Matthew Cox respects the privacy of anyone who uses the Matthew Cox website.

Matthew Cox gathers important information from our visitors and customers. We publish this Privacy policy to communicate how we gather and use information about you, how we protect it, and how you can participate in its protection.

Matthew Cox provides its service to you subject to this Privacy policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy policy and we will continue to review it regularly.

Collected information and how we use it

We receive and store information through users submitting HTML forms (such as on our contact page), and we use it only for the purpose contact was made, normally to contact and initiate a discussion about our services. We do not and will not use this information for any other purpose.

We will often include a 'Join mailing list' option on the website, and users on our mailing list will receive occasional newsletters with useful information relevant to our industry and services. Users may choose to unsubscribe at any time. We will not share our mailing list with any third parties.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. It provides us with anonymous but useful information such as the number of visitors to the website, the browsers used, the pages viewed and for what length of time. We make no attempts to use this data in any way to identify specific users or to discover any personally identifiable information about our users.

We will always be transparent and clear about any data we receive from the website.

Cookies

Cookies are small files web browsers place on a computer's hard drive. They are often used to help us authenticate users as well as to help websites to work more efficiently, and in some cases they are essential and fundamental to the operation of a website - essential scenarios include ecommerce, and while not strictly essential (per se) often website HTML forms will require the use of cookies to work properly.

The website stores Google Analytics cookies, which are essential for Google Analytics to work and as mentioned above Google Analytics provides us with extremely valuable information about the use of our website.

The data is stored anonymously and includes no sensitive data - the most 'sensitive' data that could be extracted may well be the average number of daily hits to our homepage and how that changes over time - this data poses no risk or threat to the users of the website but is very helpful for us. We have listed below some further information about the Google Analytics cookies:

Cookie names: __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz. Find out more about Google's privacy policy and safeguards.

We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. Vimeo stores cookies to help with collecting analytics about the use of its videos as well as to ensure effective performance and storing settings such as volume level. Cookie names: __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz on URL .player.vimeo.com. __qca, __utma, __utmv, __utmz, embed_preferences, hid_preference, home_active_tab, pl_volume, stats_end_date, stats_start_date, uid, v6f, vimeo on URL .vimeo.com. Find out more about Vimeo's privacy policy.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.