Cookie Notice

Our website, www.gpsreturn.co.uk, is operated by GPS Talent Solutions Limited (company number 10408175).

Where we use “we”, “our” or “us” in this notice, we mean GPS Talent Solutions Limited unless we say otherwise.

Where we use “our site” in this notice, we mean www.gpsreturn.co.uk.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognises those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling our site to recognise you.

Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies (and details of how to do this are signposted at the end of this notice), our site will set cookies as soon as you visit our site.

How and why we use cookies

We use cookies on our site to:

recognise you whenever you visit our site
remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
allow you to navigate between pages efficiently
measure how you use our site so it can be updated and improved to give you the best possible experience on our site.

The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain information from which you can easily be identified, such as your name. However, we do collect some personal data relating to your computer or other electronic device, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information.

In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on our site. The exception to this is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested.

When you open our site in your browser a cookie pop up message will be displayed and this will ask you for your consent for non-essential cookies to be placed on your device. If you do not click to accept cookies but you continue to use our site without disabling cookies, we will consider this to mean that you accept our use of these non-essential cookies. A record of your acceptance will be stored in a functional cookie for 30 days, after which the cookie will expire and the cookie pop up message will be displayed again.

You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this Cookie Notice.

We use the following cookies on our site:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

Name: _cfduid

Purpose: Used by the content network, Cloud flare, to identify trusted web traffic.

Duration: 1 year

Name: SESS#

Purpose: Preserves users states across page requests.

Duration: Session

Essential Third Party Cookies

Third parties cookies are used to provide important functionality to our site, as well as collecting anonymous user data for analysis.

Name: _ga

Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site.

Duration: 2 years

Names: APISID, HSID, NID, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID

Purpose: These cookies are used by Google reCAPTCHA to determine and verify that the user is not a robot.

Google's Privacy Policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Duration: Up to 2 years

Functional Cookies

These non-essential cookies allow our site to remember choices you make. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.

Name: ss_cookieAllowed

Purpose: This cookie is used to remember a user’s acceptance of the use of cookies on our site as explained above.

You will see a pop-up cookies message when you first visit our site. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again. This expires after 30 days when you will see a pop up cookie message again to remind you of this Cookie Notice and to ask you to consent again to our use of non-essential cookies.

Duration: 30 days

Name: _gat

Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

Duration: Session

Name: ss_cpvisit

Purpose: Our website is hosted by Squarespace.

We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages they visited.

We don’t allow Squarespace to use or share our analytics data.

Squarespace Analytics stores information about:

The pages you visit on our site
The actions you perform on our site
How long you spend on each page
How you got to our site
What you click on while you’re visiting our site
Information about the browser and device you use to navigate our site, (including an anonymised IP address).
We don’t collect or store any personal information (for example your name or address) that can be used to identify who you are.

More details about Squarespace’s Privacy Policy can be found here - https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/

Duration: 2 years

Name: ss_cvr

Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site.

Duration: 2 years

Name: ss_cvt

Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site.

Duration: Session

Name: ss_cvisit

Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site.

Duration: Session

Name: PHPSESSID

Purpose: To store a the logged in user's username. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access.

Duration: Session

Name: cookieconsent_dismissed

Purpose: This cookie is used to remember a user’s acceptance of the use of cookies on our site as explained above.

Duration: 1 year

Third Party Performance Cookies

These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

Name: _gid

Purpose: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our site.

We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

Google Analytics stores information about:

The pages you visit on our site
The actions you perform on our site
How long you spend on each page
How you got to our site
What you click on while you’re visiting our site
Information about the browser and device you use to navigate our site, (including an anonymised IP address).
We don’t collect or store any personal information (for example your name or address) that can be used to identify who you are.

More details about how Google Analytics collects and processes data are available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Duration: Session

Name: Collect

Purpose: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

More details about how Google Analytics collects and processes data are available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout]

Duration: Session

Name:VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Purpose: Tries to estimate the users' band width on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

More details about how YouTube collects and processes data are available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners

Duration: 179 days

Where to find more information

You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether (all) sites can set cookies on your computer. More information about cookies and how to manage them, specific to your browser, can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.

If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies notice or how we use cookies on our site, please contact us at simon@gpsreturn.co.uk