Cookie Policy
Effective date: January 22, 2026
Last updated: January 22, 2026
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, improve security, enhance user experience, and provide information to website owners about how their site is being used.
Cookies may be temporary (session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser) or persistent (which remain on your device for a set period or until deleted).
This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
How do we use cookies?
We use both first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function correctly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They enable core functionality such as page navigation, security, and access to secure areas of the website.
Performance and analytics cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and how users move around the site. This allows us to measure performance and improve the website.
Functional cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as language or location preferences) to provide enhanced and more personalised features.
Advertising and targeting cookies
These cookies may be set by third-party providers to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites.
First-party cookies are set directly by our website and do not collect information that directly identifies you. Third-party cookies are set by external services that appear on our website and are used to help us analyse performance, maintain security, deliver relevant advertising, and improve your overall browsing experience.
Types of cookies we use
Manage cookie preferences
Consent PreferencesYou can modify your cookie settings anytime by clicking the 'Consent Preferences' button above. This will allow you to revisit the cookie consent banner and update your preferences or withdraw your consent immediately.
Additionally, different browsers offer various methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Below are links to support documents on how to manage and delete cookies in major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
If you are using a different web browser, please refer to its official support documentation.
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This Cookies Policy sets out how we, Signature Medical Ltd, use cookies and similar technologies on our website, www.signatureclinic.co.uk (website). We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to keep you fully informed about our latest practices involving cookies and similar technologies on our website. You should check this Cookies Policy each time you visit our website in order to find out whether our use of cookies and similar technologies has changed. The effective date of this Cookies Policy is 24 May 2018.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Why do we use cookies?
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
What type of cookies do we use?
The cookies we use are “analytical” cookies, which allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors, and to see how visitors navigate around the site when they use it. This helps us to improve the functionality of our site, for example by making sure that users can easily find what they are looking for.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
| _gat_gtag_UA_146446013_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics |
| NID | This cookie is used to a profile based on user’s interest and display personalized ads to the users. | 6 months | Advertisement |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics |
| __cfduid | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address d apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. | 11 months | Necessary |
Cookies used by our service providers
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
We also use Facebook Pixels from time to time. You can learn more about Facebook’c Cookie Policy on https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Can I block cookies?
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our site.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
When will the cookies expire?
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 3 year.
Copyright
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is owned by us and is protected by copyright laws. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.
About Us
www.signatureclinic.co.uk is owned and operated by Signature Medical Ltd (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’), a company incorporated and registered in Scotland with registration number SC607129 having its registered office at 1 Gordon Street, Dumfries, DG1 1EG
You can contact us:
- By post: 49 Crow Rd, Glasgow G11 7SH
- By telephone: 01412552737
- By email: [email protected]
