Cookies Policy.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
We use cookies to help our site work properly and enhance your user experience.
Cookies are small files placed on your computer’s hard drive or stored in your browser memory when you visit the Strand website. They do not store any personal or confidential information.
We use essential and non-essential cookies to help us improve the site. You may choose to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and why we use them below.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files transferred by a website to your browser directory. They help the website identify your device and enable key functionality. Some aspects of the website will not function correctly without them.
To learn more about cookies, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org
Legal reasons for using cookies
Under the UK GDPR and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR):
- We may store strictly necessary cookies without your consent because they are required for the website to function correctly.
- We will always seek your consent before using any non-essential cookies, including analytics, marketing and functionality cookies.
- You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through our cookie banner or your browser settings.
How we use cookies
Strand uses cookies for the following purposes:
- To ensure the website operates safely and correctly
- To improve website performance and user experience
- To understand how visitors interact with our pages
- To support online marketing and measure advertising performance
- To enable form submissions, preferences and third-party integrations
Types of cookies we use
- Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies keep the site secure and make it sure it works properly. They are automatically placed when you visit our site. You cannot turn them off in our cookie setting, but you can block or remove them in your browser. If you do, some parts of the site may not function correctly.
Examples include:
- Session cookies enabling core site functionality
- Security and access management cookies
- Cookie consent management tools
- Functionality cookies
These cookies enable enhanced functionality and allow the website to remember your preferences, such as language, region or form settings.
Examples include:
- Preference cookies storing display or accessibility settings
- Cookies set by embedded tools (e.g. live chat or video embeds)
These cookies are non-essential and require your consent before being set.
3. Performance cookies
Performance cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting information anonymously.
We use the following analytics tools:
- Google Analytics 4 (GA4) – Tracks website usage, traffic sources, device information and pages visited. Data is anonymised and used to improve performance and content through Google Tag Manager
- Google Tag Manager – Loads other scripts and tracking tags. Does not collect personal data itself but may load third-party cookies. These cookies only run if you accept non-essential cookies.
4. Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites, helping us deliver advertising that is relevant and engaging.
Strand uses the following marketing tools:
- Facebook (Meta) Pixel – Tracks website actions for advertising, remarketing, and performance measurement. Helps create audience groups for Meta advertising.
- LinkedIn Insight Tag – Provides analytics and campaign measurement for LinkedIn ads. Helps track conversions and page interactions
- Google Ads Tag – Tracks ad performance and supports remarketing
- Mailchimp Marketing – When you submit a form powered by Mailchimp. Mailchimp will record the form submission and preferences, collect device or browser information for security and analytics, track interactions such as email opens or link clicks (via tracking pixels). Mailchimp’s cookie information: https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/
5. Functionality cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
Managing or withdrawing your consent
You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by:
- Using our on-site cookie banner to accept or refuse categories of cookies
- Adjusting your browser settings to block or delete cookies
- Using third-party opt-out tools, such as:
Please note that disabling certain cookies may impact website performance or content display.
Third-party cookies
Some cookies on our website are set by third-party services such as analytics providers, advertising platforms or embedded content. We do not control these cookies directly.
For details about how third parties use cookies, please review their respective cookie or privacy policies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or your data rights, please contact us:
Email: hello@strand.agency
Address: Office 2 at The Stables, Cokenach Estate, Barkway, Hertfordshire, SG8 8DL