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SIGMA HOMES
COOKIE POLICY AND MANAGING COOKIES

1. USE OF COOKIES BY SIGMA HOMES

1.1 Our website (“Site”) uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers put on your computer or the device that you use to access our Site. Cookies have many uses, for example to distinguish you from other users of the Site which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Site and allows us to improve the Site.

1.2 Some cookies are necessary for our Site to work and others remember things about you to give you a better, more enjoyable online experience. They may also help us to create content, advertise our products and services, and personalise our offers to you.

1.3 Below you will find more details about what each type of cookie set by our Site is and what it does. You will also see us talk about whether a cookie is first party or third party, and if it’s a session or persistent cookie or a time limited cookie.

1.4 First party cookies are created directly by our Site, whilst third party cookies are created by other organisations, and are typically used for tracking and advertising across different websites.

1.5 Session cookies are temporary and will be deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies are saved within your browser and are only deleted if you clear your browsing data yourself and time limited cookies will expire and be deleted when they reach their expiry date, usually a certain time period after they are first set.

2. CONSENTING TO COOKIES

2.1 When you first visit our Site, you are given a choice whether some of your cookie settings are turned on or off. These settings will then be remembered for future visits to our Site, though if you have cleared out cookies in your browser you will be asked to consent to cookies again when you next visit our Site. Also the cookie that remembers your settings will expire after a certain period, and if you revisit our website after it has expired you will need to reselect your cookie preferences.

2.2 If you ever want to change those cookie settings at any time, all you need to do is click the link in the cookie list below to update them. Whatever settings you choose, necessary cookies will stay on. Turning some cookies off might affect your browsing experience, so to avoid that we would suggest consenting to all cookies and making sure that all cookies are enabled in your browser settings.

2.3 When you visit the Site and consent to cookies, the cookies with the functions set out below may be downloaded to and set on your device. At the current time we only set necessary cookies, functional cookies, analytical cookies and advertising cookie from our Site, but this may change in the future.

  • 2.3.1 Necessary Cookies
    These are cookies that are required for the administration and operation of the Site. Some cookies that we use are necessary for the Site to function properly and to enable you to move around the Site and use its features.
  • 2.3.2 Functional Cookies
    We may use functional cookies that allow us to remember choices you have made on the Site to provide you with a more enhanced user experience by delivering content specific to your interests. We may also use cookies to embed certain social posts on the Site.
  • 2.3.3 Analytical Cookies (Visit Tracking)
    We may use third party analytics service providers for website traffic analysis and reporting. Third party analytics service providers generate statistical and other information about the use of the Site by using third party cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how often visitors return to the Site, how long they stay and how visitors move around the Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the Site, for example, it helps users to find what they are looking for easily. The information generated relating to the Site may be used to create reports about the use of the Site and the third-party analytics service provider will store this information.
  • 2.3.4 Advertising Cookies
    These cookies record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed to other sites or apps and the types of pages you may have visited. This information is used to try and make the Site (and other sites or apps that you visit) more relevant to your interests. This information may be shared with others and will be why you might see advertising on a website relating to products/services from another website you have visited previously.

    We may use advertising cookies to build a profile for you and collect information about your browsing habits to show you advertisements relevant and personalised to your interests, including remarketing on other websites, based on the products and services you've viewed.

2.4 Do we use any third-party cookies?

  • 2.4.1 The following third parties may set cookies from our Site:

    • Google
    • Maps
    • YouTube
    • Facebook
    • Matterport
    • Vimeo
    • Microsoft
  • 2.4.2 We use Google Analytics on our Site, which helps us measure how users interact with our website content. As a user navigates between web pages on our Site, Google Analytics uses JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page. The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP cookies to "remember" what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with our Site. Google Analytics supports three JavaScript libraries (tags) for measuring website usage: (gtag.js, analytics.js and ga.js). The Google Analytics cookies we use are set out below in section 3. More details about Google Analytics cookies and privacy can be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US.
  • 2.4.3 Other sites and services (including, for example, advertising networks, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services, search engines and content recommendation engines) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or advertising cookies.

4. OTHER WAYS TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIES

4.1 You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including necessary cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts of our Site.

4.2 To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them from your device, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

5. GENERAL

5.1 We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our Site after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.

5.2 In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the current version in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

5.3 If you would like to know more about how we use Cookies, please contact our Data Protection Compliance Manager (DPCM) for further information at privacy@sigmahomesgroup.co.uk or write to DPCM, Sigma Homes Limited, 44-46 Springfield Road, Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 2PD or telephone 0203 019 0740.