1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit them.
They can be used to remember preferences, support website functionality and collect information about how a website is used.
Some cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser, while others remain on your device for a longer period.
Similar technologies, including browser storage, may also be used to remember website preferences.
2. How We Use Cookies
The SP Web Connections website uses, or may use, two main categories of cookies and related technologies:
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Essential functionality — Technologies required for particular website functions, security or remembering your cookie preferences.
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Optional analytics — Technologies used to help us understand how visitors use our website, where the necessary consent has been given.
We aim to keep the use of cookies proportionate to the functionality and information required.
3. Essential Cookies and Browser Storage
Some website functions may require cookies or browser storage to operate correctly.
For example, remembering whether you have accepted or rejected optional cookies helps the website respect your preference during future visits.
Essential technologies do not require consent where an applicable legal exemption applies.
The exact storage mechanisms and retention periods depend on the website functionality involved.
4. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help understand how visitors interact with our website.
Depending on its configuration, Google Analytics can provide information about pages visited, navigation between pages, approximate geographical information, device categories and other website usage statistics.
This information helps us assess the performance and usefulness of our website.
Google Analytics may use cookies and related technologies to distinguish visits and produce website usage reports.
On our website, optional Google Analytics tracking is intended to operate only after a visitor has chosen to allow analytics cookies.
You can reject optional analytics without preventing access to the main public content of the website.
5. Google Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics 4 commonly uses cookies such as:
_ga — Used to distinguish visitors for analytics purposes.
_ga_XXXXXXXXXX — Used to maintain session-related information for a particular Google Analytics property.
The exact cookie names, expiry periods and behaviour depend on the configuration of Google Analytics.
Other cookies or storage technologies may be introduced by particular features or future changes to the website. Where appropriate, this policy will be updated to reflect those changes.
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent notice offering a choice about optional analytics.
You can accept or reject optional analytics cookies.
Your choice can be changed using the website's cookie preference controls, where provided.
You can also remove existing cookies using your browser settings. Removing saved preferences may cause the website to ask for your choice again.
Please note that disabling or deleting certain browser storage may affect how preferences are remembered.
7. Third-Party Services
Google Analytics is provided by Google, which may process information collected through its services in accordance with its applicable terms and privacy arrangements.
Further information about Google's privacy practices is available at policies.google.com/privacy.
We do not intend to use optional analytics data for advertising personalisation through this website.
8. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if we introduce new website features, change our analytics arrangements or need to reflect changes to applicable requirements.
The latest version will be available on this page.
Last updated: 5th November 2026