Cookie Policy

Last updated: 01/09/2020

Briony Lawson (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on brionylawson.com (the “Service”).

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-­parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-­party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and more efficient. You can find out more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org

The law states that we can store cookies on your machine if they are essential to the operation of this site but that we need your permission before using any other type of cookie.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How ​brionylawson.com uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web Browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

­Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third­-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-­parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

The cookies we use

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

Google Analytics cookies:
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website e.g. which pages visitors go to most often. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor but provide a free web analytics service to website owners.

_ga
Used to distinguish users
Default expiration time: 2 years

_gid
Used to distinguish users
Default expiration time: 24 hours

_gat
Used to throttle request rate
Default expiration time: 1 minute

AMP_TOKEN
Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service
Default expiration time: 30 seconds to 1 year

_gac
Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
Default expiration time: 90 days

What are your choices regarding cookies

When accessing the Service the cookies noted above are automatically added to your computer. You may choose to block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Your consent

By clicking on the “Accept Cookies” tab on the cookie pop-up on our site or my continuing to use the Service, we deem that you have provided your consent to the use of the above named cookies.

Contact us

If you have any queries about your personal information or any questions on our use of the information, please contact us.