Cookie Policy

Introduction

This website www.mereendconsultants.co.uk (the “Site”) is operated by Mere End Consultants Ltd. of 2 Mere End Barn, Heathend Farm, Hassall Road, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2SJ, also referred to in this Cookies Statement as “we” or “us” or “our”. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Cookies Statement should be read together with our Privacy Statement and Terms of Use and explains what cookies are and how and why they may be stored on and access from your device when you access this Site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing a small amount of data, usually a unique string of letters and numbers. They commonly used throughout the Internet and are stored on and accessed from your device when you visit a website (including this Site). This allows the website to recognise your visit from those of other users of the website. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

How does this Site use cookies?

This Site uses the following cookies for the following purposes:

Cookie Name	Cookie Category	Description	Duration
wordpress_	2	WordPress cookie for a logged in user.	session
wordpress_logged_in_	2	WordPress cookie for a logged in user	session
wordpress_test_	2	WordPress cookie for a logged in user	session
wordpress_test_cookie	2	WordPress test cookie	session
wp-settings-	1	Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.	1 year
wp-settings-time-	2	Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.	1 year
PHPSESSID	1	To identify your unique session on the website	session
SESS	1	To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered.	session

Combining the cookie information with other data about your computer

When you enter the Site, we may also collect information, where available, about your computer for system administration purposes, such as your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information may be combined with the data we collected via the Google Analytics cookies above. This information is statistical data about our users’ browsing patterns and generally does not identify our users.

Your consent to the use of cookies

By using this Site, you agree that we can store and access the above cookies on your device.

Refusing or withdrawing your consent to the use of cookies

You may refuse to accept cookies by altering the settings on your internet browser. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you adjust your internet browser settings to refuse the setting of cookies, you may be unable to access or use fully certain parts or functionality of the Site (such as being unable to complete the online application form on our trainee recruitment area of the Site).

Contact us

If you have any questions or need further information about our cookie practices, please contact us at info@mereendconsultants.co.uk or write to us at 2 Mere End Barn, Heathend Farm, Hassall Road, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2SJ.

This Cookie Statement, the Privacy Statement and/or the Terms of Use may be amended by us at any time. Please check this page periodically to inform yourself of any changes. It was last amended on 20/4/2018.