Cookies and usage tracking

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things, eg remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket and counting the number of people looking at a website.


Cookies we use -

Essential Cookies
These cookies enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity and network management. These cookies can’t be disabled.

Functional Cookies
These cookies collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience.

Name of cookie Purpose Duration
bk_analytics_visit Provides basic analytics on the website 1 hour

bk_analytics_visitor Provides basic analytics on the website 10 years

PHSESSID This cookie is used to provide things like session
Analytics to site visitors

bk-cookie-warning This cookie is used to remember 10 years
that a site visitor has acknowledged
the site’s usage of cookies

_remember_me This cookie is used to allow users to 2 months
remain logged in for an extended
period of time

bk.webfonts.format The cookie is used in context with
the local-storage function in the browser.
This function allows the website to load faster
by pre-loading certain procedures.

bk. Webfonts.published.
woff.playfair_display Keeps track of special fonts used on the
website for internal analysis.
The cookie does not register any visitor data.

-grecaptcha this is a Google cookie and is used to
distinguish between humans and bots.
It works by tracking a visitor's time on the
site and distinguishes whether they are
human by the amount of time it takes to visit
the site and complete the contact form - if
under a second it categorises the visit as a bot.

Data is sent to the United States, however Google are registered on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the UK have created the UK-US data bridge utilising this framework to access a Finding of Adequacy.

googleapis This embeds a Google map of the location of
the business into the website, but no cookie is set

Our Third Party supplier is:

• Fasthosts.co.uk - the UK based company that hosts the website.