Cookie Policy
Last updated: 11 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Oxfordshire Brickwork Limited uses cookies and similar technologies on oxfordshirebrickwork.co.uk.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files stored on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
They can be used to make a website function correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use a website and measure the effectiveness of advertising.
Similar technologies, including tracking tags and browser storage, may also be used for these purposes.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To ensure the website functions correctly
- To remember your cookie preferences
- To understand how visitors use our website
- To improve the performance and usability of the website
- To measure the effectiveness of our Google advertising
Some cookies are necessary for the operation of the website.
Other cookies, including analytics and advertising cookies, are optional and will only be used after you have given permission through our cookie consent system.
3. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are required for the website to operate correctly and cannot normally be switched off.
These may include cookies used for:
- Website security
- Basic website functionality
- Remembering your cookie preferences
- Maintaining website performance and reliability
These cookies are not used for advertising purposes.
4. Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- How visitors arrived at the website
- Browser and device information
- Approximate location
- Interactions with pages and website features
This information helps us understand how the website is being used and where it can be improved.
Google Analytics commonly uses cookies including:
_ga
Used to distinguish website visitors.
Typical duration: up to 2 years.
ga
Used to maintain information about a visitor’s session.
Typical duration: up to 2 years.
Analytics cookies will only be activated where you have chosen to allow analytics cookies.
5. Advertising cookies
We use Google Ads tracking to help us understand whether our advertising leads to enquiries or other useful actions on our website.
Google advertising technologies may use cookies and similar technologies to record information about advertising interactions and conversions.
Cookies used for this purpose may include cookies beginning with:
gcl
Used to measure advertising performance and determine whether a visitor who clicked an advert later completed an action on the website.
Typical duration: up to 90 days.
The specific cookies used may vary depending on how Google Ads and Google Analytics are configured.
Advertising cookies and tracking technologies will only be activated after you have chosen to allow advertising cookies.
6. Google
Google Analytics and Google Ads are provided by Google.
When these services are enabled, information from your visit may be sent to Google, including information about your browser or device, your IP address, pages you visit and interactions with the website.
Google may process information in countries outside the United Kingdom.
For more information about how Google uses information from websites that use its services, please refer to Google’s own privacy information.
7. Your cookie choices
When you first visit our website, you will be given a choice about the use of optional cookies.
You can:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Choose which categories of optional cookies you wish to allow
Necessary cookies will remain active because they are required for the website to operate.
You can change or withdraw your choices at any time using the Cookie Settings link on our website.
Rejecting optional cookies will not prevent you from using the main features of the website.
8. Managing cookies through your browser
Most web browsers also allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect the way some websites function.
Changing your browser settings does not necessarily replace the choices made through our website’s cookie settings.
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if the cookies or technologies used on our website change or if legal requirements change.
The latest version will always be published on this page, together with the date it was most recently updated.
10. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact:
Oxfordshire Brickwork Limited
5 The Chambers, Vineyard
Abingdon-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
OX14 3PX