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Information about our use of cookies
Welcome to Harper James Limited’s (“Harper James”, “we”, “us”, “our”) cookie policy.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact our data privacy team as follows:
Email: clientservices@harperjames.co.uk
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary/Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
Third Party Cookies
We use Google Analytics on our website. This is a third party cookie operated by Google. More details are provided in the list of cookies below. Click on this link to view Google’s Privacy Policy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit the Google Opt Out page.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Category |
| __cf_bm | hubspot.com | This cookie is essential for our site to read and filter requests from bots. | 1 day | Essential |
| _GRECAPTCHA | google.com | This cookie is essential for our site to provide spam protection. | 180 days | Essential |
| CookieConsent | harperjames.co.uk | This cookie is essential for our site to store cookie consent preferences | 1 year | Essential |
| rc::a | gstatic.com | This cookie is essential for our site to read and filter requests from bots. | Persistent | Essential |
| rc::b | gstatic.com | This cookie is essential for our site to read and filter requests from bots. | Session | Essential |
| rc::c | gstatic.com | This cookie is essential for our site to read and filter requests from bots. | Session | Essential |
| rc::d-15# | gstatic.com | This cookie is essential for our site to read and filter requests from bots. | Persistent | Essential |
| rc::f | gstatic.com | This cookie is essential for our site to read and filter requests from bots. | Persistent | Essential |
| harperjames-cta | harperjames.co.uk | Used to control when the floating CTA popup in the bottom right has been closed by the visitor | 1 day | Functional |
| popup_* | harperjames.co.uk | Used to keep track of which popups a visitor has seen to avoid duplication | 1 day | Functional |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | This cookie enables us to check that cookies can be set. | 1 day | Targeting |
| __hssc | harperjames.co.uk HubSpot | This cookie enables us to store anonymised statistics. | 1 day | Analytical |
| __hssrc | harperjames.co.uk HubSpot | This cookie enables us to store a unique session ID | Session | Analytical |
| td | googletagmanager | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. | Session | Analytical |
| __hstc | harperjames.co.uk | This cookie enables us to store time of visit | 180 days | Analytical |
| Hubspotutk | harperjames.co.uk | This cookie enables us to store and track a visitor’s identity and is passed on form submission | 180 days | Targeting |
| __ptq.gif | hubspot.com | This cookie enables us to track visitors across devices and marketing channels. | Session | Targeting |
| _gcl_au | harperjames.co.uk Google Adsense | This cookie enables us to store and track conversions. | 3 months | Targeting |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | This cookie enables us to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 13 months | Targeting |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | This cookie tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple web sites and detects how the user navigates between sites. | Session | Targeting |
| _fbp | This cookie enables us to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 3 Months | Targeting | |
| In_or | Registers statistical data on users’ behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 day | Targeting | |
| HSID | Google Ads | Used to provide fraud prevention. | 2 years | Targeting |
| NID | Google Ads | Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. | 1 year | Targeting |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | Analytical |
| _ga_# | Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | 2 years | Analytical |
| _gat_# | Google Analytics | Used to read and filter requests from bots. | 1 minute | Analytical |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | Analytical | |
| calltrk_landing | CallRail | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality. The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website's support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | 1 year | Analytical |
| calltrk_session_id | CallRail | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality. The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website's support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | 1 year | Analytical |
| calltrk_referrer | CallRail | This cookie is necessary for the call-tracking functionality. The cookie sets an ID for the specific user, which allows the website's support team to recognize the user when calling their support, as well as seeing the user’s navigation on the website. | 1 year | Analytical |
| CONSENT | Google cookie used to store user preference and personalised ads | Persistent | Targeting | |
| OTZ | Google ads used to link user website activities with other devices which have been logged in via Google account to better tailor ads | 1 month | Targeting | |
| AEC | Google security cookie used to confirm visitor authenticity, protect visitor data and prevent fraudulent use of credentials | 6 months | Targeting | |
| SOCS | Google cookie used to store user preference and personalised ads | 13 months | Targeting | |
| 1P_JAR | Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | 1 month | Targeting | |
| MUID | Microsoft Bing | Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads | 390 days | Targeting |
| SRCHHPGUSR | Microsoft Bing | This cookie helps us to track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Bing advertising network. | 2 years | Targeting |
| SRCHUSR | Microsoft Bing | This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. | 2 years | Targeting |
| _HPVN | Microsoft Bing | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of the website. | 6 months | Targeting |
| BCP | Microsoft Bing | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes | 3 months | Targeting |
| USRLOC | Microsoft Bing | This cookie is used to understand user interaction with the website | 6 months | Targeting |
| _UR | Microsoft Bing | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes | 4 months | Targeting |
| ACLUSR | Microsoft Bing | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes | 6 months | Targeting |
Consent and Control
Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown pop up requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies you are enabling us to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies unless those cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of our website may not function fully or as intended. You will be given the opportunity to allow and/or deny different categories of cookie that we use. You can return to your cookie preferences to review and/or change them at any time by adjusting your cookie settings.
In addition to the controls that we provide, you can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third party cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies but this can be changed.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may alter this cookie policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our website after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
In the event of any conflict between the current version of this cookie policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.
Last updated: September 2023
Further reading: Privacy policy