Cookie Policy
Last updated: November 2026
At Brand Brown, we use cookies and similar technologies to help our website work properly, understand how visitors use it and improve your experience.
This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage your preferences.
For information about how we collect and use personal information more generally, please read our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.
They help websites recognise your device, remember certain preferences and understand how visitors interact with pages and features.
Some cookies are necessary for a website to function. Others help with analytics, performance or additional website features.
Similar technologies, such as pixels, tags and local storage, may also be used for related purposes.
2. How we use cookies
Brand Brown may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are needed for essential website functions, such as security, navigation and remembering your cookie preferences. They cannot be switched off through our cookie preference tool where they are genuinely essential.
Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, including which pages are visited and how people navigate around the site. We use this information to help improve our website and its content.
Functional cookies
These may remember choices or preferences to make the website easier to use, where such features are in place.
Marketing and third-party cookies
These may be used by third-party services, embedded content or marketing tools to measure activity or provide relevant features. We will only use non-essential cookies of this kind where applicable consent has been given.
The categories above describe the purposes cookies may serve. The actual cookies used on our website are listed in the cookie information provided through our consent tool.
3. Cookies used on our website
We use CookieYes to help manage cookie consent and identify the cookies used on our website.
Our latest cookie scan identified the following cookies:
Necessary cookies
These cookies support essential website functions, security and the management of your cookie preferences.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookieyes-* | CookieYes | Manages cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Helps identify bots and protect website forms against spam | 6 months | |
| rc::a | Google reCAPTCHA | Helps identify bots and protect the website | Never expires |
| rc::f | Google reCAPTCHA | Helps identify bots and protect the website | Never expires |
| rc::b | Google reCAPTCHA | Helps identify bots and protect the website | Session |
| rc::c | Google reCAPTCHA | Helps identify bots and protect the website | Session |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube | Stores the user’s cookie consent state | 6 months |
Analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website and measure website performance.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and helps measure website usage | 1 year, 1 month and 4 days |
| ga* | Google Analytics | Stores and counts page views | 1 year, 1 month and 4 days |
| YSC | YouTube | Tracks views of embedded YouTube videos | Session |
Functional cookies
These cookies support the functionality and performance of embedded content.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube | Measures bandwidth to determine the appropriate video player interface | 6 months |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | YouTube | Stores the last search result entry selected to improve the user experience | Never expires |
Advertisement cookies
These cookies are associated with YouTube services and support security and the management of features and experiments.
| Cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-YNID | YouTube | Supports security and fraud prevention | 6 months |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | YouTube | Manages feature rollouts and experiments | 6 months |
| __Secure-YEC | YouTube | Description not available in the latest CookieYes scan | Past |
The cookies listed above were identified during our CookieYes scan on 11 November 2026. Cookies may change as we update our website, embedded content and third-party services. We review this information periodically and update it when necessary.
4. Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit our website, you will be given the opportunity to manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent banner.
You can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies, or customise your preferences where these options are available.
You can change your preferences at any time by selecting the cookie settings option on our website.
Essential cookies are required for the website to function and cannot be disabled through the consent tool.
You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please be aware that blocking certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website work.
5. Third-party services
Some cookies may be set by services provided by other organisations.
These may include website analytics, embedded content, social media features and other tools that support our website.
Where third-party services use non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we will seek consent where required.
Those organisations may process information in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.
6. How long cookies remain on your device
Some cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. These are known as session cookies.
Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.
The duration of each cookie depends on its purpose and provider. Details are provided in the cookie information available through our consent tool.
7. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the services we use or applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will always be available on this page, with the date of the most recent update shown at the top.
8. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact:
Brand Brown Ltd
Email: hello@brandbrown.co.uk
For further information about how we handle personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.