Merlin Architectural Limited – 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 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. 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.
- 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 and the advertising displayed on it 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 Title Cookie Name | Purpose | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager | • Tracking of website page view • Tracking of button clicks • Tracking external links/outbound clicks • Tracking of conversions, such as in Google Ads • Tracking of how a user scrolls and behaves on a page • Collection of user data, such as geolocation, device type and screen width. | |
| Quote Request Form | • Name • Email address • Other data used to create the quote. | This information will not be shared with 3rd parties. |
| Enquiry and Contact Forms completed | • Name • Phone number • Email address • Any message included. | This information will not be shared with 3rd parties. |
| For contact made via our WhatsApp number, we may collect your phone number. | This information will not be shared with 3rd parties. | |
| Website Search | Search data. | |
| PHP | Maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number which can be used to maintain a logged-in status for a user between pages. | |
| Google Analytics | • Persist session state. • Distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. • Store and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. • Limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. • Limit requests (throttle request rate). |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. 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:
- YouTube
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by visiting the cookie banner in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. This will be message in black/green when you first come on the site, and a blue/black cookie icon if the cookies are already set. Only cookie categories that are currently available on the site will appear in the setting options.
However, 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 after 365 days.