Cookies

We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. These will be set only if you accept.

For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our cookies page.

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. For example, the selections you make here about which cookies to accept are stored in a cookie.

You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Analytics Cookies

We'd like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify you.

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are ones planted by other websites while using this site. This may occur (for example) where a Twitter or Facebook feed is embedded with a page. Selecting to turn these off will hide such content.

Website Privacy and Cookie Policy

Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact Page, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third party data processors.
Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

External Links

This website contains links to external sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content of any external sites.
Whilst we take great care to ensure any confidential information remains protected we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

How we use cookies on this website

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

This website uses the following cookies:
Important Note: The information they collect does not identify you personally.

Session cookies

These are temporary cookie files, which are erased when you close your browser. The session cookie that we use is essential for some pages such the contact form to work correctly. It is set by the server and tells your browser how to interpret the page.

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies from other websites and last longer - This website uses the following Google Cookies:

Google Maps - Google uses these cookies for their Google Maps and local Search services.
For more information see Google Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics
Cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The information collected is anonymous and does not identify a visitor.
Select this link for an overview of privacy at Google

Cookie Control

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through your browser settings. See How to Control Cookies by www.aboutcookies.org or Clear your Browsers Cookies by www.wikihow.com

Please note that switching off or “opting out” of the use of cookies will mean that you may not be able to use certain features of websites.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Acknowledgements

Photographs and illustrations were provided by Sandwich Local History Society, Sandwich Town Council and Open Sandwich Design.