Cookie policy
This policy explains how LegionellaSampling.co.uk uses cookies and similar technologies. Essential cookies keep the website working. Optional analytics and marketing tools load only after you give permission.
1. Who we are
This website is operated by Legionella Sampling. Contact: hello@legionellasampling.co.uk. See our privacy policy for how we use personal information.
2. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include pixels, local storage, and software development kits. Some are essential for the site to work. Others remember preferences, measure visits, or support marketing.
UK rules on cookies and similar technologies are in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), as amended, including changes made by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. Where a cookie identifies you, the UK GDPR also applies.
3. How we use them
Strictly necessary
These are required to provide the service you ask for, such as a page load, a shopping basket, checkout, security, or remembering your cookie choice. They do not need consent. The site will not work properly if you block them.
Functional
Some optional tools remember your choices, such as whether you have dismissed the newsletter signup popup. These popup preferences are included in our marketing category and are used only with your permission.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand visits, pages viewed and interactions with the website. Google Analytics loads only when you allow analytics cookies.
Marketing
We use Google Ads to measure advertising conversions and Mailchimp to show our newsletter signup popup. These tools load only when you allow marketing cookies. Rejecting marketing cookies does not prevent you buying a kit or using the website's ordinary contact and newsletter forms.
4. Cookies we use
The following cookies and browser storage are used by the website and its optional tools. Names ending in an asterisk cover cookies or storage entries with an installation-specific suffix. Your browser may apply a shorter lifetime.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Legionella Sampling | Keeps your login, basket and checkout session, and supports form security | 30 days | Strictly necessary |
| legionella_cookie_consent | Legionella Sampling | Remembers whether you allowed or rejected analytics and marketing cookies | 180 days | Strictly necessary |
| _ga and _ga_* | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and maintains analytics session information | Up to 2 years | Analytics — only with consent |
| _gcl_*, including _gcl_au and _gcl_aw | Google Ads | Records advertising interactions and measures conversions | Typically 90 days | Marketing — only with consent |
| mcforms-* cookies | Mailchimp | Maintains the newsletter popup session | Session | Marketing — only with consent |
| mcforms-* browser storage | Mailchimp | Remembers popup views, dismissals and interactions | Session storage ends when the tab closes. Local storage remains until removed by Mailchimp, cleared in your browser or removed when you withdraw marketing consent. | Marketing — only with consent |
Our website uses Cloudflare for delivery and security. Cloudflare may set security cookies when checking traffic or presenting a security challenge. Details of their names, purposes and lifetimes are available in Cloudflare's cookie information.
Stripe provides our card checkout and payment-method forms. Its payment and fraud-prevention tools may set their own cookies when you use those features. See Stripe's cookie policy.
Further details about optional provider cookies are available from Google Analytics, Google Ads and Mailchimp. Google may also set advertising cookies on its own domains after you allow marketing cookies.
5. Your choices
- Use the cookie banner to accept all cookies, reject optional cookies or choose analytics and marketing separately. Both optional categories are off until you choose them.
- Use “Cookie settings” in the footer to change or withdraw your choices at any time. We remember your choice for 180 days, after which we ask again.
- Withdrawing permission stops the relevant tools on subsequent page loads and removes their accessible cookies and Mailchimp popup storage on this website. The page reloads to stop tools that were already running. Cookies set on a provider's own domain can be removed through your browser settings.
- Rejecting non-essential cookies will not stop you buying a kit.
- You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop the basket or checkout from working.
Browser help pages:
- Google Chrome: support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Mozilla Firefox: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop
- Apple Safari: support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
- Microsoft Edge: support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
Industry opt-out information is also available from YourOnlineChoices (youronlinechoices.com).
6. Changes
We will update this policy when the cookies on the site change. The date at the top will show the latest version.