Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
McWhirter use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to our customers needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Cookies help us to provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer, however this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Note: They have absolutley nothing to do with the cookie monster.
Cookie policy
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 | Set by | Validity | Purpose |
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ASPSESSIONID* | McWhirter | Session | Stores temporary information to enable site functionality. This cookie cannot be disabled. |
allowcookies allowcookiesdate |
McWhirter McWhirter |
1 year 1 year |
Remembers your cookie preferences and the date that you changed your cookie preferences, if we modify our policy after this date we will notify you of this date we will notify you of the change. These cookies cannot be disabled. |
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McWhirter McWhirter McWhirter McWhirter |
2 years 30 Minutes Session 6 Months |
Google Analytics tracking, these cookies are used to __utmb McWhirter 30 Minutes track the popularity of certain pages on our website __utmc McWhirter Session as well as where you came from. None of this information is personally identifiable and will not be passed on to any third parties. You can disable these cookies. Please see Google Analytics policy for more information. |
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Google |
Session 2 years 6 months |
Google Maps tracking, these cookies are used by Google to track how their maps are used. You can disable these cookies, however doing so may cause our interactive map to not work correctly. Please see Googles policy for more information. |
Web Beacon | McWhirter | N/A | This allows us to determine which browsers are used to browse our website and what the size of your browser window is, by collecting this information we can determine which browsers and screen sizes to optimize our site for. You can disable this web beacon. |