A. Deleting Cookies in Google Chrome

1. Click the wrench  icon. This is located at the upper-right hand corner of the window, just beside the bookmark star button.

2. In the drop down menu, select Options (or Settings in some versions). This action will direct you to Chrome’s browser setting page. Once you are there, click Under the Bonnet. 

3. Once you are inside the Under the Hood page, locate the Privacy section (usually at the upper part of the page) and click the Content Settings button.

4. In the Content Setting dialog, locate the Cookies section and click the All cookies and site data button.

5. When the complete list of cookies appears, click the Remove All button. This will delete all the cookies stored in your Google Chrome in just a few seconds of work.

Alternatively, you can directly navigate to the Cookies section of your browser and remove all data in just a few clicks of the mouse. To do this:

• Click the Clear browsing data under the Privacy section.
• In the dialogue box that will appear, check Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data. Then, click Clear browsing data.

B. Deleting Cookies in Firefox

1. In the Firefox browser menu, select Options (or Tools in some versions). A drop down menu will appear and, from there, select Options.

2. Then in the dialog box, click the Privacy tab. This will bring up the user-privacy options.

3. Locate the History section, and click the remove individual cookies link.

4. At the bottom of the Cookies dialog box that appears, click the button Remove All Cookies. The job is complete and the cookies are gone.

C. Deleting Cookies in Safari

1. If you are running Safari version 5 or higher, click the Gears menu located in the upper-right corner of the window.

2. Select Reset Safari.

3. In the dialog box that will appear, check the box with the label Remove all website data. After which, click the Reset button. This will eliminate all the cookies stored in your browser.

D. Deleting Cookies in Internet Explorer

1. If you are using the latest version of the browser, click the Tools menu in the Internet Explorer window.

2. From the drop down menu that will appear, select Delete Browsing History.

3. In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, select Cookies by checking the box next to it. Note: Uncheck everything else if you only want to remove cookies only and not the other stuff.

4. Click Delete. Voila! All the cookies stored in your browser are removed.

Deleting your cookies can significantly improve the speed and performance of your browser. Moreover, it also ensures that anyone using your computer will not see your private information. So, make it a habit to clear your cookie cabinet regularly.

Smart Traffic Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Smart Traffic Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1^st May 2012.

What we collect from you

We may collect the following information:

• name and job title
• contact information including email address
• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

For more on this, please see our ‘Cookies and Personal Data’ policy, available here on our website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes. If you do not tick this box, we may from time to time communicate relevant promotional information to you.

• If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at marketing@smart-traffic.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission to do so or are required by law to do so. At the moment we do not promote services offered by third parties via marketing communications, however in the future we may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Data Controller, Smart Traffic Ltd, Ten Victoria Street, Bristol, BS1 6BN

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at marketing@smart-traffic.co.uk . We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Our website uses a number of cookies to gain access to, and store data on, our visitor’s computers. For more information about cookies and what they are used for, please see http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

The following is our position in relation to current Cookies in use on our website, and how we store and use them.

In Summary

Our current assessment of the cookies used by our website is as follows:

FIRST PARTY COOKIES

First-party cookies are used to monitor how our clients and visitors find and use our website. We report on this activity in aggregate, and use this information solely for the purposes of improving the functionality of, and monitoring our website.

1) Session ID (PHPSESSID) - We use these to keep track of your movement from page to page, so you don’t get asked for the same information that you have already given to our site.

2) Google Analytics Cookies

__utma - These are used to determine unique visitors to your site. Expiration is 2 years.

__utmb–These are used to establish and continue a user session with your site. Expiration is 30 minutes.

__utmc–These are used to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. Expiration is after the browser is exited.

__utmz–These are used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within the site. Expiration is 6 months.

3) Consent cookie –These are used to keep track of whether or not the user has granted consent for cookies to be stored on their computer.

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

Third party cookies are cookies created by another party external to Smart Traffic, when you use a page on our website. These cookies are specific to the third-party’s domain and accordingly the data held in them can be seen and managed by the third party, and not by us. We control whether or not we use the third-party service with our website, and how it is integrated and presented on our website. We do not however have control over the content or the cookies themselves, the use made of them or the security of that data once held by the third party.

These third parties may collect information about your visit to our website, and they may then use this along with other data in order to serve advertising which may be more relevant to you and your interests. However, we recognise that some visitors may see this use of data as intrusive, so for your information we are listing the third party cookies that we use to allow you to manage your settings to your specifications.

The third party sites that we use are:

• Google Maps
• Google +1
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• ShareThis

We believe there is no reason for our website visitors to be concerned about the privacy implications of any of the cookies we use, but we do understand that you may need to be made aware of the intention and scope of data stored in the cookies, which are created or updated on your computer when you visit our website. You always have the option to delete these cookies from your computer between visits to our website if desired.

If you have concerns about the privacy implications of the cookies we use, then we recommend that you manage your cookie settings using the cookie management tools in your web browser.

OTHER COOKIES

We occasionally try out other providers which may result in the creation offurther cookies on your computer. If we are currently doing so then these providers and cookies will be listed here.

No other trials are currently running.

IS YOUR WEBSITE COOKIE COMPLIANT?

If you have a website yourself and are unsure as to whether it is EU cookie compliant, please contact us. We can conduct a full audit on your site and advise which cookies to continue using so that you are compliant. Contact marketing@smart-traffic.co.uk for more information.

For more information

For more information about how we use cookies, please contact us.

At Smart Traffic, we get excited by happy customers, and even more excited by Referrals. If you like what we do, and recommend our services to friend or associate, we want to say a big ‘Thank You’ for providing us with a new customer.

Join the Smart Traffic Referral Programme, and for every successful business referral you register, you will be rewarded in additional free SEO services.

Here’s how it works:

• Register for the Smart Traffic Referral Programme using the contact form on this page
• Begin registering referrals by completing the ‘Submit Business Referral’ box underneath. If you wish, you can also return and add more referrals at a later date.
• For all Referral customers that sign a contract worth £3,000 or more with Smart Traffic, you will receive an additional 20% in free SEO services for use towards your own website
• For all Referrals that sign up to contracts less than £3,000 in value, you will still receive up to 10% of that contract value in free SEO services.
• The process is straightforward- once you pass on your Referral, Smart Traffic will deal with the company directly. We will allocate your services once a contract is signed. It’s that simple.

For full Terms and Conditions please CLICK HERE.

Our website uses a number of cookies to store data on our visitor's computers.  For more information about managing cookies, please see http://www.aboutcookies.org/.  

In Summary

Our current assessment of the intrusiveness of the cookies used by our website is as follows:

• First-party cookies: we use cookies to monitor how visitors find and use our website.  We report on this activity in aggregate, and use this information solely for the purposes of monitoring and improving our website.
• Third-party cookies: we use a variety of widely-used third-party plugins as marketing tools for our own business and to provide convenience tools for our visitors.  In our belief the use of these plugins represents current "best practice".  We have no direct control over the content of the cookies they create, the use made of any data collected, or the security of that data. These third parties may collect information about your visit to our website, and they may use this with other data in order to serve advertising which may be more relevant to you. Some visitors may see this use of data as intrusive to some degree.

We believe there is no reason for our website visitors to be particularly concerned about the privacy implications of any of the cookies we use, but we do recognise the importance of making you aware of the purpose and scope of the data stored in the cookies which are created or updated on your computer when you visit our website. You may choose to delete these cookies from your computer between visits to our website.

We recommend that if you have concerns about the privacy implications of the cookies we use, then you should investigate how to do this using the cookie management tools in your web browser. 

In Detail: First party Cookies

First party cookies are specific to the host site that created them (in this case, escrivo.com).  They are not shared across domains and so cannot be accessed by a web server other than escrivo.com.

Session IDs: Our web server may create a session cookie called ASP.NET_SessionId ,which is essential for your use of some of the interative elements of the website, such as contact forms.  The cookie contains a session ID which is a mechanism for distinguishing your visit to our website from any other visitors that may be using the website at the same time. For more information you can read this technical article on the Microsoft website about Session IDs. This cookie expires when you leave our website.

Cookie Consent: If you have chosen to consent to our use of cookies, as outlined on this page, then we place a cookie called CookieConsent on your computer.  This stores the word "Yes" and is set to expire approximately 20 years after you first give us your consent.

Analytics: We use Google Analytics, which creates a number of first-party cookies, all prefixed __utm:

• __utma: contains a unique and anonymous identifying ID, which allows us to ensure that subsequent visits to our website are recorded as belonging to the same (unique) visitor. This cookie expires after two years.
• __utmb: used to establish and continue a unique user session. Each time you request another page from the website the cookie is updated to expire after 30minutes.
• __utmc: works with __utmb to determine when to create a new session for a website visitor. This is a session cookie and expires when you exit the browser.
• __utmz: tracks how you found us and is used to calculate traffic and navigation within the website. It is updated with every new page view and expires after 6 months.
• You may also sometimes find a __utmv cookie which relates to custom reporting segments, a feature which we occasionally use on Google Analytics.

Full details of the cookies which Google Analytics uses can be found in Cookies & Google Analytics in documentation for Google's Analytics tracking code. You can also read Google's Privacy Policy for Google Analytics. To opt out of our use of Google Analytics you may wish to consider using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Content Management and site navigation: Our content management tool creates a number of first-party cookies:

• graffitibot: our website's CMS provides some features to count views of pages on our website and uses this cookie to track your use of our website. We can report in aggregate against this tracking information, similar in functionality to Google Analytics. Graffitibot cookies expire 6hours after you leave our website, to allow us to catch situations where you make a return visit, e.g. later on the same day.
• Graffiti-Post-xx: these cookies are numbered (the "xx" is replaced with one or more numbers) and they are used in conjunction with the graffitibot cookie to track page views.  They expire when you leave our website.

• .Graffiti: this cookie is used to identify and authenticate users that have logged in to our website's CMS. This includes our website administrators and users that may have logged in to leave a comment on a news article or similar page. If you have not logged in then the cookie is still used; in this scenario it records that you are an unauthenticated user and this information is used when deciding the content to display to you (for example, if you are not logged in then we might need to display a login box for you). This cookie has an expiry date several weeks in the future so that we can implement "remember me" style functionality for our users.

In all cases these first-party cookies do not store any personal or sensitive information, or anything that makes you personally identifiable to us.

We use the data that is collected using these first-party cookies to report, in aggregate, how our visitors find and use our website; we use those reports to understand overall visitor behaviour, and we use that understanding to update and improve our website.

In Detail: Third-party cookies

Third party cookies are cookies created by an external service when you use a page on our website. These cookies are specific to the third-party's domain and accordingly the data held in them can be seen and managed by the third party and not by us. We control whether or not we use the third-party service with our website, and how it is integrated and presented on our website. We do not have control over the cookies themselves. 

• We use Google Maps on our Contact Us page to provide detailed information on how to locate our office.  Google Maps stores up to four cookies: khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF. We use Google's interactive maps because we believe they provide a helpful way for our visitors to identify how best to travel to us. We use the Google Maps tools on the basis that Google adheres to its privacy policy which can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ and its terms of service for Google Maps at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/help/terms_maps.html. 
• We currently use the Google "+1" plugin to help us market and promote our business using Google's services.  The plugin allows visitors to use the "+1" button to recommend our website to their contacts.  The plugin creates at least two cookies, BEAT (a persistent cookie set to expire after 1 day) and ULS (a session cookie).  We use the plugin as a convenience for our visitors, and we use it on the basis that Google adheres to its privacy policy – see http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ for more information.
• We currently use the Facebook "Like Box" plugin to help us market our business using the Facebook Social Network. The plugin detects whether you have "Liked" our Facebook page and uses this information to present either a "Like" button or a "You Like this" message with various other associated details from Facebook. If you are not logged in to Facebook, no cookies should be served. If you are logged in to Facebook, the plugin creates and/or updates a series of third-party cookies. We use the plugin as a convenience for our visitors, and we use it on the basis that Facebook adheres to its data use policy – see http://www.Facebook.com/about/privacy/ for more information. 
• We currently use the Twitter "Follow Button" plugin to help us market our business using Twitter. The plugin detects whether you are logged in to Twitter when you visit our website and uses this information to present either a "Follow" or "You Follow" message with various other details from Twitter. The plugin creates five Third-Party cookies – pid, _twitter_sess, k, guest_id and original_referer – if a visitor accesses the site when not logged into Twitter, and a further cookies if accessed while logged on to Twitter. We use the plugin as a convenience for our users and we use it on the basis that Twitter adheres to its Privacy Policy – see http://twitter.com/privacy for more information.
• We currently use the LinkedIn "Share" and "Follow" plugins to help us market our business using LinkedIn.  The plugin detects whether you are logged in to LinkedIn when you visit our website, and uses this information to present appropriately-worded Follow and Share messages with various other details from LinkedIn.  The plugin creates or updates three persistent cookies (bcookie, visit, leoauth_token) and up to eight session cookies (JSESSIONID, lang, IN_HASH, _lipt, sl, s_leo_auth_token and two X-LI-IDC cookies which are on different paths on their site).  We use the plugin as a convenience for our users and we use it on the basis that LinkedIn adheres to its Privacy Policy – see http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy for more information.  

• We currently use YouTube to host video content.  When you view a web page on our site with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube creates at least three cookies: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, use_hitbox, and PREF.  In some circumstances you may also find an additional GEO cookie. We use the YouTube service as a convenience for our visitors, and we use it on the basis that Google adheres to its privacy policy – see http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/ for more information.

• We currently use PayPal to provide an online invoice payment facility.  The PayPal and credit card logo images are loaded direct from PayPal's servers (this is regarded as best practice to ensure that card scheme logos are kept as up to date as possible) and in serving these images PayPal serves two cookies. The first cookie, "Apache", is a persistent cookie set to expire in 30 years' time.  The second is a session cookie and is given a random name. We use PayPal as a convenience for our visitors and we use it on the basis that PayPal adheres to its Privacy Policy – see  https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/Privacy_full&locale.x=en_US#How we use cookies for more information.

In Detail: Flash Local Shared Object (LSO) storage

If you want to manage the contents of your Flash Local Shared Objects, please use Adobe's Website Storage Settings panel here.

We rarely use Flash technology on our website, however in some limited circumstances we may use Flash as follows:

• YouTube video: We may periodically use the YouTube service to host video content, and embed YouTube's player in our web pages to allow you to watch the video without leaving our website.  YouTube's embedded player currently creates and updates two Flash LSO objects from s.ytimg.com. The LSOs are soundData (which appears to store volume setting preferences) and videostats (which appears to store performance-related information).  We have no direct control over YouTube's use of the data stored in this object. For more information, please read YouTube's privacy policy at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/.

In Detail: Other cookies we may be using

We occasionally trial other services which may create cookies on your computer. If we are currently doing so then these trials will be listed here.

No other trials are currently running.

For more information

For more information about how we use cookies, please contact us.

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