What are cookies

Oak Digital Consulting’s website uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how the company uses it and why sometimes there is the need to store these cookies. You can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

How Oak Digital Consulting uses cookies

The company uses cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. 

The cookies Oak Digital Consulting sets

• Account related cookies
  If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

• Email and newsletters-related cookies
  This site offers newsletter and email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribe/unsubscribed users.

• Surveys related cookies
  From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights and helpful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or provide accurate results after you change pages.

• Forms related cookies
  When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

• Site preferences cookies
  To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences

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Third-party cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
• Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
• From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to how the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
• The Google AdSense service we use to serve to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
• We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites will set cookies through our site, which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.