Cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information, like a tag, that is stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. It can help identify your device whenever you visit that website. Cookies are used by most major websites, including GP at Hand. To make the best use of GP at Hand’s website, we would recommend you set your device/web browser to accept cookies. The choice, however, is yours.

What information is kept by the cookie?

Typically, a cookie holds: the name of the website that it has come from; how long the cookie will stay on your computer or phone; and a value (usually a randomly generated unique number).

How do cookies affect my privacy?

You can visit our website without revealing your personal details. We may ask you for personal information so you can use our services. Full details of how we collect information, how we use it, how we keep it and how we disclose it can be found in our Privacy Policy.

How GP at Hand uses cookies

Cookies are used for a variety of things that help improve your online experience. They can also help in other ways, including: making logins faster by remembering your customer details, helping a page to load quickly, or making sure our pages are optimised for your browser or device (by giving us technical information about the device or browser you are using). We use cookies for a number of functions:

Essential navigation: Some cookies are essential to the function of the site.
Personal preferences: Cookies can help give you content that matches your preferences and can also allow you to customise a page (for example, to set your language preference).
Improving our service: To make sure you don’t see particular information or announcements too many times we use a cookie to limit their frequency (for example, to record your cookie preference).

Third party cookies

We use a third party cookie preference tool in order to store your preference regarding cookies on this site. Storing the cookie means that you do not have to review this information every time you visit our site. Your preference is stored for up to one year.
We use a third party language translation tool on this website. If you choose to use this tool, cookies will be stored on your computer to remember your language choice across the site. No cookies are stored by this service unless you access this tool.
We do not use any other non-essential or third-party cookies on this site.

How to manage cookies

You can accept or refuse cookies. Accepting cookies is usually the best way to make sure you get the best from our website. If you use a different device, computer profile or browser you will have to tell us your preferences again. Most PCs automatically accept them but you can change your browser settings to restrict, block or delete cookies if you want. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Many browsers have universal privacy settings for you to choose from. Please see Aboutcookies.org for help on deleting and controlling cookies.

You can review your decision and choose to decline non-essential cookies on our site here: