Cookie Policy
Cookies and the law
As you may be aware the government enacted EU regulations regarding the use of cookies by websites into UK law in May 2011, with a grace period until May 2012 for companies to become compliant. These regulations are designed to protect the privacy of the public when using websites by giving them the ability to prevent cookies being stored on their PC or other web enabled device. We use cookies to improve our website and make it easy to use. Customer safety and data security is very important to us, no cookies set by our website(s) store nor monitor personal and/or confidential data such as name and address. Below we outline the cookies used by our website and their function.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on a computer by visited websites, they are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site, a typical example is the storing of items in a virtual shopping basket prior to checkout.
For more information about cookies (including how to turn them off) please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Ecommerce
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyse how visitors use Thamesbank websites.
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Typical content: randomly generated number.
Expires: 2 years
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Typical content: randomly generated number.
Expires: 30 minutes
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Typical content: randomly generated number and information about how the page was reached (eg directly or via a link, organic search or paid search).
Expires: 6 months
For further details on Google Analytics cookies, including those not used by Thamesbank, visit cookies set by Google Analytics.
