Cookie Policy

Last updated: 24 August 2026

This policy explains how Tommy McDevitt Marketing uses cookies and similar technologies on tommymcdevittmarketing.co.uk, and how you can control them.

For information about how personal information is handled more generally, see the Privacy Policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They can help a website function, remember choices, protect forms, measure usage or provide other features.

Some cookies last only for the current browser session. Others remain for a stated period or until you delete them.

How this website uses cookies

The website uses two main categories of cookies.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies support functions such as:

remembering your cookie preferences
protecting forms and the website from spam, abuse and security threats
maintaining essential WordPress or administrative functionality
delivering the website reliably

These cookies are not used for advertising. They cannot always be disabled through the consent panel because the website needs them to provide a requested function or remember your privacy choices.

Ordinary visitors do not have website accounts. WordPress login and administration cookies are therefore only relevant to authorised site administrators.

Analytics cookies

If you choose to accept Analytics cookies, this website uses Google Analytics through MonsterInsights to understand how visitors find and use the website.

Google Analytics may process information such as:

pages visited and actions taken
approximate location derived from an IP address
browser, device, language and screen information
referral source and campaign information
a pseudonymous browser or client identifier

I do not intentionally send names, email addresses or information typed into enquiry forms to Google Analytics.

Analytics cookies are blocked until you choose to accept them. Refusing Analytics cookies does not prevent you from using the website or submitting an enquiry.

Google’s own information about its privacy practices is available at policies.google.com/privacy.

Advertising cookies

This website does not currently use cookies for behavioural advertising, remarketing or cross-site advertising profiles.

If this changes, the cookie banner, cookie scan and this policy will be updated before those cookies are enabled for visitors who have not consented.

Current cookies and services

The table below is generated from the website’s current WPConsent configuration. It shows the cookies and services detected during the latest scan, their purposes, categories, providers and typical durations.

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Name	Description	Duration
__utmx	Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.	18 months
_ga	ID used to identify users	2 years
_gali	Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked	30 seconds
_ga_	ID used to identify users	2 years
_gid	ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity	24 hours
_gat	Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager	1 minute
__utma	ID used to identify users and sessions	2 years after last activity
__utmt	Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests	10 minutes
__utmb	Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server.	30 minutes after last activity
__utmc	Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session.	End of session (browser)
__utmz	Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server	6 months after last activity
__utmv	Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server.	2 years after last activity
_gac_	Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together.	90 days

Managing your preferences

You can accept or reject optional cookie categories when the consent banner appears.

You can also change or withdraw your choices at any time by selecting Manage cookie preferences below. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

Manage cookie preferences

You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls may affect other websites and, if you block all cookies, may prevent some requested website functions from working correctly.

Forms, comments and embedded content

This website does not allow public comments or visitor accounts, so it does not set cookies to remember comment details or public login sessions.

The website does not currently intentionally embed third-party video or social-media players. If embedded services are introduced later, they will be added to the consent configuration and cookie scan where necessary.

Links to external websites do not place their cookies on this website merely because the link appears here. An external website may use its own cookies after you choose to visit it.

How long cookies last

Cookie durations vary. Session cookies expire when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until their stated expiry date, until you withdraw the relevant consent and the consent tool removes them, or until you delete them through your browser.

The live cookie table above provides the expected duration for each currently configured cookie. Google Analytics cookies commonly use a period of up to two years unless a shorter duration is configured.

Changes to this policy

This policy and the live cookie table may be updated when cookies, website features or service providers change. The revision date at the top of the page shows when the surrounding policy text was last updated.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy or the website’s use of cookies, contact:

Thomas McDevitt, trading as Tommy McDevitt Marketing
tommy@tommymcdevittmarketing.co.uk