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Cookie policy

Last updated: 20/09/2026

This page explains what this website stores on your device, and what it does not. It covers cookies and anything similar, such as information kept in your browser's local storage.

The short version

This website stores nothing on your device unless you agree to it, with one small exception: a cookie that records your answer when we ask.

We use one measurement tool, Google Analytics 4, and it only runs if you accept it. When you first visit, a banner asks. If you reject it, or simply never answer, Google Analytics does not load and nothing of Google's is stored on your device or requested from your browser.

Nothing else on this site is loaded from any other company. There is no advertising, no marketing pixels, no social media trackers, no chat widget, no booking tool, no embedded maps or videos, and no spam checking service from an outside supplier. Even our fonts are served from our own server rather than from a font company.

What we store, and why

There are two categories in law. Things that are strictly necessary to provide the website or a service you have asked for, which do not require your consent. And everything else, which does.

Strictly necessary

One cookie, and only after you have answered the banner:

  • mg_consent — records whether you accepted or rejected analytics cookies, so that we do not keep asking you. Set by this website, not by Google. Lifetime: 180 days. It exists only to record the choice you made, which is why it does not itself need consent.

Beyond that, nothing, for an ordinary visitor. Browsing this site, and filling in and submitting the quote form, stores nothing on your device. The security token that protects the quote form is sent inside the form itself rather than saved on your computer, and our page caching does not set anything for visitors.

There is one exception, and it never applies to you unless you work here: if one of our own staff signs in to the website's administration area, the website sets a session cookie so that it knows they are signed in. That is strictly necessary for them to do their job and it is never set for anyone else.

Analytics, with your consent

If, and only if, you press Accept on the banner, we load Google Analytics 4. It helps us see which pages are useful and which are not, in aggregate. It sets:

  • _ga — distinguishes one visitor from another. Set by Google. Lifetime: 2 years.
  • _ga_8GFB1VM4H5 — keeps track of your visit as one session. Set by Google. Lifetime: 2 years.

Google also processes this information for its own purposes, which is exactly why we ask first. Some analytics no longer needs consent in the UK: since 5 February 2026 there has been a narrow exception for statistics used purely to improve a service, where the information stays with the site operator. Google Analytics does not fall inside that exception, so we ask.

The cookie banner

When you first visit, a banner asks whether we may set analytics cookies. It keeps the promises this page made before analytics was added:

  • accepting and rejecting are equally easy, and side by side;
  • nothing is pre ticked, and carrying on browsing does not count as agreement;
  • Google Analytics does not load at all unless and until you accept;
  • you can change your mind at any time from the Cookie settings link in the footer, which clears your answer and asks again;
  • the banner never blocks the page, the phone numbers or the quote form.

How we keep the quote form free of spam, without a third party

Our quote form is how people tell us a gate has stopped working. Left unprotected, it fills with automated junk and a real emergency gets buried underneath it.

We protect it using checks built into our own website rather than an outside service such as a CAPTCHA or a challenge widget. In plain terms: a hidden field that a person never sees, a check on how quickly the form was completed, a security token tied to your visit, a limit on repeated submissions from the same connection, and full checking of everything you send on our own server.

None of this stores anything on your device, and none of it contacts another company. Nothing about you is shared with anyone as a result of it. It is described more fully in our privacy policy.

How to control cookies yourself

You can see, block and delete what any website stores on your device from your browser's own settings. Every major browser lets you do this, and most have a help page explaining how. You can also reject or later withdraw analytics here on the site itself: use the banner, or the Cookie settings link in the footer.

If you block everything as a general setting, parts of this site may stop working, including the quote form.

Changes to this policy

We update this page whenever what the site stores changes, and we change the date at the top when we do. The 20/09/2026 update is the change this page previously promised: Google Analytics 4 was added, the consent banner appeared in the same change, and the cookies above were listed by name, purpose and lifetime on the same day.

Questions

Email privacy@mrgates.co.uk for anything about data protection, or sales@mrgates.co.uk, or ring 01442 506 390. Our privacy policy explains what we do with personal information more generally, and our terms of use cover the use of this website.

Mr Gates Fabrication Specialists Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 06883838. Registered office: Oxford House, Northbridge Road, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire HP4 1EH.