Cookie and privacy policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are a specific technology that store information between website visits.

Cookies are small pieces of information, normally consisting of just letters and numbers, which online services provide when users visit them. Software on the user’s device (for example a web browser) can store cookies and send them back to the website next time they visit.

Cookies can be useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. 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.

How we use cookies

The Building Control Partnership website uses two kinds of cookies.

We use some necessary cookies that are there to enable the website to function.

We also use optional cookies which help us understand how our customers use our website. This helps us to make on-going improvements to the user experience on our website.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable necessary cookies by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

The Building Control Partnership website uses necessary cookies to remember a user’s choices about accepting cookies on our website.

Cookie name	Purpose
CookieLawInfoConsent	These cookies remember a user’s choices about accepting cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	These cookies remember a user’s choices about accepting cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
viewed_cookie_policy	These cookies remember a user’s choices about accepting cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.

Optional Cookies

When you first visit the Building Control Partnership website, you will be asked if you want to accept optional cookies, or view cookie settings.

In cookie settings, you can select whether you want to accept or not accept cookies and submit your preferences.

Until you provide consent to use cookies on the website, optional cookies will not be activated. You can continue to navigate the website without submitting your preference, and not accepting cookies won’t affect your experience across the website.

The Building Control Partnership website uses the following optional cookies.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track page visits, how our users navigate through the website, and information about where traffic comes from. This information helps us to improve the user experience.

Google Analytics processes anonymised information on:

a page a user visits
how long the user spends on each page
how the user got to the site
what the user clicks on while visiting the site

We do not store your personal information through Google Analytics (for example your name or address). We will not identify you through analytics information, and we will not combine analytics information with other data sets in a way that would identify who you are.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration
_ga	Used to distinguish users	2 years
_gid	Used to distinguish users	24 hours
_gat	Used to throttle the request rate	1 minute
_gaexp	Used to determine a user’s inclusion in an A/B split test	90 days

Session cookies

Session cookies allow websites to recognise and link the actions of a user during a browsing session.

These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you have left the site. This information is not stored after you have left our site.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

You can also opt out of tracking by Google Analytics across all websites.