Privacy information
Parkenhoe takes your privacy seriously and conforms with all current legislation on the privacy of personal data.
The information on this page is specific to the website.
Do we collect personal information?
No – no personal information is collected by this website, and even though we collect visitor statistics, we are unable to identify any individual.
If you send us an email or complete the Contact Form, that is stored in the Sparkenhoe mailbox … which is password protected. This is completely separate and is not connected to the website.
How to we use your contact details?
Your contact details are only used to contact you in relation to your enquiry. Your email address will NOT be added to a mailing list.
Do we share your data?
We do NOT share your data with anyone else.
Links to and content from other websites
We have no control over your privacy if you follow a link from this site to any other. Please check the privacy and cookie policies when you arrive at any other site.
Website Visitor Statistics
We do not use Google Analytics to collect or analyse information about our website visitors.
Instead, we use StatCounter, a company registered and based in the Irish Republic.
We use statistics to understand such things as what devices visitors are using, which pages are visited, and if visitors return. We are unable to identify any individual from this data.
StatCounter use some of this anonymous data, amalgamated with data from over two million other websites to analyse trends on a country and worldwide basis.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file which is stored by your browser when you visit a website. The cookie only contains data, not code. Because of cookies, your web browser can remember such things as you being logged in, that you have visited a site before, what is in your shopping basket, or what your personal preferences are.
Cookies are categorised as one of the following:
- Necessary
(for the website to function and to stay secure – this includes preventing email and contact form spam) - Functional
(to store your preferences and a session ID) - Performance & Statistics
(to help improve the website performance and visitor experience, by understanding what devices are used for example)
This website DOES NOT use any Marketing and Ad Tracking cookies.
Managing your cookies
You can use your browser to manage the cookies on your computer. If you use more than one browser, you need to manage the cookie settings in each browser.
Visit this page to find out how to control cookies with your browser:
https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies
You may also find this Google video about cookies useful:
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| is_unique | third party, persistent | 5 years | This holds data on your visits to websites which use StatCounter. StatCounter solely uses it to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor on each website and to estimate your accumulated unique visits per site. No personal information is stored in the cookie. |
| JCS_INENREF | session | session | The cookie is a part of the website security measures and is used for anti-spam purposes. |
| JCS_INENTIM | session | session | The cookie is a part of the website security measures and is used for anti-spam purposes. |
| NCS_INENTIM | session | session | The cookie is a part of the website security measures and is used for anti-spam purposes. |
| PHPSESSID | session | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
| sc_is_visitor_unique | persistent | 2 years | This cookie is set by the website that you visit. When it is first set, a random id is generated and stored in the cookie in order to avoid counting you as a visitor more than once (e.g. if you are on a mobile device and your IP address changes while you browse). Similarly to the is_unique cookie, this cookie also stores a count of your returning visits. |
| SJECT16 | session | session | The cookie is a part of the website security measures and is used for anti-spam purposes. |