About Us
Stonebridge is a trading name of Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions Limited. Registered office: Regency House, Miles Gray Road, Basildon, Essex, SS14 3FR. Registered in England and Wales under company number 5601592.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Cookie Policy forms part of our legal information and sets out how we use cookies on our website to help make your visits more effective.
Stonebridge Cookie Policy
Our website (https://stonebridgegroup.co.uk/) uses cookies and other similar technologies (referred to together as “cookies” in this policy) 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 site.
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:
- Necessary cookies – These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our website. For example, cookies that help ensure that the content of a page loads quickly and effectively.
- Functionality cookies – These cookies are important for the website to operate, although not strictly necessary. For example, a cookie that remembers a user’s customised language settings
- Analytical or performance cookies – These cookies analyse or predict an individual’s preferences or behaviour. For example, by monitoring a user’s movements around the website.
- Marketing/remarketing cookies – These cookies track and profile users for direct marketing and advertising. For example, a cookie that tracks someone from our website across to a social media website and shows adverts on that user’s social media page relating to our website.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below. You may also wish to refer to our Privacy Policy page for more details about how we look after and use personal data.
First Party Cookies
Necessary
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _hjSessionUser_1641126 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script used to store unique user ID to ensure that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 Year |
| _hjSession_1641126 | A Hotjar cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | 30 Minutes |
| handl_landing_page | To remember the initial page you arrived on for the website. | 1 Month |
| handl_url | The URL of the site which stored the cookie. | 1 Month |
| handl_ip | Records the I.P address in your browser. | 1 month |
| handl_original_ref | The original referring URL.[ | Past |
| handl_ref | The referring URL. | Past |
| gclid | Google Click Identifier is a unique tracking number added to each individual AdWords click to identify from where an individual is entering the site. | Past |
| JSESSIONID | The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. | Session |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. | 1 Year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category . | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". | 1 Year |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". | 11 Months |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other." | 11 Months |
Analytical
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _ga_42QF6S1K8T | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. | 2 Years |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 Years |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 Day |
| _gat_gtag_UA_142187426_1 | Set by Google to distinguish users. | 1 Minute |
| _hjFirstSeen | Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. | 30 Minutes |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's page view limit. | 2 Minutes |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Hotjar sets this cookie to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | 30 Minutes |
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 Months |
Functional
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| utm_medium | This cookie is used to record from where the visitor came to the website originally. This information is used by the website operator to know the efficiency of their marketing. | 20 Minutes |
Marketing
| Cookie Name | Description | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 30 minutes |
Third Party Cookies
Some of the cookies we use are set by third parties. We work with other companies, such as search engine providers, such as Google and Bing, so that we can learn more about our customers, to understand performance and engagement, provide a personalised experience and deliver more relevant advertising. The table below further explains the third-party cookies that are used on our website and their purposes.
To learn more about how these third parties process personal information, to the extent relevant, follow the links in the table below to the third-party privacy notice.
| Cookie Name | What do we use them for? | Cookie Duration | Link to third party privacy notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIDCC | Security cookie to protect users’ data from unauthorised access | The cookie expires 90 days after your last visit to the website. | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| _ gcl_au 1P_JAR CONSENT NID DV | These cookies track browsing habits and activity, and allow us to measure ad performance. This cookie is also used to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language. | The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| ga _gid _ga gat gac AMP_TOKEN __utma __utmt __utmb __utmc __utmz __utmv | These cookies help us to understand website and app traffic and marketing performance. They may be used to create groups of users based on behaviour to improve the efficiency and relevance of our website and advertising. | The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. | https://policies.google.com/privacy |
Cookie Preferences
You can control which types of cookies are set by changing your preferences through our cookie banner when you first visit our website or at any time by clicking here:
Cookies can also be controlled by your web browser settings. Whether our cookies are used will depend on your browser settings, so you are in control. 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 essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website and you will not receive a personalised service.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please use the following links:
- Google Privacy & Terms
- Internet Explorer cookies information
- Chrome cookies information
- Firefox cookies information
- Safari cookies information
Contact us
Questions, comments and requests regarding this policy should be addressed to Compliance@mssl.co.uk or by writing to us at Regency House, Miles Gray Road, Basildon, Essex, SS14 3FR.
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