{"id":13355,"date":"2024-12-19T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsoffourhills.co.uk\/site\/?page_id=13355"},"modified":"2024-12-19T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:47:52","slug":"what-cookies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/handsoffourhills.co.uk\/site\/what-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Cookies and What They Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Introduction to Cookies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Cookies are small text files stored on your device by the websites you visit. They play a vital role in ensuring websites function efficiently, improving your browsing experience, and providing useful insights to website owners. Cookies can remember your preferences, enable essential features, and collect data for analytics or marketing. While some cookies are necessary for a website to operate correctly, others are optional and require your consent.<\/p>\n<p>At Hands Off Our Hills, we use <em><strong>9 cookies<\/strong><\/em> on our website, all of which are classified as \u2018necessary and safe.\u2019 These cookies ensure you can browse our site and contact us without encountering any unwanted issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For complete transparency, we have detailed the eight cookies below, along with clear explanations of their purposes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>1. Cookie Consent (HOOH &#8211; UK)<\/h5>\n<p>Stores the user&#8217;s cookie consent state for Hands Off Our Hills, this is the pop up which appears the first time you visit our website.\u00a0 This is the most vital cookie, as it allows you to either accept our cookie policy and or not.<\/p>\n<h5>2, 3 and 4.\u00a0 _GRECAPTCHA (Google &#8211; USA)<\/h5>\n<p>This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website, and prevent bots from submitting spam via our contact or newsletter forms.<\/p>\n<p>As there are 3 forms on our website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact Us<\/li>\n<li>Newsletter Signup<\/li>\n<li>Press Contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This cookie is being used 3 times on our website.<\/p>\n<h5>5. wpEmojiSettingsSupports (HOOH &#8211; UK\/Germany)<\/h5>\n<p>This cookie is part of a bundle of cookies which serve the purpose of content delivery and presentation. The cookies keep the correct state of font, blog\/picture sliders, color themes and other website settings. This cookie uses a Javascript which orginates from Germany, but is served by HOOH from the United Kingdom by our servers.<\/p>\n<h5>6. rc::a (Google &#8211; USA)<\/h5>\n<p>This cookie is also used along with _GRECAPTCHA to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.<\/p>\n<h5>7. rc::b (Google -USA)<\/h5>\n<p>This cookie is also used along with _GRECAPTCHA to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.<\/p>\n<h5>8. rc::c (Google &#8211; USA)<\/h5>\n<p>This cookie is also used along with _GRECAPTCHA to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.<\/p>\n<h5>9. rc::f (Google &#8211; USA)<\/h5>\n<p>This cookie is also used along with _GRECAPTCHA to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you require further information about the cookies we use on our website then please contact us at: <a href=\"mailto:privacy@handsoffourhills.co.uk\">privacy@handsoffourhills.co.uk<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] Introduction to Cookies Cookies are small text files stored on your device by the websites you visit. They play a vital role in ensuring websites function efficiently, improving your browsing experience, and providing useful insights to website owners. Cookies can remember your preferences, enable essential features, and collect data for analytics or marketing. 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