Cookie Notice
SERVICE PROVIDER
The Desktop Lawyer website (Website) is provided to you by Epoq Legal Ltd (ELL), registered in England and Wales, company number 3707955, whose registered office is at Unit 2, Imperial Place, Maxwell Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JN. ELL is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number 645296).
CONDITIONS
- This cookie notice forms part of the conditions (Conditions) that govern your use of this Website, and the services provided or offered to users of the Website. See also the Terms of Use. It is important that you read and understand the Conditions before you start to use the Website. You can print and keep a copy for your reference.
- Reference to our, us and we on the Website are references to ELL.
- By using the Website, you indicate that you accept the Conditions and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to the Conditions, please refrain from using the Website.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
- When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device. These are called 'cookies'.
- These cookies are used to improve services for you through:
- Letting you navigate between pages efficiently
- Enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information during one task
- Recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don't need to enter it for every web page requested
- Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- You can learn more about cookies from AllAboutCookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.eu
COOKIE CATEGORIES
- Cookies used on websites can be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies
- These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance cookies
- These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
- Functionality cookies
- These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as a live chat session. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
COOKIES ON THE WEBSITE
- The list below shows the cookies that we use on the Website. If you have any queries about these, or would like more information, please Contact Us.
- Strictly necessary cookies:
- CFID, CFTOKEN, JSESSIONID cookies allows users to log in to the website and keep an active session
- MIGRATION cookie is necessary for the stable running of the website during code updates.
- Cloudflare uses the cookie _cfduid for security and threat detection purposes.
- cookieWarning cookie prevents the cookie notice blocking the screen once accepted.
- r5_alert_{key} localStorage value is necessary to be able to hide warnings in the document creator.
- {selectortype}_selector cookie is necessary for our document advisors and healthchecks
- When included, Google reCAPTCHA sets cookies (PREF, NID, HSID, APISID and SID) to enhance the security of this website and prevent automatic form submission by spambots. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address; screen size and resolution, date, language, browser plug-ins, and all Javascript objects; CSS information from the page the website visitor is on; how long the visitor has been on the website; cookies; and the inputting behaviour of the user as well as their mouse movements. The data collected during the analysis is encrypted and forwarded to Google.
- BrowserWarningDisplayed cookie prevents the warning for unsupported browsers from showing multiple times.
- maintenanceWarningShown cookie prevents our site maintenance warning from showing multiple times.
- filters localStorage item stores the options used to filter or sort your saved documents
- BASKETCOUNT cookie allows a number of items to be displayed in the basket.
- documentSession{documentreference} localStorage item alerts the user if the same document is open in multiple browser windows, to prevent data loss
- Functionality cookies
- rap5_assemblerIntro cookie prevents the document creator introduction modal from showing multiple times
CHANGING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES
- You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking here.
- Alternatively, users typically have the opportunity to set their browser to accept all or some cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that personalised services cannot be provided and the user may not be able to take full advantage of all of a website's features.
- Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
- To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
- To provide website visitors with more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on . The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (analytics.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
- If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.
Updated: March 16, 2021