Explaining cookies on our website

When you visit our Website we issue a "cookie" file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information. Cookies enable us to: improve the use of our Website; to recognise your computer; to store settings to help facilitate your use of our Website; and to deliver a better and more personalised service.

Some of the cookies we use are essential for the Website to operate and have already been set. You may delete and block all or some cookies from this Website. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our Website.

Why we use cookies

We use cookies for 2 purposes:

1. To enable the delivery of functionality that improves the ease and speed of using the Website (see above).
2. To enable us to track the relative popularity of our web sire using Google Analytics.

Third Party Cookies

We also use third party cookies on our Website for various purposes, as detailed below:

• Google Analytics This is a tool that we use to better understand how people are using our website. It is also used by Google to better understand the performance of its own websites. What information are they tracking? The Google Analytics cookie enables our website to recognise you if you visit again - as well as information about the pages you visit; when you visit; how long you visit our website; the IP address and what site you were looking at before arriving at our site (the referring url). See more information on Google Analytics Cookies

For further information on cookies or for details on how to delete them or refuse their installation on your computer, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/

Marketing (22)

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

List of cookies used on our site: PHPSESSID

Company	3rd Party Generated Cookie	Cookie Name	Cookie Type	Purpose / How we use
Google	Y	_ga	Persistent	Google analytics
Google	Y	_gat_gtag_UA_33024388_1	Persistent	Google analytics
Google	Y	_gid	Persistent	Google analytics
Facebook	Y	_fbp	Persistent	This cookie is used to provide you with more relevant advertising across Facebook.
Facebook	Y	fr	Persistent	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products.
Blackhurst Garages	N	PHPSESSID	Session	Keeps track of your session on the web site and is cleared once the browser is closed.
Blackhurst Garages	N	showCookieMsg	Persistent	Whether or not to show the cookie message when you visit site. Stored for one year.