Cookies Policy

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is therefore recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). However, please be aware that disabling cookies might affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. When you submit data through a form such as those found in the Nurseries section, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. This section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site:

  • Google Analytics – This is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web and is used to help us understand how you use the site and the ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official Google Analytics page.

• Social media buttons and/or plugins – These allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites such as Facebook will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

• Facebook Pixel Code - As part of 1st Place advertising campaigns, this is used for remarketing, analysis and reporting. For further information on the Facebook Pixel Code, see the Cookies page in the Policies section of the Facebook website.

More Information

For further information about cookies on the 1st Place website, please email Director@1stplace.uk.com.