Cookie Policy

Our goal at Beyond Beige is to give you the smoothest and simplest experience while you browse
our website. To continually enhance your experience, we use cookies that store your preferences
and give us data about what pages you visited, how much time you spent on our site etc. This helps
us to improve your experience on our website. The cookies used do not store any information that
is personal in nature and it is only analysed in and aggregated manner.

Please find below some more information about cookies, their use on our website, and some tips on
cookies control for yourself.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server
and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Every cookie is
unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique
identifier and site name and some digits and numbers.

Cookies are small pieces of text that are stored by your browser on your computer. Each cookie has
a name and is associated with a particular web site. When your browser sends a request to a site
(for example to download a page, image, or video), the computer that responds (known as the
server) may tell your browser to set one or more cookies. When your browser makes further
requests to the same site it sends cookies back to the server. This allows the server to remember
you as you browse that site, and provide features such as shopping baskets or password-protected
areas.

Types of cookie

First party Cookies
First party cookies are set when you interact with our site. Your browser will only send these
cookie requests to our site.

Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our site to work correctly. You can block these cookies through
your browser settings, but if you choose to do so some features may no longer work.

Google analytics cookies
These cookies are used by Google Analytics to track visitor interaction with our site in order to
produce statistical reports for us. These cookies are created when you first view our site.
We use Google Analytics to track visitor interaction with our site in order to produce statistical
reports.

Google collects details of the pages you view and the time you viewed them, the features of
your browser, and your IP address. We have enabled IP anonymisation so that Google will not store
your complete IP address. For more information on how Google handles the data it collects, see
Google’s privacy policy.

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking on our site, see the Google Analytics section of our cookie
policy. To opt out of Google Analytics tracking on all sites, use the Google Analytics Opt-out
Browser Add-on.

Third party cookies
Third-party cookies are created by functionality and content on our site that are supplied by other
providers. Your browser will send these cookies in requests to the provider of the functionality or
content, which may allow the provider to track you across multiple sites.

Other third-party cookies

These cookies are set by content on our site that is supplied by other providers. You can block these
cookies through your browser settings, but if you choose to do so some features will no longer
work.

YouTube video player
The YouTube video player creates cookies when the video starts playing. For more information, see
the YouTube video player section of our privacy policy.

Lawful basis for processing

Pursuance of our legitimate interests, allowing us to analyse how visitors interaction with our site in
order to improve our site and our services

Tips on Cookie Control

These tips vary slightly between browser and type of computer, if you’re not sure of the type and
version of your web browser you use to enable the internet.

Identify your browser

For Macs with the browser window open, click-on the Apple menu and select the “About” option.
Control cookies

In Google Chrome

Click on “Tools” at the top of your browser window and select Options
Click the “Under the hood” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and select the “Content
settings’ button
Now select ‘Allow local data to be set’

Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE)

Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser and select ‘Internet options’, then click on the
‘Privacy’ tab
Ensure that your ‘Privacy Level’ is set to Medium or below, which will enable cookies in
your browser; settings above Medium, will disable cookies.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select Options
Then select the ‘Privacy’ icon
Click on Cookies, and then select ‘allow sites to set cookies’

Safari

Click on ‘Security’ Then ‘Accept cookies’
Select the ‘Only from site you navigate to’

Opera

Click on ‘Menu’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Settings’
Then select ‘Preferences’, select the ‘Advanced’ tab
Then select ‘Accept cookies’ option

All other browsers

Please consult your documentation or online help files.

Policy changes

The above policy may change at any time. We will endeavour to notify you of any major changes,
but you may wish to check it each time you visit our website.

Last update 20 June 2019

BEYOND BEIGE – IT support services for small business

Simon Goodman

IT Consultant

Simon Goodman has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years. He worked at Rolls Royce as a production engineer, making critical parts for jet engines. “There was a lot of red tape,” said Simon. He rescued several projects because of his deep understanding of the “rules”. Simon has got a real skill in taking things that are complex and turning them into simple language and processes that business people understand.