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Cookies policy

This website, startupdonut.co.uk or marketingdonut.co.uk or lawdonut.co.uk or techdonut.co.uk or moneydonut.co.uk or sectorsdonut.co.uk (“Our Site”) uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, We are able to provide you with a better experience and to improve Our Site by better understanding how you use it. Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of Our Cookie Policy is deemed to occur if you continue using Our Site. If you do not agree to Our Cookie Policy, please stop using Our Site immediately.

Definitions and interpretation

In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

“Cookie”
means a small file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site;

“Cookie Law”
means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and of EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”);

“personal data”
means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”); and

“We/Us/Our”
means Atom Content Marketing, a limited company registered in England under company number 02784650, whose registered address is Hayes, Southcliffe Road, Swanage BH19 2JF, and whose main trading address is DeskLodge House, 2 Redcliffe Way, Bristol BS1 6NL.

Information about us

How does our site use cookies?

A Cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of Our Site, supporting functions such as logging in, your shopping basket, and payment transactions.

It is important for Us to understand how you use Our Site, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable us to gather this information, helping Us to improve Our Site and your experience of it.

Functionality Cookies enable Us to provide additional functions to you on Our Site such as personalisation and remembering your saved preferences. Some functionality Cookies may also be strictly necessary Cookies, but not all necessarily fall into that category.

It is important for Us to know when and how often you visit Our Site, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps us to better understand you and, in turn, to make Our Site and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties.

Third party Cookies are not placed by Us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on Our Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to Us (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).

Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit Our Site.

Any of the above types of Cookie may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit Our Site until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

What cookies does our site use?

Name of cookie
Purpose & type
Strictly necessary
Expiry
_cfduid
HTTP. Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
Yes
1 year

Name of cookie
Purpose & type
Provider
Strictly necessary
Expiry
_ga
HTTP. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site.
Google Anaytics
No
2 year
_gat
HTTP. Used to throttle request rate.
Google Analytics
No
Session
_gid
HTTP. Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Google Analytics
No
Session
_gads
HTTP. Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user
DoubleClick for Publishers
No
2 years
ads/ga-audiences
Pixel. Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors based on their online behaviour across websites
Google.com
No
Session
collect
Pixel. Used to send data to Google Analytics and the user’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across the devices and marketing channels.
Google Analytics
No
Session
GoogleAdServingTest
HTTP. Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user
DoubleClick for Publishers
No
Session
IDE
HTTP. Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
DoubleClick for Publishers
No
1 year
pcs/activeview
Pixel. Unknown
googlesyndication.com
No
Session
test_cookie
HTTP. Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
doubleclick.net
No
Session
AWSALB
HTTP. Unclassified.
microsoft-us.evyy.net
No
6 days
AWSALB
HTTP. Unclassified.
ojrq.net
No
6 days
brwsr
HTTP. Unclassified.
evyy.net
No
5 years
brwsr
HTTP. Unclassified.
ojrq.net
No
5 years
i/334139/362739/3327
HTTP. Unclassified.
i/334139/362739/3327oubleclick.net
No
Session

Consent and control

Changes to this Cookie Policy

Further information

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Babs Murphy, Chief Executive, North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce

"Thank you all for making my life so easy – you’re every client’s dream agency."

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"Atom is an excellent agency to work with – their staff are great fun, too. Highly professional and efficient, the quality of the content they’ve provided for our website and guides over the years is always superb."

Paul Lancaster, content and social media specialist, Sage

"Atom’s knowledge and experience of delivering advice to businesses was invaluable, adding significant value to the initial tender and leading to a very successful final product.”

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