Cookie Policy

This website https://www.towertransit.co.uk/ (“site”) is owned and operated by Tower Transit Operations Limited. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, which cookies we use and why, and how you can opt-out. This policy was last updated on 24 May 2018.

About Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are sent by a website to a web browser which contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive or other device. This enables the website to identify and track the web browser. They usually identify the computer used rather than the individual user, but some cookies may contain personal information. Cookies can, among other functions, enable a website to recognise a device each time it visits, remember user preferences and recommend relevant content. You can read more about cookies here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Type	Purpose
Strictly necessary cookies	These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site.
Functionality cookies	These are used to recognise you when you return to our site, enabling us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
Targeting cookies	These cookies record your visits to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information (in anonymised form) with third parties for this purpose.
Analytical/ performance cookies	These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site and to see how visitors move around when using our site. This helps us to improve how it works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Cookies have varying expiration dates. How long they stay on your browser will depend on whether they are a session cookie or a persistent cookie (and how long they are set for):

Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire and are automatically erased when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies usually have an expiration date and so stay in your browser until they expire, or until you manually delete them.

Third Party Cookies

We use both first party and third party cookies. Third parties cookies are cookies operated by providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These cookies are placed by the relevant third party and we have no control over these cookies other than allowing them to be served.

The Cookies We Use

We use cookies to provide you with a more personalised experience and to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a better user experience when browsing and allows us to improve our site.

Cookies which are strictly necessary to the operation of our site are dropped onto your browser as soon as you visit our site. Non-essential cookies (including analytical cookies) are not dropped onto your browser until you have consented.

Cookie	Purpose	Duration/Expiry
cookieconsent_status	This cookie is used to track whether the user has dismissed the Cookie notification message.	12 months
PHPSESSID	These are used to recognise you when you return to our site, enabling us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.	Session
de8f89ed821bab7332eafb421ede8527	This is a session identifier provided by Joomla Content Management System.	Session
Google Cookies
Find out more about Google Analytics at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. Read the Google Analytics privacy policy at: https://www.google.co.uk/policies/privacy/. You can find out how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
_gat_gtag_UA_111741443_1	This cookie tracks the source of traffic to our site so Google Analytics can tell us where visitors come from.	Session
_gid	This cookie tracks the source of traffic to our site so Google Analytics can tell us where visitors come from.	1 day
_ga	This cookie tracks the source of traffic to our site so Google Analytics can tell us where visitors come from.	24 months
NID	This cookie is to enable Google Maps to be embedded into the page.	6 months

To the extent that any personal information is collected through our use of cookies, our Privacy Policy will apply to our processing of that personal information.

Cookie Management

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. If you would like to amend your cookie preference for this website you can usually change your browser settings to limit or prevent cookies. You should use your browser’s ‘help’ function to learn more about how to do this. We have set out links to the opt-out pages of the most common browsers below:

Browser	Information link on how to manage cookies
Google Chrome	https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Microsoft Internet Explorer	https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Mozilla Firefox	https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Apple Safari	https://support.apple.com/kb/ph21411?locale=en_US

If you set your browser to not accept cookies, please note it may result in certain sections or features of our site not working properly and certain personalised services not being provided to you or users of your computer.

You can read about how to manage cookies at the following sites:

Changes To This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Please check back here whenever you visit our site to see if any changes have been made. When we update this Cookie Policy, we will also update the “last updated” date at the top.

Contact Us

Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding any matter relating to this Cookie Policy either by email to GDPR@towertransit.co.uk or send by post to:

Tower Transit Operations Ltd,
Westbourne Park Bus Garage,
Great Western Road, London W9 3NW.