Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by SPB UK & Ireland. They are widely used by most websites to record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor our website to your interests. 

We use them to collect anonymous information about you and your actions online.
You can change your cookie settings at any time and have the ability to allow all cookies, or receive a notification of when one is issued, or to block cookies altogether.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Google Analytics

_ga
_gid
_gat

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Hubspot

hubspotutk
__hsscr
__hstc
__hssrc

We use Hubspot to help us keep track of the pages you visit on our site to help us determine what services you may be interested in. Hubspot also collects any data you enter on our website forms which is then passed into our CRM provider.

GRECAPTCHA

_GRECAPTCHA

Used by Google reCAPTCHA to distinguish between human users and robots.

Cloudflare

__cf_bm
_cfuvid

A Cloudflare cookie used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings per client.

CookieControl

CookieControl

This cookie is associated with the CookieControl service, used to manage cookie consent on a website. It records the user's consent status regarding the use of cookies on the platform.

Azure

ARRAffinity
ARRAffinitySameSite

Used with Azure services to ensure that a user's requests are always directed to the same server instance in a web application.

How to change cookie settings

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers by clicking on the links below.

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge

Mozilla Firefox

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Opera

Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites. Do this by clicking here.