Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Aspgate Limited (“Aspgate”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit aspgate.co.uk.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

Aspgate Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 12099138.

Registered office:
Suite 8, Sopwith House
Sopwith Crescent
Wickford
Essex
SS11 8YU

Email: enquiries@aspgate.co.uk
Telephone: 0330 390 6888

  1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of information that websites can store on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit them.

Cookies can be used for a number of purposes, including:

  • Making a website function correctly
  • Remembering choices or preferences
  • Maintaining security
  • Understanding how visitors use a website
  • Measuring website performance
  • Improving website content and functionality
  • Supporting marketing or advertising activities

Some cookies only remain on your device while your browser is open, while others remain for a specified period or until they are deleted.

Similar technologies, such as scripts, tags, pixels, local storage and other storage or access technologies, may perform similar functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.

  1. How Aspgate uses cookies

Aspgate may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Ensure our website operates correctly
  • Keep the website secure
  • Remember your cookie preferences
  • Understand how visitors interact with our website
  • Identify technical or performance issues
  • Improve the content and usability of the website
  • Understand which pages and services are of most interest to visitors
  • Measure the effectiveness of our marketing activity

The cookies used may change from time to time as our website, technology and suppliers change.

  1. Types of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to operate or to provide functionality requested by you.

They may be used for purposes such as:

  • Website security
  • Network management
  • Maintaining sessions
  • Remembering privacy or cookie choices
  • Providing functionality specifically requested by a visitor
  • Preventing fraudulent or malicious activity

Because these technologies are necessary for the relevant website or service functionality, they may not require your consent where an applicable legal exemption applies.

Disabling these cookies through your browser may result in parts of the website not functioning correctly.

Analytics and performance cookies

These technologies help us understand how visitors use our website.

They may collect information such as:

  • Pages visited
  • Length of time spent on the website
  • How visitors reached the website
  • General interaction with pages
  • Technical errors
  • Browser and device information
  • Approximate geographical information

We use this information to understand website performance and improve the experience we provide.

Where consent is required, analytics and performance technologies will only be used after you have given your consent.

Where an applicable legal exemption allows particular statistical technologies to be used without consent, we will only rely on that exemption where its requirements are satisfied.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies allow the website to provide enhanced functionality or remember choices that you make.

For example, they may remember preferences or support functionality provided by third-party services embedded within our website.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, we will obtain consent before using them where required by law.

Marketing and advertising cookies

We may use marketing technologies to understand the effectiveness of advertising or marketing campaigns and, where applicable, to provide more relevant advertising.

These technologies may be provided by third-party advertising or social media platforms.

They may be able to recognise your device across different websites or services.

Where consent is required, marketing and advertising technologies will not be activated until you have provided your consent.

  1. First-party and third-party cookies

Cookies may be either first-party or third-party.

First-party cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by Aspgate or through the aspgate.co.uk domain.

These are generally used to operate the website, remember preferences or collect information about website use.

Third-party cookies

Some functionality on our website may be provided by other organisations.

These organisations may place or access cookies or similar technologies when you use the relevant functionality.

Examples may include providers of:

  • Website analytics
  • Embedded media
  • Maps
  • Security services
  • Social media functionality
  • Advertising or campaign measurement
  • Website forms or integrations

Where third-party technologies require consent, they will only be activated after the required consent has been provided.

Third parties are responsible for the personal information they process for their own purposes and may provide their own privacy and cookie information.

  1. Cookies currently in use

The specific cookies and similar technologies used by our website may change as we update our website and the services that support it.

Where available, our Cookie Settings or cookie consent tool provides details of the cookies currently detected or configured on the website, including information such as:

  • Cookie or technology name
  • Provider
  • Purpose
  • Category
  • Duration or expiry period

This information should be used alongside this Cookie Policy.

We periodically review the technologies used by our website to ensure that the information we provide remains accurate.

  1. Your cookie choices

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with options to manage the use of cookies and similar technologies.

Depending on the technologies in use, you may be able to:

  • Accept cookies
  • Reject non-essential cookies
  • Choose which categories of cookies you allow
  • Change your preferences later

Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from accessing the core content of our website, although some optional functionality may not operate as intended.

Strictly necessary technologies may continue to operate where they are required for the website or requested functionality.

  1. Changing or withdrawing your consent

Where we rely on your consent, you can change your preferences or withdraw that consent at any time.

Where a Cookie Settings or similar control is available on our website, you can use it to review and change your choices.

You can also delete cookies that have already been stored through your browser settings.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any use that took place before consent was withdrawn.

  1. Browser controls

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

  • View stored cookies
  • Delete individual cookies
  • Delete all cookies
  • Block cookies from particular websites
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Prevent cookies from being stored

The method for doing this varies depending on the browser and device you use.

Blocking all cookies may affect the operation of websites and could prevent certain features from working correctly.

  1. Analytics

We may use analytics services to help us understand how our website is being used and how it can be improved.

Analytics information may include details such as:

  • Pages viewed
  • Approximate visit duration
  • Device and browser information
  • Referral source
  • General website interactions
  • Approximate location derived from technical information

We use this information to identify trends and improve our website and services rather than to directly identify individual visitors.

Where the use of analytics technologies requires consent, they will not be activated until that consent has been provided.

  1. Embedded and third-party content

Our website may contain or embed content provided by third parties.

This may include content such as:

  • Videos
  • Maps
  • Social media content
  • External forms
  • Third-party applications or services

When you interact with this content, the relevant provider may use cookies or similar technologies.

Where these technologies are not exempt from the requirement for consent, we will take appropriate steps to prevent them from being activated before the required consent is obtained.

We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie information provided by the relevant third party for further information about how they process information.

  1. How long cookies remain on your device

The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie and its purpose.

Cookies may be:

Session cookies
These normally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies
These remain on your device for a specified period or until they are manually deleted.

We aim to ensure that cookies and similar technologies are not retained for longer than reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.

Where a cookie consent or settings tool provides the duration of individual cookies, this should be referred to for the most current information.

  1. Personal information collected through cookies

Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of information that constitutes personal information.

This could include information such as:

  • IP addresses
  • Device identifiers
  • Online identifiers
  • Website interactions
  • Browser information

Where personal information is processed, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law.

Our Privacy Policy provides more information about:

  • Why we process personal information
  • Our lawful bases
  • Who we share information with
  • International transfers
  • How long information is retained
  • Your data protection rights
  1. International processing

Some third-party technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where this involves the transfer of personal information internationally, appropriate safeguards will be used where required in accordance with applicable data protection law.

For further information, please see our Privacy Policy.

  1. Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:

  • Changes to our website
  • New or removed technologies
  • Changes to third-party providers
  • Changes to how we use cookies
  • Changes to legal or regulatory requirements

The latest version will be published on our website and the Last updated date will be amended accordingly.

  1. Contact us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact:

Aspgate Limited
Suite 8, Sopwith House
Sopwith Crescent
Wickford
Essex
SS11 8YU

Email: enquiries@aspgate.co.uk
Telephone: 0330 390 6888

For more information about how Aspgate handles personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.