Cookie policy
Updated 7 October 2026.
This policy explains cookies and similar storage on dundasbuildingsurveying.com, operated by Dundas Building Surveying Ltd. Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal information.
Your choice
No optional cookie is set when you first visit. “Reject all” keeps it that way. “Accept all” allows the optional services currently listed in Cookie settings. “Manage choices” lets you choose each purpose separately. Scrolling, browsing or closing the settings panel does not give consent.
You can reopen Cookie settings from the footer on any public page and reject optional services at any time. We remember your choice for 180 days using a first-party cookie shared between the main and www versions of this website. Clearing that cookie or changing which services we use means we will ask again.
Rejecting optional cookies does not prevent you from reading the website, contacting us or requesting a quote. If JavaScript is disabled, optional services remain off.
Necessary storage and security
These functions remember your privacy choice, protect forms from abuse and secure the staff portal. They are not used for advertising.
Cloudflare delivers and protects this website. Its Turnstile security check processes device and connection signals on forms to distinguish people from automated submissions. Cloudflare can also issue security cookies when it presents a challenge; the exact behaviour depends on the challenge and browser. No Cloudflare security cookie was observed in our fresh-browser checks on 14 September 2026. These checks are separate from optional analytics and videos.
Read Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum and Cloudflare’s cookie information.
Analytics
Before you choose, and if you decline, Google Analytics receives cookie-free measurements: which pages are viewed and actions such as sending a form or tapping a phone number, each tagged with a random number that is not stored, so visits cannot be linked together. Google uses the IP address to work out a rough location and then discards it. If you accept analytics cookies, a cookie is also set so repeat visits are recognised. We do not send form contents, names, email addresses or telephone numbers in our analytics events, and the page address we send is the page path alone, without any query string or fragment. Portal pages are excluded.
Google Analytics can set the first-party cookies _ga and _ga_* to distinguish browsers and maintain session information. We configure these cookies to expire after 180 days without extending their expiry on every visit. Rejecting Analytics removes these cookies from our domain and refreshes the page so the tag starts again without them.
After a successful Bristol or Newport quote or contact submission, a first-party cookie called dundas_conversion_receipt confirms that the thank-you visit came from a submitted enquiry. It contains a random reference, the form page and a five-minute expiry, with no form contents. The confirmation page consumes it once, so direct visits and reloads do not create another conversion. It is set only with the Advertising choice. Google may also use local storage named _gcl_ls for ad-click measurement; withdrawing the Advertising choice clears this storage from our domain.
Advertising
Advertising is a separate choice. If you accept advertising cookies, Google Ads can measure which adverts led to an enquiry, using Google ad-click identifiers from the page address together with visit and successful enquiry information. We never grant the signal that would let Google personalise adverts with this information. If you decline, Google Ads receives only cookie-free pings with ad-click identifiers removed, marked as non-personalised, so no advert can be attributed to your visit and no advertising cookie is set. We do not send form contents or customer details for enhanced conversions.
Google may use first-party cookies beginning _gcl_ to retain ad-click information. In our checks these cookies lasted between 90 and 180 days. Turning Advertising off clears these cookies from our domain, sends denied advertising consent signals and refreshes the page. YouTube has its own separate choice.
Our Google Consent Mode v2 defaults deny analytics storage, advertising storage, advertising user data and ad personalisation before the Google tag loads. Analytics storage is granted with the Analytics choice. Advertising storage and advertising user data are granted with the Advertising choice; ad personalisation stays denied whatever you choose. We use advanced consent handling: the Google tag loads with every signal denied and sends cookie-free pings to Google Analytics until you choose, and your choice is passed to Google through these signals.
External media (YouTube videos)
Our About page offers an embedded YouTube video. The player is blocked until you allow External media in Cookie settings. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player, but loading it still connects your browser to Google services and shares information such as your IP address, device and viewing activity. YouTube may store information on your device when you use the player.
YouTube controls its own third-party storage and retention. Details are available in Google’s cookie information and privacy policy. Turning videos off removes the embedded player. We cannot delete information already stored on another provider’s domain; use your browser’s site-data controls to remove it.
You can also follow the “Watch on YouTube instead” link. This opens YouTube as a separate website, where its own privacy choices apply.
Managing browser storage
Your browser can show, block or delete cookies and site data. Deleting the consent cookie resets your choice; deleting the portal cookie signs you out. Blocking essential storage may stop us remembering your choice or keeping you signed in. It does not authorise optional tracking.
Contact
Dundas Building Surveying Ltd, company number 13185617.
Studio 8, We Are Super, Sovereign Centre (Units 24–25), Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, BS23 1HL.
info@dundasbuildingsurveying.com.