Cookies
This page explains how tcc.group uses cookies and similar technologies, what each category is for, and how you can change your choices at any time.
- Policy owner
- TCC Group
Our default is off
Except for cookies that are strictly necessary, nothing is set until you choose to allow it. Analytics and advertising storage start in a denied state on every visit and are only enabled once you consent, using Google Consent Mode v2. If your browser sends a recognised privacy signal, advertising consent stays off regardless of any banner interaction.
Cookie categories
We group cookies into four categories. Only the first is always on.
| Category | Default | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Always active | Required for the website to function, including security, load balancing and remembering your cookie choices. These cannot be switched off. |
| Functional | Off until you allow it | Remembers your preferences and enables enhanced website features. |
| Analytics | Off until you allow it | Helps us understand how visitors interact with our website so we can improve it. |
| Advertising | Off until you allow it | Enables personalised advertising based on your browsing behaviour. |
Cookies we may set
Third-party cookies are only set once you have allowed the relevant category. Retention periods are set by the provider and may change.
| Cookie | Provider | Category | Purpose | Typical retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tcc-consent | tcc.group | Necessary | Stores your cookie choices and the version of this policy you saw, so we do not ask again on every page. | 12 months |
| _ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and measures how the site is used. | Up to 24 months |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes visitors for short-term usage reporting. | 24 hours |
| _gcl_* | Google Ads | Advertising | Measures whether an advert led to a useful visit. | Up to 90 days |
| IDE, test_cookie | DoubleClick / Google Ads | Advertising | Used to show and measure adverts across other websites. | Up to 13 months |
| li_sugr, UserMatchHistory, bcookie | Advertising | Supports LinkedIn advertising and conversion measurement. | Up to 6 months | |
| __hs*, hubspotutk | HubSpot | Analytics | Recognises returning visitors and links enquiry form submissions. | Up to 13 months |
| _clck | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | Keeps the Clarity user ID and preferences for this website, so visits are attributed to the same user ID. | 12 months |
| _clsk | Microsoft Clarity | Analytics | Connects several page views by one user into a single Clarity session recording. | 1 day |
| CLID | Microsoft | Analytics | Set on Clarity’s domain. Identifies the first time Clarity saw this browser on any site that uses Clarity. | Set by Microsoft |
| MUID | Microsoft | Analytics | Set on Microsoft domains. Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites; Microsoft uses it for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes. | Set by Microsoft |
| ANONCHK | Microsoft | Analytics | Indicates whether MUID is transferred to Microsoft’s advertising cookie ANID. Clarity does not use ANID, so this is always 0. | Set by Microsoft |
| MR | Microsoft | Analytics | Indicates whether to refresh MUID. | Set by Microsoft |
| SM | Microsoft | Analytics | Used to synchronise MUID across Microsoft domains. | Set by Microsoft |
| wordpress_*, wp-settings-* | tcc.group | Necessary | Set only for signed-in site administrators to keep them authenticated. | Session to 12 months |
Microsoft Clarity
Where it is active, Microsoft Clarity records how pages on this website are used, such as clicks, scrolling, mouse movement and the page layout seen, so that we can study usage and improve the website. It runs only after you allow analytics. If you also allow advertising, Clarity may share its data with Microsoft Advertising; withdrawing advertising ends that sharing. If you withdraw analytics consent, the Clarity cookies on this website, _clck and _clsk, are deleted, and a page on which Clarity was running reloads without it. Microsoft’s own cookies on its domains can be removed only through your browser controls. Microsoft describes these cookies in its Clarity cookie list.
Changing your choices
You can review or change your choices at any time on the cookie settings page. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it, and takes effect immediately for any further storage. Cookies already stored by a provider can also be cleared through your browser settings.
How long your choice is remembered
Your choices are stored in a cookie named tcc-consent, which is scoped to this site, marked Secure and set with SameSite=Lax. It records the categories you allowed and the policy version you were shown. If we materially change this policy, we will ask you again.
Questions
If you have a question about how we use cookies or wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us.