Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. More information about cookies, including how to block and/or delete them, via a range of common browsers, can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org.
How we use cookies
When you use this website, we may analyse basic information about your activity within the website in order to measure engagement interest.
We may collect non-personal information about your visit to our website, based on your browsing (click stream) activities. This information includes pages browsed, projects viewed, tools used and other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our website functions and to understand how users interact with them.
We make use of different third-party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), or embedded content from YouTube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.
We use the following cookies
Some of these cookies are 'strictly necessary' to provide the basic functions of the website and cannot be turned off, while others if present, have the option of being turned off.
Necessary Cookies: Necessary cookies enable more functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Google Analytical: These cookies are used to collect information in an anonymous form about how people use the website, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. This allows us to make sure the website is meeting your needs and help us understand what we could improve.
Other cookies: A cookie is used to remember that you have accepted our cookie policy and prevents the policy pop-up from appearing in future visits. Please note that if you delete cookies this will reappear.
Social Media Cookies: We use social media cookies which allows you to share certain pages of our website on social media. This includes Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn cookies.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by using the cookie banner that appears when you visit this website.
How to delete cookies
Portsmouth Water will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.