Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device — computer, tablet, or phone — when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognise your device on subsequent visits and to remember certain information about how you have used the site.

Cookies are widely used across the internet. Some are essential for a website to function correctly; others help website operators understand how their sites are used; and others are used for marketing and advertising purposes. Each category is described in more detail below.

Cookies do not, in themselves, contain personally identifiable information. However, if you have provided personal information to us — for example, by completing an enquiry form — that information may be connected with data stored in or obtained from cookies.

2. Who Sets Cookies on This Website

Cookies may be set either by Thornbridge directly (referred to as first-party cookies) or by third-party services that we use on this website (referred to as third-party cookies). Where third parties set cookies, their own privacy and cookie policies govern how those cookies are used. We have no control over those third-party cookies once they have been placed.

Third-party services that may set cookies on this website include Google Analytics, Google Ads, the Facebook Pixel, and Microsoft Advertising (Bing). These services are only activated where you have consented to their respective cookie categories.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required for the website to operate. They enable core functions such as navigation, form submission, and security. These cookies do not collect information about you for marketing purposes and cannot be disabled without affecting the functionality of the site. No consent is required for essential cookies; they are placed automatically when you visit the website.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use this website — which pages are visited, how long visitors spend on each page, and how they arrived. This information is used in aggregate and helps us improve the structure and content of the site. Analytics cookies are only placed where you have provided your consent through the cookie notice displayed on your first visit.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies track whether visitors have arrived via a particular advertisement or channel and, in some cases, allow us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. They may also be used by third-party platforms to display relevant content to you elsewhere on the internet. Marketing cookies are only placed where you have provided consent.

Preference Cookies

Preference cookies remember choices you have made on this website — such as your cookie consent decision itself — so that those choices are retained on your next visit. These are set once you have interacted with the cookie notice and record only your preference, not your identity.

4. Cookies Used on This Website

The table below sets out the principal cookies this website may place on your device, their purpose, and their typical duration.

Cookie durations are approximate and may vary depending on browser settings and third-party updates. Where a cookie is listed as set by a third party, that party's own documentation governs the actual values placed.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit this website, a notice appears at the foot of the page inviting you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Your choice is saved in a preference cookie so that the notice does not reappear on subsequent visits.

You may withdraw or change your consent at any time by clearing the cookieConsent entry from your browser's local storage, which will cause the notice to reappear on your next visit. Instructions for accessing local storage and cookie settings vary by browser:

• Google Chrome — Settings › Privacy and Security › Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox — Preferences › Privacy & Security › Cookies and Site Data
• Apple Safari — Preferences › Privacy › Manage Website Data
• Microsoft Edge — Settings › Cookies and site permissions

Please note that disabling cookies entirely may affect your experience of this and other websites. Essential cookies cannot be disabled through the cookie notice, as they are necessary for the site to function correctly.

You may also opt out of Google Analytics measurement across all websites by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For Meta advertising, preferences can be managed through your account settings on Meta platforms. For Microsoft Advertising, opt-out options are available at the Microsoft privacy centre.

6. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to websites when enabled. There is currently no consistent technical standard for responding to these signals, and this website does not alter its behaviour in response to them. Your cookie preferences, as expressed through the cookie notice on this website, remain the operative mechanism for managing the placement of non-essential cookies.

7. Changes to This Policy

We review this Cookie Policy periodically and may update it when the cookies used on this website change or when legal requirements require amendment. The date of the most recent revision is shown at the top of this page. Continued use of this website after any revision constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Material changes — such as the addition of new cookie categories — will be communicated through the cookie notice on your next visit, giving you the opportunity to review and update your preferences.

8. Contact

If you have questions about how this website uses cookies, or wish to exercise any rights in relation to data processed in connection with cookies, please contact us: