Cookie Policy
Last updated: 30 October 2025
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Bell & Shanks (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website bellshanks.com (“the Website”).
We use cookies to ensure our site functions properly, to enhance your browsing experience, and to help us understand how visitors interact with our pages in an anonymous and aggregated way.
This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
2. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They help the site remember your device and certain information about your visit — such as your session, preferences, and security settings.
Cookies can be either “session cookies”, which are deleted when you close your browser, or “persistent cookies”, which remain on your device until deleted or expired.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use a very limited number of cookies, all of which serve essential or functional purposes. These include:
- Essential cookies: Required for the website to work securely and as intended. They support navigation, enable access to secure areas, and help prevent malicious activity.
- Functional cookies: Allow the website to remember your preferences or actions, such as retaining information you enter into forms or remembering language settings.
- Performance cookies: Collect anonymous information about how visitors use the website, such as which pages are most frequently visited, so we can improve structure and content.
- Security cookies: Help us identify and prevent security threats or misuse, such as repeated or automated form submissions.
We do not currently use any advertising, marketing, or tracking cookies.
4. Cookies in Use
Our website may store a small number of cookies to support its operation and security. Examples include cookies that:
- Keep your browsing session active and secure.
- Protect against cross-site request forgery attacks.
- Detect your browser type and optimise the website’s performance.
- Remember whether you’ve accepted or declined cookies.
- Collect anonymous, aggregated analytics data about page visits.
These cookies do not identify you personally, and the information they collect is used only to maintain and improve the performance of our website.
5. Managing Cookies
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive a warning before cookies are stored.
Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the functionality and performance of the Website.
For more detailed guidance on how to control cookies, visit:
6. Future Changes
If we introduce new tools or services that use cookies, this policy will be updated, and your consent will be requested where required by law. We recommend checking this page periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please contact us at:
Bell & Shanks
Shanks, Bell & Partners Limited
563 Blueline Business Development Centre
Shields Road, Walkergate
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE6 4QL
Email: privacy@bellshanks.com
