About Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are sent from a website to your computer or mobile phone via a browser. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They are stored on the hard drive of your device. Some are stored just for the duration of your visit to the website, others are stored for much longer periods.
Below describes how the Jones Bros website (www.jonesbros.co.uk) uses cookies.
How We Use Cookies
Our website, like many others, stores and retrieves information on your browser using cookies. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to. It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience.
Cookies help us identify your device and actions taken on this website. We use strictly necessary and functional cookies to enable you to move around the site and to provide basic features.
The cookies used on www.JonesBros.co.uk are not used to identify you personally.
Managing Your Cookies
Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to change your privacy preferences to prevent non-essential cookies being set. This functionality is provided by the Jones Bros. Privacy Preference Tool.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device, you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Specific Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expires |
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CookieControl
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CIVIC UK
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This cookie is necessary to store your cookie consent setting.
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90 days
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Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
| Cookie Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expires |
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_ga, _gat,_gid, 1P_JAR, APISID, HSID, NID, SAPISID, SID
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Google Analytics
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the Site from and the pages they visited. If you do not allow these cookies we will not be able to include your visit in our statistics. For details read the full Google Analytics privacy policy.
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_ga: 2 years,
_gat: 1 minute,
_gid: 24 hours
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__utma
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Google Analytics
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This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions.
It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners.
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2 years
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__utmb
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Google Analytics
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This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Any activity by a user within the 30-minute lifespan will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor.
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30 minutes
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__utmc
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Google Analytics
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This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin.
In this older versions, this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie, it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie.
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When you close your browser
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__utmt
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Google Analytics
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This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.
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10 minutes
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__utmv
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Google Analytics
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This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It is used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
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2 years
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__utmz
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Google Analytics
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This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
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6 months
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Can I Turn Cookies Off?
You can choose to disable cookies in your browser and delete all cookies currently stored on your computer and our website will still work.
