COOKIE POLICY

Last updated: May 2026

1. About this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Wells James Limited uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.

Our website is:

www.wellsjames.co.uk

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and use personal information.

Wells James Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 17111620.

Our registered office is:

167 to 169 Great Portland Street

5th Floor

London

England

W1W 5PF

You can contact us about this Cookie Policy by email at:

david@wellsjames.co.uk

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files or pieces of information that may be placed on your device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help a website work properly, remember basic settings, keep the website secure, support forms and improve the way pages are delivered to visitors.

Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags or other tools that store or access information on your device.

3. How we use cookies

Our website is built and hosted using Squarespace.

We only use cookies and similar technologies that are needed for the website to work properly.

These cookies may be used to:

securely serve the website to visitors

allow pages to load and display correctly

support website security

help forms and basic website functions operate properly

remember essential technical settings

prevent errors and maintain website performance

We do not currently use cookies for advertising, retargeting, behavioural tracking, third party analytics or marketing profiling.

4. Types of cookies we use

Cookie category Purpose Consent required?

Strictly necessary cookies These cookies are needed to run the website, keep it secure, serve pages correctly and support basic website functions such as forms. No. These cookies are necessary for the website to work.

5. Squarespace cookies

Because our website is built on Squarespace, Squarespace may use necessary and required cookies or similar technologies to securely provide and operate the website.

Squarespace may update the cookies and similar technologies used to provide its website platform from time to time. For this reason, we use a simple category based description in this Cookie Policy rather than listing every individual Squarespace cookie name.

6. No analytics or advertising cookies

We do not currently use:

Google Analytics

Google Tag Manager

Meta Pixel

LinkedIn Insight Tag

Hotjar

advertising cookies

retargeting cookies

behavioural tracking cookies

third party analytics cookies

marketing profiling cookies

If we add analytics, advertising, tracking or other non essential cookies in future, we will update this Cookie Policy and, where required, ask for your consent before those cookies are used.

7. Cookie consent

Because our website only uses cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to work, we do not currently ask visitors to opt in to cookies.

The ICO explains that consent is required for cookies that are not strictly necessary, but there is an exception for cookies that are essential to provide an online service requested by the visitor.

If this changes in future, we will review whether a cookie banner or consent tool is needed.

8. How to control cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

see what cookies are stored on your device

delete cookies

block all cookies

block cookies from particular websites

receive a warning before cookies are stored

The settings available to you will depend on the browser and device you use.

If you block or delete strictly necessary cookies, parts of the website may not work properly.

9. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

We may do this if:

the website changes

Squarespace changes the cookies or similar technologies used to provide the website

we add new website features

we add analytics, advertising or other non essential cookies

legal or regulatory requirements change

Any changes will be published on this page.

10. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:

Wells James Limited

Email: david@wellsjames.co.uk

Registered office: 167 to 169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, England, W1W 5PF