The West Group - Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies (also called HTTP cookies, web cookies, Internet cookies, or browser cookies) are small blocks of data created while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or device by their web browser. More than one cookie may be placed on a user’s device during a session and these help the website remember you and how you've used the site every time you come back.

For more information on cookies, visit all aboutcookies.org or aboutcookies.org/.

What Types Of Cookies Do We Use?

Necessary - Cookies that are essential to provide you with the service you have requested such as this website.

Analytics - Cookies that are used by online services to collect information about how people access them – such as, the number of users on a website, how long they stay on the site for, and what parts of the site they visit.

Account related cookies - If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

Login related cookies - We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

How We Use Cookies

We may use cookies where appropriate to assist us in improving our website. We may gather information about your general internet use by using the cookie. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer’s hard drive. Such information will not identify you personally. It is statistical data. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Third Party Cookies

We may use cookies where appropriate to assist us in improving our website. We may gather information about your general internet use by using the cookie. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer’s hard drive. Such information will not identify you personally. It is statistical data. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever. In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

The site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

How To Manage Cookies

You can adjust the settings on your computer to decline any cookies if you wish. This can easily be done by activating the reject cookies setting on your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from being able to use the website to its fullest.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, before clicking ‘Accept and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. Learn about managing cookies on popular browsers.