Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Verity & Co Homes Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal data more generally, including your rights and how to make a complaint.
Effective date of this policy: June 2026
WHAT COOKIES ARE
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, to remember your preferences, and to give site owners information about how their site is being used. Some cookies are set by us. Others are set by third parties whose services we use, such as analytics providers, marketing platforms, embedded content providers and website functionality tools.
We also use this policy to cover similar technologies that do the same job as cookies, including pixels, tags and local storage.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To make our website work. These are essential to core functions such as page navigation, security and remembering your cookie choices.
- To support website functionality. These may support features such as forms, maps, routes, place information, spam protection and embedded content.
- To understand and improve how our website is used. These help us see how visitors interact with the website, so we can improve content, performance and user experience.
- To support our marketing, where you have agreed. These help us measure and tailor our communications and advertising.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are necessary for our website to function. They do things like keep the site secure, support core website features and remember the choices you make about cookies. Because the website cannot work properly without them, they do not require your consent and cannot be switched off through our preferences tool.
Non-essential cookies
Non-essential cookies may include functional, analytics and marketing cookies. These can include cookies and similar technologies linked to tools such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Maps, Google Routes/Places API, Google reCAPTCHA, YouTube videos, Meta Pixel, HouseBuilder Pro and Flodesk.
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the site. Functional cookies help support optional website features and embedded content. Marketing cookies help us measure and tailor our communications.
We only set non-essential cookies where you have given consent through our cookie banner, in line with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). You do not have to accept them, and the website will still work if you do not.
You can reject non-essential cookies when you first visit our website. You can also change or withdraw your consent at any time using the Cookie Preferences link in the footer of our website. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of anything done before you withdrew it.
THE COOKIES WE USE
The tables below list the cookies on our website, grouped by purpose. We review this list regularly and update it as our website changes.
Strictly necessary – Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie name | Set by | Purpose | Type | Duration |
| __cf_bm | cms.verityandcohomes.com | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | HTTP | 1 day |
| _GRECAPTCHA | google.com | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
HTTP
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180 days |
| CookieConsent | verityandcohomes.com | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | HTTP | 1 year |
| rc::a & rc::f | gstatic.com – V&C Careers Page | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | HTML | Persistent |
| rc::b & rc::c | gstatic.com – V&C Careers Page | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | HTML | Session |
Analytics
| Cookie name | Set by | Purpose | Type | Duration |
| GA4 | We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited and how users move around the site. Google Analytics may set cookies such as _ga and _ga_[ID] when analytics cookies are accepted. These cookies help distinguish users and sessions and support website performance reporting. Google Analytics cookies are only used where consent has been given. | Third party | 2 years |
Note: If a category does not apply to our website, we will remove it rather than leave it empty.
MANAGING YOUR PREFERENCES
You have a few ways to control cookies:
- Use the Cookie Preferences link in our website footer to review and change your choices at any time.
- Adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Most browsers let you do this, and their help pages explain how. Please note that blocking essential cookies may stop parts of our website working as intended.
PERSONAL DATA AND YOUR RIGHTS
Some cookies may collect information that counts as personal data. Where they do, we handle it as described in our Privacy Policy, which also sets out your rights and how to contact us. You have the right to complain to us about how we handle your personal data, and you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at www.ico.org.uk.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will publish any changes on this page, and where the changes are significant, we will take reasonable steps to bring them to your attention.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at:
hello@verityandcohomes.com
01535 639620
Verity & Co Homes UK Ltd
Skipton House
Riparian Court
Riparian Way
Cross Hills
BD20 7BW