid, _gat

  4. For further information please click here https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Managing and Blocking cookies

  1. You can block some or all cookies by activating the setting on your browser. 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 websites. This may impair your ability to fully utilise our websites.

  2. More information about cookies can be found on the website http://www.aboutcookies.org. This also gives details on how to delete cookies from your device. For information on how to do this on your smart mobile phone or tablet browser, please consult your device’s manual, or manufacturer.

  3. More information can be found here: http://docs.businesscatalyst.com/reference/misc/bc-cookies.html.

 

Your Consent

  1. By clicking “ACCEPT” on the cookie banner, you agree to the placement of cookies on your device, unless you actively block them. If you choose not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience will be as fulfilling as it would otherwise be, in fact you might not be able to access any or all of the website. Once your consent has been provided, this message will not appear again when you revisit. If you, or another user of your computer, wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you can do so by altering your browser settings.

 

Contact us

  1. If you have any questions about our cookies or this cookies policy please contact us by email to [email protected]

Date of Policy: 17.05.18