Use of cookies by newgrange.co.uk website
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. 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.
We use 3 sets of cookies: Google Analytics cookies, UK cookie consent cookie, and Google Maps cookies.
Google Analytics Cookies
The Google Analytics cookie provides us with data about visitor usage patterns on our site. It allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. The visitor remains anonymous.
UK Cookie Consent Cookie
The cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies.
Google Maps Cookies
The embedded Google Map on our site sets 3 cookies known as NID, PREF and khcookie. These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | 2 years |
| UK cookie consent plugin | catAccCookies | Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. This cookie is used to stop the Cookie notification displaying each time a new session is opened. | 1 month |
| Google Maps | NID, PREF, khcookie | These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps. | 6 months, 2 years, when you close your browser, respectively |
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