Cookies Notice

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and to target the content displayed to the user’s interests.

You can find more information about cookies at All About Cookies and Your Choices Online.

There are two broad types of cookies:

1.  First party cookies: these are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site. Basically, these are our cookies.

2. Third party cookies: these are installed by parties other than the owner of the website a user visits. We use third party cookies for functionality, performance/analytics.

In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until the expiry date, specified in the cookie itself, is reached. We use both session and persistent cookies.

Wherever it is practical to do so, we use anonymous cookies. These are cookies that allow us to understand your use of our website but without capturing any information that could be used to identify you as an individual – such as an ‘Internet Protocol (IP) Address’.

Where a cookie does capture information, such as IP address, that can identify you; and where the cookie is not essential for you to be able to use our website, we ask for your consent before placing the cookie on your device.

Some cookies are essential for the effective functioning of the website. We are unable to offer you the option to opt-out of these cookies due to this essential nature.

Essential Website Cookies: these cookies are essential to provide you with the website and its services. Without these cookies, services such as secure login accounts would not be possible.

Functionality Cookies: these cookies remember choices made by or attributes of the user and enhance the features and content you experience during your visit to our website, e.g. language, appeals visited or user’s location. This cookie is also used to remember a user’s preferences for a font size or customisable parts of a web page.

Analytics and Performance Cookies: we use performance/analytics cookies to analyse how the website is accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the website. These cookies do not collect information that identifies the user.

Cookie Name Provider Category Purpose Retention
_ga osmthome.com Statistics Tracks website usage 400 days
_ga_# osmthome.com Statistics Distinguishes sessions 1 year
_gid osmthome.com Marketing Distinguishes users 1 day
_gat osmthome.com Statistics Limits request rate 1 minute
_gcl_au osmthome.com Marketing Measures ad conversions 90 days
_gcl_ls Google Tag Manager Marketing Stores ad click info 90 days
lastExternalReferrer connect.facebook.net Marketing Records the last external site that referred you to our website, used for advertising attribution and campaign measurement. Session
lastExternalReferrerTime connect.facebook.net Marketing Records the last external site that referred you to our website, used for advertising attribution and campaign measurement. Session
TESTCOOKIESENABLED youtube.com Marketing Tests whether the browser supports cookies to enable ad delivery and embedded video functionality. Session
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY youtube.com Marketing Stores the identifier of the last video or search result entry to manage playback state, personalization, and targeted recommendations. Until Cleared
_fbp osmthome.com Marketing Delivers targeted ads 90 days
IDE DoubleClick.net Marketing Measures ad performance 1 year
test_cookie DoubleClick.net Necessary Tests browser cookie support 15 minutes
CookieConsent osmthome.com Necessary Stores user’s cookie preferences 1 year
wpEmojiSettingsSupports osmthome.com Necessary Supports emoji rendering Session
bcookie LinkedIn Necessary Browser ID for LinkedIn integrations 2 years
li_gc LinkedIn Necessary Stores consent for LinkedIn cookies 6 months
lidc LinkedIn Preferences Routing for LinkedIn services 1 day
YSC youtube.com Marketing Tracks video views Session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com Marketing Estimates bandwidth for video playback 6 months
__Secure-YNID youtube.com Marketing Stores YouTube preferences 1 year
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN youtube.com Marketing Feature rollout tracking Persistent
__cf_bm Vimeo Necessary Bot management and security 30 minutes
cf.turnstile.u Cloudflare Necessary Security challenge management Session
kindly-chat-browser-id Kindly Chat Functional Identifies browser for chat widget Session

We may collect information from cookies when you visit our website, depending on how you use it. This helps us improve the site and provide a better user experience. Information collected may include:

  • Pages visited and time spent on site
  • Whether you are a new or returning visitor
  • Device type, browser, and location (city/country)
  • How you arrived at the site (e.g., search engine, referral link)
  • Interaction with forms and preferences
  • Video playback quality and errors encountered

We will occasionally update this Cookie Notice to reflect changes in our practices and services. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Cookie Notice or any of our other policies. This version was last updated on 05/04/2026.
Cookies that have been set in the past
If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.

The ‘Help’ menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. Below is some helpful guidance about how to make these changes.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block OSM Thome’s website cookies, you can perform the following:
1. On your browser tools menu, select ‘Internet Options’
2. Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and then on the ‘Sites’ button
3. Type into the ‘Address of website’ field: www.osmthome.com
4. Click on the ‘Block’ button
5. Click on the OK button

Find out more information about blocking or deleting cookies using Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Other browsers:
Firefox cookie management
Chrome cookie management
Safari cookie management (On Mac: Open Safari → choose Safari > Settings (or Preferences) → click Privacy)

Find out more detailed information on disabling cookies on the All About Cookies website.

If you have any questions or comments about this cookie notice, or privacy matters generally, please contact our GDPR team via email, telephone, or mail:

GDPR Team
Email: dpo@osmthome.com