Cookie Policy

This is the cookie notice of Vets At Home, which tells you about how we use cookies on our website.

It forms part of our privacy notice, which can be found on our website

Our use of cookies complies with Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and the Data Protection Act 2018.

About cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved.

Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely.

Our legal obligation to you

The law relates only to cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of a website, and not to all cookies.

For example, it applies to cookies used to record your preferences relating to receiving marketing messages from us, but it does not apply to cookies that we use to record your preferences about the use of cookies.

Our obligation to you is to tell you how we use cookies for certain purposes.

Our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.

When you first visit our website, we ask you whether you wish us to use cookies. If you choose not to accept them, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose.

If you choose not to use cookies or you prevent their use through your browser settings, you may not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

We use cookies in the following ways:

• to track how you use our website
• to provide you with a tailored experience of our website

If you no longer consent to use of cookies

Your web browser should allow you to delete cookies relating to any website. This should have the effect to resetting your preferences. Next time you visit a website, you should be asked whether you consent to use.

Your web browser should also have settings that allow you to prevent or limit use of cookies.

Specific cookies that this website uses

Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.

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