Cookie Policy

How cookies are used on our website

Cookies are small text files that we use on our website to improve a user’s experience when browsing our site. Cookies are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. You are free to adjust your browser setting so that it does not permit the use of cookies. Otherwise, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the site.

By law, we can store cookies on your machine if they are essential to the operation of the site. We need your permission to store other types of cookie, where those cookies help us improve your user experience by gaining useful knowledge about how the site is used. We do not use non-essential cookies to track individual users or to identify them.

This site uses First and Third Party Cookies. First Party cookies are those set by the Doyle Clayton website and Third Party cookies are cookies set by another website through our website.

First party cookies

Third party cookies

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service used by many other law firms and provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyse how users use the site. It counts the number of visitors and provides us with information about such things as the typical length of stay on the site or the average number of pages a user views.

The information gathered by the cookie about your use of our site (including your IP address) will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information in order to evaluate your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may have to disclose this information to third parties were required by law to do so, or where those third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.　 Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. For more information about Google analytic cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy.

HubSpot

If you visit our website, we use HubSpot, a CRM platform provided by HubSpot, Inc. and HubSpot Ireland Limited, to help us understand how visitors engage with the website and to assist us in enhancing site navigation, site usage analysis, and our marketing efforts. We may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics.

If you would like to opt-out of the HubSpot cookies, you can do so by managing your cookie preferences on our website.

For further information on HubSpot’s cookie policy, please click here.

Hotjar

Some of our webpages use services provided by Hotjar Ltd including heatmaps, visitor recordings, funnels and form analysis, feedback polls, surveys and recruiters. The information generated by the tracking code and cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Hotjar on servers in Ireland. Through the Hotjar tracking code the information collected includes:

Device-specific data: The following information may be collected through your device and browser

• your device’s IP address (collected and stored in an anonymized format);
• your email address including first name and surname;
• device screen size;
• device type (unique device identifiers) and browser information;
• geographic location (country only);
• preferred language used to display the webpage.
• Log data: Our servers automatically record information which is created upon using Hotjar. Data includes:
  • referring domain;
  • pages visited;
  • geographic location (country only);
  • preferred language used to display the webpage;
  • date and time when website pages were accessed;

Hotjar will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. It uses a variety of services hosted by third parties, such as Google Analytics and Optimizely. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, such as cookies or your IP request. For information on how Google Analytics and Optimizely collect and use your information, please refer to their privacy policies.

You may opt out of Hotjar by visiting https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out

If you decline cookies in your browser

If you decline all cookies in your browser, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

If you decline non-essential cookies in your browser, the site will still work and you will be able to get information from the site. However, in order to make the user experience more relevant and useful to you, we rely on cookies to determine your interests as tracked through your browsing behaviour. We will not be able to offer these sort of services if you decline non-essential cookies. We will also not be able to count your site usage in the statistics that we gather about the use of the site, and we use this data when seeking to improve our service.

If you have not declined cookies in your browser and use our site, you accept the use of cookies for the purposes set out above.

Managing your cookie preferences

You can update your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the shield icon located at the bottom left of the page.