When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. 

www.simon-dean.co.uk puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.

Cookies are used to:

  • measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
  • remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again

Cookies on www.simon-dean.co.uk aren’t used to identify you personally.

Find out more about how to manage cookies

How cookies are used on www.simon-dean.co.uk

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use www.simon-dean.co.uk. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • the pages you visit
  • how long you spend on each page
  • how you got to the site 
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site

We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

Universal Analytics

Name: _ga
Purpose: This helps us count how many people visit
www.simon-dean.co.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
Expires: 2 years

Name: _gid
Purpose: This helps us count how many people visit
www.simon-dean.co.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
Expires: 24 hours  (3 days for the ‘register a food business’ service)

Name: _gat
Purpose: Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made. This cookie does not store any user information,
Expires: The expiry settings are set by Goog

Cloudflare

Name: __cfduid
Purpose: Set by the CloudFlare to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
Expires: 5 years

Further details on cookies set by Cloudflare.

Cookie Consent by Osano

Name: cookieconsent_status
Purpose: This cookie is used to store the user’s preference on whether they have consented to cookies by clicking on the button in the popup.
Expires: 1 year