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Thanks for visiting www.cornwalllawsociety.org.uk (the “site“). This website is operated by The Cornwall Law Society of 2 Wendron Street, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 8PP (“we“, “us” or “our“). We are Cornwall’s independent local Law Society supporting 300 members in the county by providing guidance, CPD Training, marketing, recruitment and social events.

This Cookie Policy (together with our Terms of UsePrivacy Policy and other documents we refer to) apply to your use of the site whether as a guest or a registered member. Use of the site includes accessing, browsing, registering to use or posting on it.

We use cookies on our site. This policy tells you why and how this helps to improve our services. By clicking “Accept” on the Privacy and Cookies Policy banner, or by continuing to browse our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer when you visit our site. They do lots of different and useful jobs, such as remembering your preferences, helping our website to operate effectively and improving the online experience we can offer you.  Cookies can fall into a number of types:

  • Strictly necessary cookies are those essential to enable you to navigate our site and use its features.
  • Session cookies last for the duration of your visit to allow our site to identify that you are navigating from page to page. They also support our site’s security and basic functionality. These cookies are deleted on closing your browser.
  • Persistent cookies allow our site to remember your actions and preferences by lasting after you have closed your browser.
  • Functionality cookies allow our site to remember choices you make, such as your username on the Membership login page.

You can find more information about the specific cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Purpose
Wp-settings-4 Wp-settings-4 user settings
Wp-settings-time-4 Wp-settings-time-4 records the time that you last accessed the site
viewed_cookie_policy viewed_cookie_policy records whether you have viewed this document
wordpress_logged_in wordpress_logged_in logged in status.  This is a session cookie with persistent property for staying logged in

We also use Google Analytics.  More details on the cookies that are set through this service can be found here:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage

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.

What if I don’t want to accept them?

You can block or restrict cookies set by our or any site by activating the setting on each browser you use that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of the site.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Updated: March 2015