Cookie Policy

Introduction

The Create Homes website (which covers all pages and links processed under the primary domain: createhomes.com) uses cookies and other technologies (such as tracking pixels) to distinguish you from other users of the website to help us improve your experience of our website, making it easier to use and to support the provision of relevant information and functionality to you.

This policy details what cookies our website uses, who places them there and why. You can see a summary of the types of cookies we use and further details at the bottom of the page. If you refuse all cookies or set your browser to refuse some or all cookies then you may not be able to access some parts of our website and it may not work properly.

Cookies are tiny files that are placed on your device with your agreement when you visit our website. Tracking pixels are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our website or opened an email linking to the website. This website uses Facebook pixel which allows us to receive information about your activities on the website and make our Facebook ads more relevant to you. Pixels interact with cookies to allow us to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functionality.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for technical reasons for our website to operate properly.

Analytical and Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.

Functionality Cookies

These are used to recognise you when you come back to our website so that we can personalise content and remember your previous activity and browsing experiences on our website, so that we can tailor content to you. For example, this site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies are be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users, and to remember your details for future correspondence. They are also used to remember your contact details for any future correspondence through our contact page.

Targeting Cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on its more relevant to you.

Setting Cookies and how long they last

Cookies set across our website can be in the form of session cookies (lasting only as long as your visit to our website) or persistent cookies, and may use different technologies, such as JavaScript. JavaScript is a programming language commonly used in web development, as a means to add dynamic and interactive elements to a site, and can be inserted anywhere into a website codebase, both on the client side and on the server side. JavaScript helps give interactivity to a website that can help engage a user.

First and third party cookies

This website uses Google Analytics cookies, this helps us to understand how our visitors use the website so that we can look at ways in which we can improve your experience and understand how you move around and to our website. Some of these are first party cookies (meaning we place them on your device and use them for our own purposes) and others are third party cookies and we have no control over how these are used by third parties. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can find further information about the individual cookies our website uses and the purposes for which they are used in the table below:

Cookie and Cookie Name

What the cookie does / its purpose / what information it collects

Who places the Cookie and how long it lasts before it is deleted

rc:a - Google reCAPTCHA

Used to distinguish between humans and bots on the website for example when you enter data on the contact form. These increase the security and spam filtering/ validation of these forms and protect the website and its users from spam and bots.

Google - session (lasts as long as the user's session on the website)

rc:c - Google reCAPTCHA

Used to distinguish between humans and bots on the website for example when you enter data on the contact form. These increase the security and spam filtering/ validation of these forms and protect the website and its users from spam and bots.

Google - session (lasts as long as the user's session on the website)

XSRF-Token - Cross-Site Request Forgery Token

Ensures visitor browsing security by preventing cross-site request forgery. Important for security of the website and visitor

Create Group - 24 hours

NID - NID Cookie

Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID can then be used to target advertisements at returning users to the website based on their previous activity and browsing experiences within the website.

Google - 6 months

_ga - Google Analytics

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website such as which pages the user viewed, how long they spent on each page, session duration and clocks as well as demographic and geographic data.

Create Group - 2 years

_gid - Google ID

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website such as which pages the user viewed, how long they spent on each page, session duration and clocks as well as demographic and geographic data.

Create Group - 24 hours

_gat - Google Analytics Throttle

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request data.

 Google - 1 minute

ads/ga-audiences - Google Ads Audiences

Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.

Google - session (lasts as long as the user's session on the website)

fbq - Facebook Pixel

Used to receive information about the visitor’s actions taken on the website, to make Facebook ads more relevant to the user based on their behaviour, actions and previous browsing experiences.

Facebook - 180 days
 
Updating this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.