Cookie Policy

This cookie policy tells you what cookies may be created, based on your consent as provided in the Cookie Consent Message that will appear when you visit any of our websites. Your consent can be changed at anytime by following the "Change Cookie Preferences" link in the website's footer. This cookie policy was last reviewed 06 Jan 2025

Our website uses a number of cookies to store data on our visitor's computers. By continuing to use the MMD GPHC Limited website (the "Site" or this “website”), you are agreeing to the use of cookies in the manner described in this notice.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to help improve your experience of our websites This cookie policy is part of MMD GPHC Limited privacy policy. It covers the use of cookies between your device and our websites.

We also provide basic information on third-party services we may use, who may also use cookies as part of their service.

If you don’t wish to accept cookies from us, you should amend your cookie consent preferences as described above. In such a case, we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.

Some cookies we create are necessary, and we cannot allow consent for their creation, they are essential for assuring the security and saftey of your personal data when using our websites, such as sign in and logged in accessible areas. Without these cookies your security would be compromised and we cannot fulfil our legal obligations to protect your data security, so we don't allow these cookies to be opted-out from.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website stores on your device when you visit. It typically contains information about the website itself, a unique identifier that allows the site to recognise your web browser when you return, additional data that serves the cookie’s purpose, and the lifespan of the cookie itself.

Cookies are used to enable certain features (e.g. logging in), track site usage (e.g. analytics), store your user settings (e.g. time zone, notification preferences), and to personalise your content (e.g. advertising, language).

Cookies set by the website you are visiting are usually referred to as first-party cookies. They typically only track your activity on that particular site.

Cookies set by other sites and companies (i.e. third parties) are called third-party cookies. They can be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

Cookies created by this website

Cookies are used on this website to save people's settings and can sometimes be used to track how visitors get to and interact with websites.

This website creates a number of cookies, which are referred to as first party cookies as they are specific to the host site that created them.  All the first-party cookies which are created do not store any personal or sensitive information, or anything that makes you personally identifiable to us. They are used for essential functionality such as security when processing form data or for analytics which helps us use anonymous visitor data to gain a better understanding of how people use our website.

How can I control the use of cookies created on this website?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies on our Website. You can manage your cookie preferences in our Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with the services on our Website.

You may also be able to set or amend your cookie preferences by managing your web browser settings. As each web browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your web browser (typically in the "help" section). If you choose to refuse or disable cookies you may still use the Website, though some of the functionality of the Website may not be available to you.

How Often Will We Update This Cookie Policy?

We regularly review the cookie policy to ensure all cookies created are declared, with accurate information about their use.

Each time you use our Website, the current version of the Cookie Policy will apply. When you use our Website, you should check the date of this Cookie Policy (which appears at the top of this document) and review any changes since the last version.

Cookies created by this website

The cookies we create are categorised so you can decide which categories you are comfortable to accept. The level of personal data processed varies for each category, so you can control the level of data processing which is permissable.

Strictly Necessary Cookies - required to protect personal data you may provide us or protect the systems used to host and support the website platforms. We need to cookies and will do so without consent and they cannot be opted out of due to our obligation to protect your personal data.

Performance Cookies - are used for the purpose of tracking how users interact with our website, using Analytics tools. This allows us to understand how people use our website and learn how we can enhance and develop our websites in the future.

Functional Cookies - are used to enhance your user experience by providing additional features such as remembering preferences or suggesting personalised recommendations. These cookies process minimal user data.

Targeting Cookies - to provide the most tailored and personalised experience, we would like to create Targeting Cookies, which are used to track your interests and share across ad networks to ensure you receive the most relevant advertising.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Our website may create an essential session cookie, which is essential for your use of some of the interactive elements of the website.

These include your session, which means it saves information on what you have done on the site during this current visit (for example what pages you have visited and whether you have logged in).
The cookie contains a session ID which is a mechanism for distinguishing your visit to our website from any other visitors that may be using the website at the same time. This cookie expires when you leave our website.

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics, which creates a number of first-party cookies.

Full details of the cookies which Google Analytics uses can be found in Cookies & Google Analytics in documentation for Google's Analytics tracking code. You can also read Google's Privacy Policy for Google Analytics.

We don't share the data that Google Analytics collects, and we don't believe that our use of Google Analytics is privacy-intrusive. We use the data that is collected in the following ways:

to report, in aggregate, how our visitors find and use our website;
to understand overall visitor behaviour; and
to inform how we update and improve our website.
To opt out of our use of Google Analytics you may wish to consider using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (this will open a separate window in your browser).

Paid Search Marketing
We use Google Ads as a means of advertising our website. If you click on a sponsored advert on Google, information about the ad and keywords that brought you to our website is stored in a _ga cookie. This helps us track visits from Google Ads that led to an enquiry, so that we can determine the return on investment of our advertising spend.

No personally identifiable information is stored in this cookie, however we may be able to associate a contact form you have submitted, with analytics data. This information is used to determine which ads and keywords led to an enquiry, so that we can optimise the Google Ads campaign accordingly.

When people interact with our ads (by clicking a text ad or viewing a video ad), Google Ads stores cookies that contain information about the interaction. When someone submits an enquiry on our website, a conversion tracking tag reads this cookie and sends it back to Google Ads with the conversion information.

Remarketing
When you visit our website we may add a Google Remarketing tracking tag which allows Google to create a cookie to track when you have visited our website. Google uses this cookie to determine other websites you may be interested in or if you use other Google products, it may have tracked information about your internet browsing behaviour. This information can then be used in Google Ads to show our ads to you on other Google Network sites or Google Properties.

Hubspot
We use a marketing software called Hubspot which creates cookies for analytics purposes. If you submit an enquiry through our website we may store your details in HubSpot to help process your enquiry and help us determine the sources of enquiries, i.e. from which marketing campaigns did the enquiry originate.

Hubspot creates cookies for analytics purposes to help us determine the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

Formstack

We use Formstack to build contact forms on the Contact Us page, to capture enquries from visitors. There are two possible cookies used on Formstack forms for essential use.

A Formstack form will always use this type of cookie:

PHPSESSID: This is used to track that the form was viewed to avoid duplicate form submissions. No other items than view are tracked.

Types of cookies used with Forms Workflows and Portals:

fsBrowserSessionId: This is used to track the view on these features. No other items than view are tracked.

Cookies created by external services
In addition to our first-party cookies, you may be served one or more of the following third-party cookies during your visit to our website. By using our website we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on our website, but we have provided information at the top of this page on how you can set your browser to prevent cookies being created.

Third party cookies are cookies created by an external service when you use a page on our website. These cookies are specific to the third-party's domain and accordingly the data held in them can be seen and managed by the third party and not by us. We control whether or not we use the third-party service with our website, and how it is integrated and presented on our website. We do not have control over the cookies themselves. We carefully select 3rd party services to use on our website; ones that are not likely to abuse your privacy according to the terms of their privacy policies.

AddToAny
AddToAny.com is a content sharing plugin that we use on our website to allow users to share our content on social networking sites.

By design, AddToAny does not store personal data. Their technology vendors are compliant, and may temporarily store an IP address and set a client cookie for security purposes as the regulations allow.

YouTube
We may use YouTube to host video content.  When you view a web page on our site with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube creates at least three cookies: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, and GSP. We use the YouTube service as a convenience for our visitors, and we use it on the basis that Google adheres to its privacy policy.

The cookies are created to track video usage and to report on video analytics. YouTube may also use the data to suggest other videos you may be interested in.

Other cookies
From time to time we may use additional external services on our website which may create cookies on your device. As we add new services or make changes that use cookies, we will update this cookie policy with the details.
If you have any concerns about the cookies we create, please contact us and we'll be happy to answer your questions.

List of cookies created by this website