Cookies Policy

Welcome to our cookies policy.

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

Who we are

This website is operated by OFF THE PATCH LIMITED (OTP, we, our or us), a company registered in England and Wales (company number 11680229) with registered office at Kemp House, 160 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX.

Our website

This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website: www.offthepatch.com.

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to provide you with additional information about schemes available, requirements for renting your home or interesting articles and news from within the military community. We are not affiliated with those websites and provide links for information only. These website may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how often you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data and location data. This information helps us to build a profile of our users and better understand who is interested in our services. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested – for example, to submit your details through our contact form.

You can choose to reject the use of non-essential cookies but please be aware that this may cause parts of our website to not operate properly. You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences through your browser settings on your device.

Our use of cookies

The list below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

1.    Crumb – this is a first party essential cookie. It is used to recognise a computer or device when a user visits our website. It also prevents cross-site request forgery. 

2.    Ss_cookieAllowed - this is a third party essential cookie set by Squarespace. This cookie remembers whether you have agreed to placing Analytics cookies on your browser.

3. Notice_behaviour - this is a non-essential third party cookie set by Squarespace. This functionality cookie is used to store a visitor's cookie preferences.

 4. _uetvid and _uetsid – these are non-essential third party cookies set by Squarespace. These are cookies utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and are tracking cookies.

5.   SS_SESSION_ID – this is a non-essential third party cookie set by Squarespace. This is an analytical and performance cookie which identifies unique visitors to our site and tracks their session. 

6.    SS_MID, SS_MATTR, SS_ANALYTICS_ID and ss_lastid – These are non-essential third party cookies set by Squarespace. These cookies identify a unique visitor to our website. No visitor information is stored except a unique ID dropped by Squarespace on visitors to the site.

Third party access to the cookies

We operate our website through Squarespace, who use cookies on our site as part of the services they provide. These are specified above. Such third party cookies are governed by Squarespace’s cookie policy. For more information, visit their cookies policy.

How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

How to contact us

Please contact us using details on the Contact Us page if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.

Changes to this policy

This policy was published on 06 August 2021.

We may change this policy from time to time, when we do we will post the updated policy on this page and we may be required to collect your consent to use cookies again, depending on the nature of the changes.