Cookie Policy
Our website 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. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case CD Practice Limited) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use the following cookies:
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.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Title
Cookie Name |
Purpose | More information |
| Essential cookie:
CMS CMSSESSID56e800cb |
This is a cookie that measures a session and are essential to enable you to move around the website and its features. | https://cmscanbesimple.org/cookies
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| Non-essential:
Universal Analytics (Google) ga.js
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
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For more information please refer to Google Analytics cookies, and here for an overview of privacy at Google
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We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties. More information about the cookies on our website and their expiry dates are shown below:
Essential website cookies:
| Name: | WordPress CMS cookie: CMSSESSID56e800cb |
| Purpose: | This is a cookie that measures a session and is essential to enable you to move around the website and its features. |
| Provider: | .christosdimitriou.co.uk |
| Service: | CMS https://cmscanbesimple.org/cookies |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | Server cookie |
| Expires in: | End of browser session |
Google Analytics and customization cookies:
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Websites are being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Websites for you.
| Name: | __utmc# |
| Purpose: | The cookie registers the timestamp a user leaves a website to help calculate the duration of time spent on it using Google Analytics. The cookie activity lasts during the browsing session. It is a HTTP cookie type. |
| Provider: | .christosdimitriou.co.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in:
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End of browser session |
| Name: | __utma# |
| Purpose: | Used by Google Analytics to record the number of times a visitor accessed the website as well as the dates for the first and recent visit. It is a HTTP cookie and expires in 2 years. |
| Provider: | .christosdimitriou.co.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in:
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1 year 12 months 4 days |
| Name: | __utmb# |
| Purpose: | Used by Google analytics to compute the duration a website is visited using the exact time that a user accesses a website. This is a HTTP cookie that expires after the session. |
| Provider: | .christosdimitriou.co.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in:
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30 minutes |
| Name: | __utmz# |
| Purpose: | Uses Google Analytics to gather location details for the website visitors, the clicked link, the search term, and the search engine that was used. This cookie is a HTTP type that lasts for 6 months. |
| Provider: | .christosdimitriou.co.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 6 months 2 days |
| Name: | __utmt# |
| Purpose: | Used to control the speed of requests to the website’s server. Expires after the session and is a HTTP type cookie. |
| Provider: | .christosdimitriou.co.uk |
| Service: | Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type: | http_cookie |
| Expires in: | 10 minutes |
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
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.
How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. This Cookie Policy was last updated on 12 March 2020.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at secretary@christosdimitriou.co.uk or by post to:
CD Practice Limited
10 Harley Street
London
W1G 9PF
Tel: 07720558940 (Practice Manager)
