Last reviewed: 15 July 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Gather Technology Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies when
you visit our website.
Cookies help our website operate correctly, remember your preferences and, where you have given
your consent, help us understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve it.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Notice, which explains how we process
personal information collected through our website and services.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your web browser when you visit a website.
Some cookies are essential for a website to function correctly. Others help website owners
understand how their website is used or improve the services they provide.
Cookies may be:
- Session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
How we use cookies
Gather Technology Ltd uses cookies for two purposes:
- To remember your cookie preferences.
- To understand how visitors use our website and identify opportunities to improve its
performance, content and usability.
We do not use advertising or behavioural targeting cookies.
This Cookie Policy describes the cookies currently used by the Gather Technology website. We
periodically review the website to ensure this policy accurately reflects its current operation.
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are required to provide functionality requested by the visitor or to
remember the visitor's cookie choices. They do not require consent and cannot be disabled through
our cookie preference controls.
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Purpose: Stores your cookie consent choices so that the website remembers whether you accepted
or declined analytics cookies.
Retention: Up to 12 months.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website and identify improvements. We
do not set these cookies unless you have given your consent.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics helps us understand website traffic, how visitors navigate the site and how the
website performs. We use this information to improve our content, services and website experience.
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Purpose: Distinguishes visitors so that website usage can be measured.
Retention: Up to 2 years.
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Purpose: Maintains session information for Gather's Google Analytics 4 property.
Retention: Up to 2 years.
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity helps us understand how visitors interact with our website through usage analytics,
heatmaps and session recordings. We use this information to identify usability improvements and
improve the visitor experience.
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Purpose: Stores a pseudonymous Clarity visitor identifier and preferences so that visits to the
website can be associated with the same browser.
Retention: Up to 12 months.
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Purpose: Links page views made during a visit into a single Clarity session.
Retention: Up to 1 day.
Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit our website, you can accept or decline analytics cookies. Your choice is
remembered using the strictly necessary consent preference cookie.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie preferences control provided
on the website.
If you decline analytics cookies, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity cookies are not stored on
your device.
Third-party analytics services
Our website uses the following third-party analytics services:
- Google Analytics.
- Microsoft Clarity.
These providers process information collected through analytics technologies in accordance with
their own privacy information and contractual arrangements with Gather Technology Ltd.
Browser controls
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through their settings. Blocking all
cookies may affect some website functionality, including the ability to remember your cookie
choices.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We review this Cookie Policy regularly and update it whenever our use of cookies changes or where
required by changes to our website, services or legal requirements.
Where a change could materially affect visitors, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to their
attention. The date at the top of this policy shows when it was last reviewed.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please email us
at help@gather.tech or by post to:
Gather Technology ltd
Abbey Manor Business Centre,
Yeovil,
Somerset
BA20 2EN
United Kingdom
