Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently and to provide information to website owners.

Cookies can be ‘session cookies’, which expire when you close your browser, or ‘persistent cookies’, which remain on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them.

2. Who We Are

This Cookie Policy applies to the website operated by Cyril Johnston & Co. Ltd (company number NI003426), with registered address at Ballynahinch Road, Carryduff, Belfast, BT8 8DJ.

For questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at: contactcentre@cyriljohnston.com

3. How We Use Cookies

Our Website (cyriljohnston.com) uses cookies to help us understand how visitors interact with our site. We use this information to improve the Website’s performance and user experience.

We use the following categories of cookies:

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the Website to function correctly. They enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The Website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they cannot be disabled.

Examples include cookies that remember your cookie consent preference.

3.2 Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google LLC, which sets cookies to collect anonymised information about how visitors use our Website. This includes:

  • Pages visited and time spent on each page
  • How you arrived at our Website (e.g. via a search engine or direct link)
  • General geographic location (at country or city level — not precise location)
  • Device type and browser used

This data is aggregated and used solely to help us understand usage patterns and improve our Website. It does not identify you personally.

The following Google Analytics cookies may be set on your device:

_ga — Used to distinguish users. Expires after 2 years.

_ga_<container-id> — Used to persist session state. Expires after 2 years.

_gid — Used to distinguish users. Expires after 24 hours.

_gat — Used to throttle request rate. Expires after 1 minute.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please visit: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

4. Third-Party Cookies

Beyond Google Analytics, we do not currently use any other third-party cookies on this Website. We do not use advertising, social media, or marketing cookies.

5. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our Website, you will be shown a cookie consent banner. You may:

  • Accept all cookies, including analytics cookies
  • Reject non-essential cookies (analytics cookies will not be set)
  • Withdraw your consent at any time by adjusting your preferences through our cookie settings

Please note that if you disable or reject cookies, some features of our Website may not function as intended.

6. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

You can also control and delete cookies through your web browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:

  • View what cookies are stored and delete them individually or all at once
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Block cookies from particular websites
  • Block all cookies

For guidance on how to manage cookies in your browser, please visit:

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our Website and many other websites you visit.

7. Opting Out of Google Analytics

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your visit by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

This add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information about your visit with Google Analytics.

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any updates will be published on this page with a revised ‘Last updated’ date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

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