Cookies on MGBrown.com

This web site uses some strictly nesessary cookies to make this web site work.

We would also like to set additional cookies to understand how you use MGBrown.com, remember your settings and improve our services.

Cookies

Use of cookies by MGBrown.com

Cookies are small peices of information that are left on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The details below explain the cookies used by MGBrown.com, what they are used for and how to opt out.

Cookie Consent

When you first visit this site, a notice at the top of the web page asks for your consent to cookies. You will be re-asked this question on every web page visit, until you either accept or reject the optional cookies. At this point a cookie is created to remember your choice.

Even after consenting to or rejecting cookies, you will be re-asked this question periodically. If you wish to change your choice before then, simply click the button below.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required by MGBrown.com to function properly or for security reasons.

Name Purpose Expiry
CookieConsent This stores whether you have concented to having optional cookies left on your machine. It may contain details about which individual cookies are allowed or whether whole categories of cookies are allowed. It also contains the date you last confirmed your cookie preference. 90 days
Catpcha This is used by both the comments section and the contact-us page to make the Catchpa work. It stores the Catchpa code and the time it was set in an encrypted format. When a submission is recievied if the code is different or the time is significantly out then the request is rejected. End of browser session

Cookies that measure website use

This site uses Google Analytics to collect annonomysed information about how you use MGBrown.com. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements to the site.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • how you got to the site
  • the pages you visit on MGBrown.com and how long you spend on them
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site
  • whether you have visited before to distinguish new users from repeat users

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

Name Purpose Expiry
_ga Used to distinguish users. 2 years
_gid Used to distinguish users. 24 hours
_gat_gtag_UA_242375_1 Used to throttle request rate. 1 minute

For more information about how these cookies are used please read Google's cookies overview.