Cookie Policy

Introduction to Cookies

To deliver services, provide useful information and offer you a good online experience, Queen Elizabeth Building Chambers (QEB) may use technologies to collect and store information when you are using our website and our services.

Most often, this will include using cookies and tracking technologies on our website, for example, pixels.

We use cookies to benefit your experience using our website and to improve our online offering to you. This includes:

  • Remembering you when you come back to our website
  • Saving your login details
  • Gathering valuable usability data to help us identify areas of our website which may be slow or not working correctly.
  • Analysing how our website is performing and identifying areas for improvement
  • Gathering demographic information about our user base

You can control the use of cookies within your browser.

If you want to know more about cookies and how they work, or want information on removing cookies from your device, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

Cookies used by QEB

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are used to store your preferences when browsing our website.

  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary  – Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Necessary” category -Expires every 1 year.
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance – Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Performance” -Expires every 1 year.
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics – Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Analytics” category -Expires every 1 year.
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement – Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the “Advertisement” category -Expires every 1 year.
  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-others – Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to store the user consent for cookies in the category “Others”-Expires every 1 year.

Preference Cookies

These cookies are used to store your preferences when browsing our website.

  • cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional – The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Functional”-Expires every 1 year.

Statistics Cookies

These cookies are designed to help us gather data about how our website is used. This informs future website changes and performance improvements.

  • _ga – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. Expires every 2 years. Uses a non-identifiable, anonymised record.
  • _gid – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.Expires every 1 day. Uses a non-identifiable, anonymised record.
  • _gat – Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Expires every 1 day. Uses a non-identifiable, anonymised record.

If you would like more information about cookies, how to remove them or how to opt out, we would recommend visiting the About Cookies website. The site contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine, as well as more general information about cookies.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact upon the functionality of our website.