Charles Douglas Homes Cookie Policy

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 website. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

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 device’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. These cookies expire after a browser session is closed.

  • Analytical/performance cookies. They 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. These cookies expire after a browser session is closed.

  • 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). These cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions which allows this information to be remembered.

  • 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 and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with our third party media agency for this purpose. These cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions which allows this information to be remembered.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

squarespace-announcement-bar Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it Persistent
squarespace-popup-overlay Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it Persistent
ss_cookieAllowed Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies 30 days
ss_sd Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.
Session
Test Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors. Session
ss_cid Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site 2 years
ss_cpvisit Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site 2 years
ss_cvisit Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site 30 minutes
ss_cvr Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site 2 years
ss_cvt Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site 30 minutes
_utma Google writes this cookie to your browser on your first visit to our site. This cookie is then used by google analytics to record the unique visitors that Kellen Homes has to its site and the frequency of views each page has. 2 years
__utmb Google uses __utmb to establish and follow your session and interaction with Kellen Homes The cookie will expire if you spent more than half an hour on one page within the site without refreshing, otherwise the cookie expiry period is re-set back to 30 minutes each time you move onto a new page. 30 minutes
__utmc Google Analytics Java Script previously used __utmc to define a session status. Not set
__utmz Google uses __utmz to determine and store information on where you originated to our site from. This cookie distinguished whether this was via direct url input, organic search or paid media. 6 months
ASP.NET_SessionID This cookie holds session data temporarily, containing no personally identifiable information from yourself. Once a user closes their browser the data stored in ASP.NET_SessionID will be cleared. Exit of browser

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are set by a website other than the one being visited by you. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

All cookies which do not expire once a browser session is closed will expire after 90 days.