We are Merrie Stud Riding School and this website is operated by WOW Design Solutions Limited trading as ‘EC Pro’. They are an award winning web development, design and digital agency based in the heart of Bedfordshire.
This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, . Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make horse-riding lessons, sessions, Livery and ancillary services available to you. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually. For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
We will ask for your permission (Consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested to enable you to book and pay for a session, lesson or service. You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies by not using this service.
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
The cookies we use |
Name |
Purpose |
Whether cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested and whether we will seek your consent before we place the cookie |
Universal Analytics, Google |
_ga, |
This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our site, and how we can enhance their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (i.e. how long they stayed on the site, the average number of pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had. |
Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie) |
Social media sharing |
_atuvc |
Used by a plugin called ‘add this’ which allows users to share pages of content on social media platforms. This cookie will remain for 2 years. |
Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie) |
Card details |
_stripe_mid |
Used by Stripe.com in order to identify users, to avoid storing any card details on our servers. This cookie remains for 8 months. |
Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie) |
Log ins |
ec_pro_session |
An encrypted session cookie used by our system to remember temporary state and preferences, including who the logged in user is. This cookie remains for only 2 hours. |
Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie) |
Calendar |
timetable_view_datetime |
Used in our admin panel to remember preferences when viewing calendars. This cookie remains for a maximum of 5 years. |
Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie) |
Hacking Avoidance |
XSRF-Token |
Encrypted token that we use to avoid a malicious web hacking technique called cross site scripting. This cookie remains for 2 hours only. |
Yes, essential (we will therefore not request your consent before placing this cookie) |
The cookies we use will only be accessed by us and those third parties named in the table above for the purposes referred to in this cookie policy. Those cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you. If you wish to contact us please send an email to merriestudrs@gmail.com, or call 07477 001632.
If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).
This policy was published on 05/03/2020 and last updated on 05/03/2020. We may change this policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via email.
