Cookie Policy

Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to use a shopping cart or make use of our order process.
• Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Name	Purpose	More information
Targeting Cookies	Hotjar _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	This cookie enables us to: (a) Estimate our audience size and usage pattern. (b) Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our Website and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.	This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
Targeting Cookies	Hotjar _hjid	This cookie enables us to: (a) Estimate our audience size and usage pattern. (b) Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our Website and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.	This cookie is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
Analytical/performance cookies	Google Analytics _ga_7SJYQ020FP _ga	These cookie enable us to: (a) Estimate our audience size and usage pattern; and (b) Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our Website and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.	These cookies are used to distinguish users.
Functionality cookies	Wordfence wfwaf-authcookie-[hash]	This cookie enables us to: (a) Recognise you when you return to our Website; (b) Store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our Website and to provide you with offers that are targeted at your individual interests.	This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. This cookie allows the Wordfence firewall to detect logged in users and allow them increased access. It also allows Wordfence to detect non-logged in users and restrict their access to secure areas.
Functionality cookies	WordPress wordpress_logged_in_[hash]	This cookie enables us to recognise you when you return to our Website.	This cookie is used to indicate when you are logged in, and who you are.
	WordPress wordpress_test_cookie	This cookie is essential for our Website.	This cookie is used to check if the cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users.
Functionality cookies and strictly necessary cookies	WordPress wp-settings-time-2 wp-settings-2 pvisitor	These cookies are essential for our Website.	These cookies are used to customize the view of admin interface and are generic browser cookies.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Some of the third party cookies are listed below, and we may change these from time to time and will do our best to keep this list updated.

• Please note we have no control over third parties or how they set their own cookies.

You may change your website browser setting to withdraw consent and reject cookies or manage your cookie preferences at any time. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You may 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 essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.

For further information about cookies and how to disable cookies depending on your web browser please see the UK Information Commissioner’s Office guidance which can be found at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/.

please contact us by emailing enquiries@hilltop-countryhouse.com if you have any questions about this Cookie Policy