Cookie Policy
UPDATED 11 SEPTEMBER 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Murray Hay LLP (“Murray Hay”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, murrayhay.co.uk (the “Website”). It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we use personal data.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies set by us are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than us are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features to be provided on or through our Website, such as analytics. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognise your device both when it visits our Website and when it visits other websites.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies for a limited number of purposes, set out in the table below.
| Category | How we use it |
|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Essential to make the Website work — e.g. remembering your cookie preferences and keeping the site secure. Cannot be switched off. |
| Analytics / performance | Google Analytics 4, used to understand how visitors use murrayhay.co.uk so we can improve it. Only set once you accept via our cookie banner. |
| Functional | Loading web fonts (Adobe Fonts / Typekit) so pages display with our brand typography. |
| Marketing / advertising | We do not currently use marketing or advertising cookies on this website. |
3. Cookies used on this Website
The table below lists the specific cookies we have identified in use on murrayhay.co.uk at the date of this policy. Third-party providers may update their own cookies from time to time, so this list may not always be fully exhaustive — we review it periodically.
| Cookie name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated ID as a client identifier. Used to work out how many people visit the site and how they use it. | 13 months | Analytics |
| _ga_<container-id> (e.g. _ga_G-5HBH3FLR0X) |
Google Analytics | Used by Google Analytics 4 to persist session state information, such as session ID and number of sessions. | 13 months | Analytics |
| silktideCookieChoice_* | Silktide (cookie consent tool) | Remembers the choices you make in our cookie banner (e.g. which categories you accept or reject) so we don’t ask you again on every visit. | 12 months | Strictly necessary |
| PHPSESSID | murrayhay.co.uk | Standard WordPress/PHP session identifier used to maintain your session while you browse the site. | Session (deleted on browser close) | Strictly necessary |
Google Analytics 4: we use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors engage with our Website (for example, which pages are viewed and how visitors arrived at the site). Google acts as an independent controller of this data. You can find out more about how Google uses data collected through Analytics at google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and you can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Adobe Fonts (Typekit): our Website uses web fonts served by Adobe Fonts to display text consistently in our brand style. Loading these fonts involves a request to Adobe’s servers, which may log standard technical information such as your IP address. Further information is available in Adobe’s privacy policy.
Cookie consent management: we use a cookie consent banner (provided by Silktide) to record and remember your cookie preferences. This tool itself sets a strictly necessary cookie so that your choice is remembered on future visits.
4. Managing your cookie preferences
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies (other than strictly necessary ones).
- Cookie banner: when you first visit our Website, you will be shown a cookie banner where you can accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your cookies and refreshing the page, or via the cookie settings link in our website footer, where available.
- Browser controls: most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these settings in the “Options”, “Preferences” or “Settings” menu of your browser. The following links explain how to manage cookies in common browsers:
- Google Chrome — support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Mozilla Firefox — support.mozilla.org/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection
- Safari — support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies
- Microsoft Edge — support.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge
Please note that if you choose to block or delete cookies, some parts of our Website may not function as intended.
For more general information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies we use, or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this page regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when this policy was last revised.
6. Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us:
Murray Hay LLP
Unit 6, 3 Eastfields Avenue, Riverside Quarter, London, SW18 1GN
Email: info@murrayhay.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8704 4541
Murray Hay LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (registered number OC436998) and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number 8000855).