Privacy and Cookies Policy

Introduction

McCarthy Stone respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important information and who we are

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how McCarthy Stone collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you register your interest in a McCarthy Stone development, sign up to a McCarthy Stone newsletter or take part in a competition.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller

McCarthy Stone is made up of different legal entities and this privacy notice is issued on behalf of the McCarthy Stone Group. When we mention "McCarthy Stone", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the McCarthy Stone Group responsible for processing your data. McCarthy & Stone Retirement Lifestyles Limited is the controller and responsible for this website.

We have appointed a data protection manager (DPM) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice please contact the DPM using the details set out below.

Contact details

Email address: [email protected]

Postal address: FAO: Data Protection Manager – McCarthy & Stone plc, 4th Floor 100 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth BH8 8AQ.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the privacy notice

This version was last updated on 27 October 2022.

Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

Please note, calls to or from McCarthy Stone may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes.

Where relevant we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website
Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

We do not collect the following Special Categories of Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union memberships information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.

This includes personal data you provide when you:

register your interest in one of our developments via the website;
register your interest in one of our developments via the phone;
subscribe to marketing communications or publications;
attend an event
enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy below for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

Technical Data from the following parties:

analytics providers;
advertising networks; and
search information providers.

Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators.
Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources.
Identity and Contact Data via estate agent customer referrals and/or homeowner referrals

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where you have provided us with your specific and informed consent;
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests; and
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Click to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below::

Purpose/Activity	Type of data	Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To input you as a new customer on our internal database	(a) Identity (b) Contact	Consent
To progress your interest in our products and services	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (c) Consent (where appropriate)
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to conduct surveys etc. (c) Inviting you to events/sending you newsletters	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications	(a) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) (c) Consent
To enable you to partake in a prize draw(s) and enter into a competition	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications	(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) (c) Consent
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical	(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical	(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) (b) Consent
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences	(a) Technical (b) Usage	Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about other goods or services that may be of interest to you outside the scope of your primary request	(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile	Consent

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. If you wish to update the nature of your consent or your communication preferences please contact 0800 201 4499.

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have provided us with your specific and informed consent to receiving such marketing and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Third-party marketing

We may occasionally share your personal data with companies outside the McCarthy Stone group of companies, such as Google and Facebook, for marketing purposes, however we shall always ensure that the necessary data processing agreements are in place between our businesses to ensure the security of any data processing.

Opting out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by visiting our website or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you. Or by emailing [email protected] or calling 0800 201 4499.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our website.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.

External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions and the signed data processing agreement between us and them.

6. International transfers

Some of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is met:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. Glossary

LAWFUL BASIS

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

THIRD PARTIES

We will share your data with the property management company who provides the management service at your development.

This will be either Your Life Management Services Limited or McCarthy Stone Management Services Limited depending on your development. We also use third party data processors who provide certain aspects of the services at your development, for example catering contractors or personal alarm providers. We have contracts in place with all of our data processors which means that they can only process your personal data in accordance with our express instructions. They cannot share your personal data with any other organisation apart from us and must process any personal data securely and in accordance with data protection law.

Where you have entered into a contract for us to support your house move, we may share your personal data with third parties. Such third parties could include solicitors, estate agents, removals companies, and home exchange companies.

There are also some circumstances in which we are legally obliged to share information, for example with local authorities.

We may occasionally share your information with third parties, such as Google and Facebook, for marketing purposes.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

No fee usually required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Our cookie policy

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto ‘terminal equipment’ (e.g. a computer or smartphone) when the user accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise that user’s device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions.

How does a Cookie relate to your personal data?

The GDPR explicitly states that online identifiers, even if they are pseudonymous or if they do not directly identify an individual, will be considered personal data if there is potential for an individual to be identified or singled out. Therefore, any persistent cookie that is unique to the device by virtue of its attributes or stored values fits the criteria for personal data.

Because of this, we must ask for your consent to use cookies when you access our site whilst also making it just as easy for you to withdraw this consent at a later date should you wish to.

Which cookies do McCarthy Stone use?

The below accordion details the Cookies that we use and the purpose for which this Cookie is used.

Strictly necessary cookies

Some cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we will not be able to connect you to our site properly.

We spend a lot of time and effort ensuring that our site remains available all the time; to do that we have web servers running in many different locations. In order to ensure that your journey through the site works properly we like to keep you connected to the same locations. It also allows us to spread the load, meaning our site remains as performant as it can be.

Local Storage

In addition to cookies, local storage allows us to use a tiny bit of space on your machine to store information, in much the same way as cookies. We use this to store information which, we feel, enhances your journey through the site by remembering previous actions and making them default for the future. All local storage is persistent, with no expiry.

Cookie	Detail
__adal_root_domain_test_#	Used in our blog pages, this is an Adalyser test cookie.
__cfduid	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
__RequestVerificationToken	Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
CONSENT	Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
CookieConsent	Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain
debug	Cookie used to view our digital books.
ASP.NET_SessionId	Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests.
JSESSIONID	Preserves users states across page requests.
rc::a	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
rc::b	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
rc::c	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
what-intent	Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly.
smartlook_ban_reason	This cookie is used to detect errors on the website - this information is sent to the website's support staff in order to optimize the visitor's experience on the website.
_GRECAPTCHA	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots and used during form submission. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
_conv_v	This cookie is the visitor-centric cookie that has a lifetime of max 6 months from the last update time. It is used for A/B testing by Convert.
_conv_s	This cookie is a session centric cookie that has a lifetime of 20 minutes since the last update (last browsing activity). It is used for A/B testing by Convert.
_conv_r	This cookie holds the referral data for the current visitor. This is overwritten each time a visitor comes from a new referrer.
_conv_sptest	This is a temporary cookie used for redirect experiments. On the original page that would get redirected to another, this cookie is set with an expiration of a couple seconds. Then, on the page where it's redirecting, that cookie is used to store stats.
mcs-actions-tracking-level	This cookie is used to store your cookie settings (strictly, functional, marketing).
recently-viewed-developments	This cookie is used to store your recently viewed developments and expires after 1 month.
recently-viewed-plots	This cookie is used to store your recently viewed plots and expires after 1 month.
__cf_bm	This cookie is necessary to support Cloudflare's Bot Management feature.
__sharethis_cookie_test__	This cookie is necessary to support ShareThis feature. It is used to track which pages are being shared.
acsbReset	This cookie stores selections made by the user in the Accessibe tool in order to maintain those settings on future visits.

These cookies allow us to understand how people use our website and where they came from, so that we can measure and improve the performance of our website, as well as to remember your preferences. They help us see which pages are the most and least popular, and how visitors move around the website. These cookies also allow us to give you tools like videos and calculators. When we use the information from these cookies it is grouped together and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our website and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Statistics

Cookie	Detail
_ga	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_ga_4E2NQHHCQ3	Google Analytics cookie to store and count pageviews. 1 year expiration date.
_gat	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_gid	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
ably-transport-preference	Third party cookie used when displaying virtual tours.
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE	Used by Sitecore Engagement Analytics to identify the visitor on repeat visits to the website.
f0189a22486d#	Script tag: Unclassified
mf_[session]	This cookie identifies the browser session while it happens. The cookie is deleted as soon as the session ends, meaning when the user leaves the website.
mf_user	This cookie establishes whether the user is a returning or first time visitor. This is done simply by a yes/no toggle - no further information about the user is stored. This cookie has a lifetime of 90 days.
_gaexp	Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. Depends on the length of the experiment, but typically 90 days.
_opt_awcid	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Customer IDs. This cookie has a lifetime of 24 hours.
_opt_awmid	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Campaign IDs. This cookie has a lifetime of 24 hours.
_opt_awgid	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Ad Group IDs. This cookie has a lifetime of 24 hours.
_opt_awkid	Used for campaigns mapped to Google Ads Criterion IDs. This cookie has a lifetime of 24 hours.
_opt_utmc	Stores the last utm_campaign query parameter. This cookie has a lifetime of 24 hours.
_opt_expid	This cookie is created when running a redirect experiment. It stores the experiment ID, the variant ID and the referrer to the page that's being redirected. This cookie has a lifetime of 10 seconds.
talkative_ecs__eu__UUID__last_visited_url	Provides the last visited page URL (session)
talkative_ecs__eu__UUID__journey_entries	Provides the last visited page URLs to show to the agent (session)
talkative_ecs__eu__UUID__push_prompt_dismissed	Lets Talkative know if the widget should show the prompt for push notifications (session)
talkative_ecs__eu__UUID__widget_is_controlled_fullscreen	Lets Talkative know if the widget is fullscreen or not (session)
talkative_ecs__eu__UUID__widget_is_visible	Lets Talkative know if the widget is open or not (session)
talkative_ecs__eu__UUID__dismissed_nudges	Tracks which chat widget nudges have been dismissed by the user (session)
Mint[av]	This cookie is used to monitor site traffic for the purpose of media/advertising analytics. This cookie has a lifetime of 90 days.
tq_[id]	This cookie is used to monitor site traffic for the purpose of media/advertising analytics. This cookie has a lifetime of 30 days.
t_gid	This cookie is used to monitor site traffic for the purpose of media/advertising analytics.
EDAAT	EDAAT stores a temporary security token used only on EDAA opt out pages like http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.
TDID	Trade Desk ID (TDID) is the main cookie and ID used to recognise web-browser profiles over time across sites.
TDCPM	Trade Desk Cookie Partner Mapping (TDCPM) records whch partners The Trade Desk has matched IDs with in order to prevent redundant matching calls.
TTDOptOut	TTDOptOut stores a static value recording the user's choice to opt out. It should be exclusive of the other cookie, so The Trade Desk will not have an ID on the browser when the TTDOptOut cookie is present.
FPID	This HTTP cookie is named FPID (First Party Identifier) and stores a value used for setting the Client ID in the request to Google's servers.
FPLC	This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It's not HttpOnly , which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime, just 20 hours.

These cookies record your visit to the McCarthy Stone website, the individual pages you visit, the links you follow and the type of device you use. We will use this information to make the McCarthy Stone website and the adverts we show you more relevant to your interests. Our use of these cookies might also mean that you may see McCarthy Stone adverts when you visit Facebook. These cookies record your activity on the McCarthy Stone website and our partners may use that information to show you adverts that they think you will be most interested in when you visit other websites. Our partners may also use information recorded by these cookies to see how well their adverts are performing. If you do not allow these cookies, you may see more content and adverts that do not match your interests.

Cookie	Detail
_fbp	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
_gcl_au	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
_uetsid	Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
_uetsid_exp	Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name.
_uetvid	Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
_uetvid_exp	Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name.
adal_out_queue_adalyserTracker_get	Used to track the visitor across multiple devices including TV. This is done in order to re-target the visitor through multiple channels.
bcookie	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
bscookie	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
d/px	Collects data on visitors' preferences and behaviour on the website - This information is used make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor.
ads/ga-audiences	Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites.
ep201	Saves user states across page requests when completing a web-based survey.
ep202	Saves user states across page requests when completing a web-based survey.
events/1/#	Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers.
IDE	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
fr	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
i/adsct	The cookie is used by Twitter.com in order to determine the number of visitors accessing the website through twitter advertisement content.
SL_C_23361dd035530_KEY, SL_C_23361dd035530_SID, SL_C_23361dd035530_VID	Collects statistical data related to the user's website visits, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded. The purpose is to segment the website's users according to factors such as demographics and geographical location, in order to enable media and marketing agencies to structure and understand their target groups to enable customised online advertising.
lang	Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded "Follow us" panel.
li_sugr	Used by LinkedIn to store browser details.
lidc	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
lissc	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
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MUID	Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains.
NID	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
pagead/1p-user-list/#	Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites.
pagead/landing	Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement.
pardot	Used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement - The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers.
personalization_id	This cookie is set by Twitter - The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile.
RUL
smartlook_ban_expire	Collects information on user preferences and/or interaction with web-campaign content - This is used on CRM-campaign-platform used by website owners for promoting events or products.
test_cookie	Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.
tr	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
tracking/track/v3/p	Used to track the visitor across multiple devices including TV. This is done in order to re-target the visitor through multiple channels.
tuuid	Collects visitor data related to the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads.
tuuid_lu	Contains a unique visitor ID, which allows Bidswitch.com to track the visitor across multiple websites. This allows Bidswitch to optimize advertisement relevance and ensure that the visitor does not see the same ads multiple times.
UserMatchHistory	Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
visitor_id#	The visitor cookie includes a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345 stores the visitor ID 1010101010. The account identifier, 12345, makes sure that the visitor is tracked on the correct Pardot account. The visitor value is the visitor_id in your Pardot account. This cookie is set for visitors by the Pardot tracking code.
visitor_id#-hash	The visitor hash cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345-hash stores the hash “855c3697d9979e78ac404c4ba2c66533”, and the account ID is 12345. This cookie is a security measure to make sure that a malicious user can’t fake a visitor from Pardot and access corresponding prospect information.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
YSC	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
yt-remote-cast-installed	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-connected-devices	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-device-id	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-fast-check-period, ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-app	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt-remote-session-name	Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
yt.innertube::nextId, yt.innertube::requests, yt-remote-cast-available	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
A1	Used by Verizon Media to perform analytics on their Products and Services to understand how users interact with them. To build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
A3	Used by Verizon Media to perform analytics on their Products and Services to understand how users interact with them. To build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
B	Used by Verizon Media to perform analytics on their Products and Services to understand how users interact with them. To build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
OTH	Used by Verizon Media to perform analytics on their Products and Services to understand how users interact with them.
rxx	Used by Verizon Media to perform analytics on their Products and Services to understand how users interact with them.
adaptv_unique_user_cookie	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
apeaf	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
APID	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
BX	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
IDSYNC	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
T	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
ymuid	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
Y	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
yvapF	Used by Verizon Media to build an interest profile by linking information about your device and online activity with the unique identifier associated with your device.
DSID, id,	Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads.
pm_sess, pm_sess_NNN aboutads_sessNNN	Cookies used for functionality allow users to interact with a service or site to access features that are fundamental to that service. Things considered fundamental to the service include preferences like the user’s choice of language, product optimizations that help maintain and improve a service, and maintaining information relating to a user’s session, such as the content of a shopping cart.
FPAU, AID, TAID, FPGCLDC, _gcl_dc	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads.
__gads, ANID, IDE, FLC, RUL	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads.
ad-privacy, ad-id	Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. Amazon uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads
_SS	This is a Microsoft cookie used for Microsoft advertising.
SRCHD, SRCHUID, SRCHHPGUSR, SRCHUSR	This is a Microsoft cookie used for Microsoft advertising.
NAP	This is a Microsoft cookie used for Microsoft advertising. Contains an encrypted version of your country, postal code, age, gender, language and occupation, if known, based on your Microsoft account profile.
ANON	Contains the ANID, a unique identifier derived from your Microsoft account, which is used for advertising, personalization, and operational purposes. It is also used to preserve your choice to opt out of interest-based advertising from Microsoft if you have chosen to associate the opt-out with your Microsoft account.
ln_or	Cookie from LinkedIn. It registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website.
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY	Third party cookie from YouTube. Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
nextId	Third party cookie from YouTube. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
remote_sid	Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website.
requests	Third party cookie from YouTube. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
TESTCOOKIESENABLED	Third party cookie from YouTube. Checks to see if cookies have been enabled by the browser.

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