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Cookie Policy

This policy explains how this website uses cookies and similar technologies. The site is operated by Ridgefield Services Limited, 29 Mill Place, Woodley, Reading, England. Questions can be sent to [email protected].

Operator: Ridgefield Services Limited
Policy scope: This website and every page on it
Contact: [email protected]
Last reviewed: November 2026

What cookies are

A cookie is a small file that a website stores on your device. Cookies allow a site to remember information between page loads, such as a preference or a session state. Similar technologies, including local storage, work in a comparable way and are covered by this policy.

In practice, a cookie is not a program and cannot run on your device on its own. It is a name and a value that the browser sends back to the site that set it. Local storage and session storage behave in much the same way: the browser keeps a short piece of data, and the page can read it again on a later visit. When this policy says "cookie", it covers those other browser-storage methods as well.

Cookies are normally grouped by how long they last and who set them. A session cookie is cleared when you close the browser. A persistent cookie stays until its expiry date or until you delete it. A first-party cookie belongs to this site; a third-party cookie comes from a service the page has loaded, and is described in its own section below.

How this site uses cookies

This site is a static informational website. It does not run advertising networks, and it does not build profiles of visitors for marketing purposes.

Cookies and similar storage may be used for essential functions: keeping a form session valid, recording a cookie preference, and protecting the site against abusive requests. Server logs record technical details such as IP address, browser type and pages requested, which help us keep the site working and diagnose faults.

What is stored, and why

01 A form session — keeps an enquiry in progress so a submit does not fail

02 A cookie preference — remembers your answer so you are not asked on every page

03 Abuse protection — flags repeated automated requests so the site stays reachable

04 Server logs on our side — IP address, browser type, pages requested, kept for fault diagnosis

Essential storage is limited to keeping the site usable. Blocking it in your browser may stop the enquiry form from working as intended.

Analytics

If analytics is used on this site, it is configured to measure aggregate visitor behaviour, such as which pages are read and how visitors arrive. Analytics data is used to understand whether the site is useful. It is not used to identify individuals or to serve advertising.

Aggregate reporting answers questions like which service pages get read most, and which pages send visitors away early. No individual session is reconstructed from it, and no advertising profile is assembled from it. Where a provider is used, it is configured so that visitor IP addresses are not stored in full.

Third-party cookies

Some pages embed content or services provided by third parties, such as a map or a font service. Those providers may set their own cookies. We do not control those cookies, and their use is governed by the provider's own policy. You can block them in your browser settings if you prefer.

If a page on this site loads a map, a typeface from an external font host, or an embedded video, that request goes to the provider directly, and the provider can see the request has come from this site. If you would rather that did not happen, blocking third-party cookies and third-party requests in your browser is the simplest route, and blocking them does not affect anything else on this page.

Managing cookies

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers let you block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, or delete cookies already stored. Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of this site, such as the enquiry form, from working as intended.

Every current browser keeps its cookie controls in its own settings area, usually under a privacy or security heading. None of those settings are set by this site, and this site cannot read or clear what your browser holds on your behalf. Deleting stored cookies takes effect for the pages you load next; a site that needs a preference set again will simply ask for it a second time.

Changes to this policy

If our use of cookies changes, this page will be updated with a revised date. The current version applies to your use of the site from the date of publication.

The review date sits at the head of this page, and it changes only when the way this website handles cookies changes. Where a change affects a stored preference or an active form session, browsers will simply ask you to set a fresh preference the next time you use the site.

Where to go next

This page answers the cookie question on its own. If you came here from somewhere else on the site, the three destinations below are the ones most visitors pick next.