Cookie policy
What cookies are, which ones this website sets, and how to turn them off. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal data more broadly.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that a website asks your browser to store on your device. On your next visit the site can read it back, which lets it recognise that the same browser has been here before.
Cookies can do useful, ordinary things — keeping you signed in, remembering a preference — and they can also be used to build a picture of how people move around a website. Some are set by the website you are visiting, which are called first-party cookies. Others are set by a different company whose content is embedded in the page, which are called third-party cookies.
Similar technologies exist that are not strictly cookies. This website uses one of them: your browser’s session storage briefly holds a note of whether it can display emoji, which WordPress uses to decide whether to load an extra script. It is cleared the moment you close the tab and it identifies nobody.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for one purpose: to understand how this website is used, so that we can make it better. Cookie policies usually group cookies into four kinds, and it is worth being clear about which of them apply here:
- Strictly necessary — needed for the website to function. This website sets none for ordinary visitors.
- Analytics and performance — count visitors and show which pages are read. These are the only cookies this website sets, and there are three of them.
- Functionality — remember choices such as a language or a region. This website sets none.
- Targeting and advertising — used to build advertising profiles. We do not advertise on this website and we set none.
The three analytics cookies belong to Google Analytics. Google Analytics also sends requests to Google’s advertising domains, which is part of how the product works; those requests are sent with personalised advertising switched off. We do not sell the information these cookies collect, and we do not use it to target advertising at you.
The cookies this website sets
All three are analytics cookies, and all three are first-party — set on the griffinamersham.co.uk domain by Google Analytics. We checked this list in a browser on 18 August 2026 and found no other cookies at all.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
_ga | Assigns a randomly generated number to your browser so that several visits can be counted as one returning visitor rather than several new ones. It contains no name, email address or other detail that identifies you. | Up to 400 days |
_ga_2EEZWWR2Z0 | Holds the state of your current visit — when it started, how many pages you have seen. Google Analytics sets one cookie like this per analytics property, named after that property’s own ID. | Up to 400 days |
_ga_E599CJQ8HM | The same session information, recorded for a second analytics property. | Up to 400 days |
Technical detail, for those who want it: none of the three is marked HttpOnly, so scripts running on this site can read them, and all three are set with SameSite=Lax, so your browser will not send them along with requests started by other websites.
If you sign in to the website as a member of our team, WordPress sets further cookies to keep you signed in and to remember editor preferences. Those are never set for visitors, and our server sets no cookies at all when an ordinary page is requested.
Third-party services
Two other companies’ services appear on this website. We do not control the cookies they set, and their own policies govern them.
| Service | What it does here |
|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Measures how this website is used — which pages are read, how visitors arrive, and roughly where in the world they are. It sets the three cookies listed above. Google publishes an explanation of how it uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com. |
| OpenTable | Our Book a Table page embeds OpenTable’s reservation widget so that you can reserve a table without leaving this website. When that widget loads it may set its own cookies in your browser, under OpenTable’s own privacy and cookie policies. If you complete a booking, OpenTable handles it and passes it to us. OpenTable’s widget appears on that one page and nowhere else on the site. |
How to control or block cookies
Every modern browser lets you block cookies, delete the ones already stored, or be warned before one is set. The makers’ own instructions are the most reliable:
If you would rather leave your browser settings alone and simply opt out of Google Analytics everywhere, Google publishes a browser add-on that does exactly that: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator, has plain-English guidance on cookies and your rights at ico.org.uk.
What happens if you block them
Nothing on this website stops working. You can read every page, see every menu and find us just as easily; we simply lose the ability to count the visit, which makes our figures a little less complete.
The one thing worth knowing is that the booking widget on our Book a Table page belongs to OpenTable, and blocking cookies altogether may stop it completing a reservation. If that happens, please call us on +44 1494 326820 and we will book your table for you.
Changes to this policy
We review this page whenever the website changes. If we add a service that sets cookies, we will list it here. This policy was last reviewed on 18 August 2026.
If you have a question about cookies or anything else on this site, email us at info@griffinamersham.co.uk or call +44 1494 326820.
Questions about how we use your data? Our Privacy Policy has the rest of the detail.