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.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies.These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- 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.
- Functionality cookies.These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies.These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie |
Domain |
Description |
Duration |
Type |
__utma |
.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
1 years 11 months 28 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Performance |
__utmc |
.sorbonestates.com |
The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. The cookie is not used by ga.js. The cookie is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js which is an older version of Google analytics and used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits. |
Session |
Performance |
__utmz |
.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is set by Google analytics and is used to store the traffic source or campaign through which the visitor reached your site. |
5 months 29 days 11 hours 59 minutes |
Performance |
__utmt |
.sorbonestates.com |
The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to throttle request rate. |
9 minutes |
Performance |
__utmb |
.sorbonestates.com |
The cookie is set by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
29 minutes |
Performance |
_ga |
.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
1 years 11 months 28 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Analytics |
_gid |
.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. |
23 hours 59 minutes |
Analytics |
_gat_UA-53564767-1 |
.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. |
10 minutes |
Other |
_hjTLDTest |
.sorbonestates.com |
When the Hotjar script executes Hotjar try to determine the most generic cookie path it should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, Hotjar try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. Please refer to https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information for further information. |
Session |
Other |
_hjid |
.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. Please refer to https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information for further information. |
11 months 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Other |
_hjFirstSeen |
.sorbonestates.com |
This is set to identify a new user's first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. Please refer to https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011789248-Hotjar-Cookie-Information for further information. |
29 minutes |
Other |
__atuvc |
www.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
1 years 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Functional |
__atuvs |
www.sorbonestates.com |
This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. |
29 minutes |
Functional |
uvc |
.addthis.com |
The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service. |
1 years 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes |
Analytics |
Please note that we have no control over the cookies used by the third parties set out above. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Most browsers are initially configured to accept cookies by default. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies or to indicate when a third-party cookie is being sent. Check your browser's 'help' files to learn more about handling cookies.
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.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire as set out in the table above.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact:
Data Privacy Team - Shanly
Group,
24-26 Aylesbury End
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
HP9 1LW
Email address: dataprivacy@shanlygroup.com
Telephone number: 01494 671331