This website www.barques.co.uk (‘Our Site’) uses Cookies and similar techniques in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it.
Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you press the ‘accept’ button on Our Cookie pop-up.
If you do not agree to our Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.
A cookie is a small text file which is placed on your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. We use this usage information to make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable. Cookies are also sometimes used to gather general anonymous visitor data, which helps us improve our website.
The site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to our use of cookies and other similar technologies as described in this Cookie Policy. If you change your mind in the future about letting us use cookies, you can modify the settings of your browser to reject cookies or disable cookies completely.
We work with third-party suppliers who may also set cookies on our website. YouTube and Vimeo which we use to display video content. These third-party suppliers are responsible for the cookies they set on our site, if you want further information please go the website for the relevant third party. You will find additional information in the table below.
We currently use the following cookies, the purpose of each type is explained below:
Name of cookie: Google Analytics.
Owner: Google Inc
Purpose for cookie: This is a web analytics service provided by Google. Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our site, and how we can enhance their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (eg how long they stayed on the site, the average number of pages viewed) and tells us how many visitors we have had.
Name of cookie: Google Tag Manager.
Owner: Google Inc
Purpose for cookie: This is a separate tool from Google Analytics and offers user-friendly solution to managing tags or snippets of JavaScript that send information to third-parties, our website or mobile app by consolidating marketing and analytics information via Google’s intuitive interface as well as other useful features. This allows us to efficiently optimise our website data following receipt visitor browsing information.
Name of cookie: Hotjar.
Owner: Hotjar Limited
Purpose for cookie: This tracks visitor activity to enable us to improve our website by understanding visitor behaviour by improving user experience by avoiding repetition of tasks by retaining a record of certain visitor activities as well as enabling us to conduct surveys to help us to identify improvements to our website and our services.
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