1 – WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small blocks of data placed on your devices when you visit and browse our website.
2 – WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF COOKIES?
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the functionality of our website and to enable you to view our content and interact with our website. For instance, cookies that allow you to view content on different web pages on our Website are “strictly necessary”. You cannot disable strictly necessary cookies.
Statistical cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze our website visitor’s behavior on our website, carry out analysis and reporting activities. For instance, these cookies collect data about the web pages you visit on our website, your clicks, and the timestamps of your visits to our website.
Marketing & targeting cookies: These cookies allow us and our advertising partners to track you across different websites and platforms and to analyze your browsing activity so that we can measure the effectiveness of our ads and display the most relevant ads to you both on our website and on third-party platforms.
3 – WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU BY USING COOKIES?
When we use cookies, we collect the following types of personal data about you:
Timestamp of your visits to our website
Your device’s model, operating system, browsing settings, language preferences
Your device ID
Your IP address
Your geolocation data (Country or region from which you access our website)
Information about how you browse our website, such as the links you click, how much time you spend on each page, referral links
4 – WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO COLLECT AND PROCESS PERSONAL DATA VIA COOKIES?
Under the UK GDPR and the PECR, we must rely on a legal basis to justify the use of cookies and similar tools on our website.
The table below shows the legal basis we rely on for each category of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies Legitimate interests under article 6.1.f of the UK GDPR
Statistical cookies We rely on your consent under Article 6.1.a of the GDPR
Marketing & Advertising cookies We rely on your consent under Article 6.1.a of the GDPR
5 – PURPOSES FOR THE USE OF COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
We use cookies for the following purposes:
To ensure and maintain the safety and integrity of our website
To provide our website’s core functionalities, our services, and our content to our website visitors and customers
To analyze our website visitors’ browsing activity and behaviour
To improve our website, content, and services
To measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns
To show you relevant ads
For retargeting ads to you
For remarketing
6 – NOTICE ABOUT GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We use the google analytics tool on our website to understand how our website visitors browse through our website, to measure user engagement, and to improve our content and services.
Google Analytics is activated only after you give consent through our cookies banner and it may collect the following categories of personal data:
Your geographic location
Your interactions on our website
The timestamp of your visits to our website
Your operating system
Your browser type and browser settings
For more detailed information, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
7 – HOW TO REJECT COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
When you visit our website, you will be presented with the cookies banner, which enables you to configure your preferences for various categories of cookies on our website.
You can consent to or reject cookies by visiting this banner on our website.
8 – COOKIES AND THIRD-PARTY TOOLS WE USE
Marketing cookies
Cookie name: __zlcmid
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Preserves users states across page requests.
Cookie Name: ads/ga-audiences
Provider: Google
Purpose: To store information for remarketing purposes
Cookie name: initialTrafficSource
Provider: https://wp.propcert.co.uk/
Purpose: Registers how the user has reached the website to enable pay-out of referral commission fees to partners.
Cookie name: Optimizely_data$$first_session
Provider: optimizely.com
Purpose: Targeted advertising
Cookie name: zte#
Provider: Co.uk
Purpose: Saves a Zopim Live Chat ID that recognizes a device between visits during a chat session
Cookie name: _ga
Provider: Co.uk
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Cookie name: secure_propcert_session
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Secure user session management
Cookie name: XSRF-TOKEN
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Cross-site request forgery protection
Cookie name: cc_cookie
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Cookie consent preferences storage
Cookie name: moove_gdpr_popup
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: GDPR compliance popup preferences
Cookie name: propcert-_zldp
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Property certificate identification
Cookie name: propcert-_zldt
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Property certificate timestamp data
Cookie name: PHPSESSID
Provider: ResponseIQ
Purpose: Third-party service session management
Cookie name: _ga_C8TDRRNYD5
Provider: Google Analytics 4
Purpose: Enhanced user tracking & measurement
Cookie name: _ga_MMDLVE5ZTE
Provider: Google Analytics 4
Purpose: Enhanced user tracking & measurement (secondary property)
Cookie name: _gat_UA-38994955-2
Provider: Google Analytics
Purpose: Rate limiting for Google Analytics requests
Cookie name: _gid
Provider: Google Analytics
Purpose: Distinguishes users for 24-hour period
Cookie name: _gcl_au
Provider: Google Ads Conversion Linker
Purpose: Google Ads conversion tracking
Cookie name: _clck
Provider: Microsoft Clarity
Purpose: Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences
Cookie name: _clsk
Provider: Microsoft Clarity
Purpose: Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording
Cookie name: CLID
Provider: Microsoft Clarity
Purpose: Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity
Cookie name: ANONCHK
Provider: Microsoft Clarity
Purpose: Indicates whether anonymous data collection is enabled
Cookie name: SM
Provider: Microsoft Clarity
Purpose: Synchronizes user ID across Microsoft Clarity sessions
Cookie name: __gtm_referrer
Provider: Google Tag Manager
Purpose: Tracks referrer information for analytics
Cookie name: __utmzzses
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: Custom session tracking
Cookie name: tracker_hash
Provider: propcert.co.uk
Purpose: User tracking & behavior analysis
Cookie name: __cf_bm
Provider: Cloudflare
Purpose: Bot management and security protection
Cookie name: __cf_bm
Provider: Cloudflare (NitroPack)
Purpose: Bot management for performance optimization service
Cookie name: __cf_bm
Provider: Cloudflare (NitroCDN)
Purpose: Bot management for content delivery network
Cookie name: MUID
Provider: Microsoft/Bing
Purpose: Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites
Cookie name: MUID
Provider: Microsoft Clarity
Purpose: Machine identifier for Microsoft Clarity analytics
Cookie name: MR
Provider: Microsoft/Bing
Purpose: Bing advertising & remarketing tracking
Cookie name: SRM_B
Provider: Microsoft/Bing
Purpose: Bing Search Result Manager
Cookie name: test_cookie
Provider: Google DoubleClick
Purpose: Tests whether cookies can be set for advertising purposes
Cookie name: riq_cookie_widget_id_5186
Provider: ResponseIQ
Purpose: ResponseIQ widget configuration
Cookie name: zalb_b3e783bb62
Provider: Zoho
Purpose: Zoho load balancer & server routing
Cookie name: nitroCachedPage
Provider: NitroPack
Purpose: Indicates cached page optimization status
