1. About This Cookie Notice
This Cookie Notice explains how Ashcombe Private Office uses cookies and similar technologies on its website. It describes what these technologies are, the categories that may be used, why they are used, and the choices available to you. This notice should be read together with our privacy notice, which explains how we process personal data more generally.
Ashcombe Private Office is responsible for the website and for determining how information collected through cookies is used. Our contact details are: 18 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QW, United Kingdom and office@ashcombeprivate.co.uk. This notice is effective from 2026-05-22.
Cookies may be used whenever you visit or interact with the website, including when you browse pages, submit information through a contact feature, or adjust your privacy preferences. The exact cookies in use may change as the website, its content, and the services supporting it change.
Where a cookie or similar technology is not strictly necessary for the website to operate, we will request your consent before placing it on your device where required by applicable UK law. You can refuse or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time through the available cookie settings or by changing your browser settings.
2. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone, tablet, or other internet-connected device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise a device, remember information about a visit, maintain a session, or understand how visitors use the site. Some cookies last only until you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
We may also use related technologies, such as pixels, tags, local storage, software development kits, or similar identifiers. These technologies can perform functions comparable to cookies, including remembering preferences, measuring website activity, and helping to provide or assess communications. In this notice, we use the term “cookies” to include cookies and similar technologies unless we say otherwise.
Cookies do not generally identify you by name on their own. However, information associated with a cookie may become personal data where it is linked with other information, such as an IP address, device information, online identifiers, or information you submit to us. We handle such information in accordance with applicable data protection law.
3. Categories of Cookies We May Use
The website may use the following categories of cookies. The precise names, providers, purposes, and lifetimes of individual cookies may vary.
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are required for core website functions, security, load balancing, privacy controls, or the delivery of a service you have requested. Without them, parts of the website may not work correctly. These cookies generally do not require consent because they are necessary for the website or a requested service.
- Preference or functionality cookies: These cookies remember choices such as language, region, display settings, or cookie preferences. They can make the website easier to use and prevent you from having to repeat choices during a visit. We will use these cookies only where permitted and, where required, after you have consented.
- Analytics or performance cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, for example which pages are viewed, how visitors navigate between pages, whether pages load correctly, and whether errors occur. The information is generally used in aggregated or statistical form to improve the website. These cookies are not placed where consent is required unless you have given consent.
- Marketing or advertising cookies: These cookies may be used to measure or support marketing activity, limit how often an advertisement is shown, understand whether a campaign has been effective, or provide advertising that is more relevant to your interests. Ashcombe Private Office will use this category only if it is enabled on the website and only where the required consent has been obtained.
- Embedded content and third-party cookies: A page may include content or functionality supplied by another organisation. That provider may place its own cookies or similar technologies when the content is displayed or used. Such providers may process information under their own terms and privacy notices. We do not control the cookies set directly by third parties.
4. Why We Use Cookies
We use strictly necessary cookies to operate and protect the website, maintain technical stability, remember your privacy choices, and provide functions that you have actively requested. These technologies support the basic delivery of pages and help us identify technical problems.
Where enabled, preference cookies help the website remember settings and choices. Analytics cookies may provide information about traffic, page performance, and general patterns of use. We may use that information to improve content, accessibility, navigation, security, and the overall operation of the website.
Where marketing technologies are enabled, they may help us evaluate communications and understand visits that result from marketing activity. We will not use non-essential cookies for these purposes unless we have a lawful basis to do so and, where required by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, have obtained your prior consent.
Cookies do not give us access to files stored on your device, and they do not normally allow us to read unrelated information on that device. We use information obtained through cookies only for the purposes described in this notice, our privacy notice, or the information provided when consent is requested.
5. Consent and Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit the website, a cookie banner, preference tool, or similar control may allow you to accept or reject categories of non-essential cookies. You can choose to accept all available cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or manage categories individually, depending on the options provided by the website.
Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be switched off through the cookie preference tool because disabling them may prevent the website from operating or from remembering your privacy decision. All other categories should remain disabled unless and until you choose to enable them, where consent is required.
You can withdraw consent at any time by reopening the cookie settings tool and changing your preferences. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal. If the website does not provide a persistent settings link, you may contact us using office@ashcombeprivate.co.uk for assistance with your preferences.
If you use different browsers or devices, you may need to set your preferences separately on each one. Deleting cookies may also remove the record of your choice, meaning that the cookie notice may appear again and you may be asked to make a new selection.
6. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow you to control or delete cookies through their settings. You can usually block all cookies, block third-party cookies, delete cookies when you close the browser, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Browser help pages normally explain how to access these controls.
Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect the availability, security, or functionality of the website. Blocking analytics, preference, or marketing cookies should have a more limited effect, although some features that depend on remembering your choices may not work as intended.
Browser-based controls do not always provide the same level of category-by-category choice as the website’s consent tool. They may also remove cookies without withdrawing consent records in the same way. For this reason, we recommend using the website’s cookie preference controls where available and using browser settings as an additional measure.
7. Third-Party Providers and International Transfers
Some cookies or similar technologies may be provided by suppliers that support website hosting, security, analytics, communications, embedded content, or other technical services. These providers may process information on our behalf or may act independently for their own purposes. We seek to use providers appropriately and require processors to protect personal data where applicable.
Third-party providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where personal data is transferred internationally, Ashcombe Private Office will take steps required by applicable UK data protection law, which may include using an adequacy regulation, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the UK Addendum to standard contractual clauses, or another lawful transfer mechanism.
Third-party cookie practices may change independently of this notice. We encourage you to review the relevant provider’s information when the cookie preference tool identifies a provider or when a third-party service is presented on the website. A provider’s own notice may explain how it uses identifiers, combines information, or responds to browser privacy signals.
8. Personal Data, Lawful Bases, and Retention
Where cookie information constitutes personal data, our lawful basis depends on the activity. For strictly necessary cookies, processing is generally based on our legitimate interests in operating, securing, and maintaining the website, or on the need to provide a service you have requested. For non-essential cookies where consent is required, our lawful basis is your consent.
You can withdraw consent at any time. Consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous, and refusing non-essential cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main website unless the relevant function genuinely depends on the technology concerned.
We retain cookie information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, subject to the lifetime of the relevant cookie, our retention procedures, and legal or regulatory requirements. Session cookies expire when the browsing session ends, while persistent cookies may remain for a stated period. The cookie settings tool may retain evidence of your choices for a reasonable period so that we do not ask you repeatedly.
Analytics or other records derived from cookie information may be retained for longer than the original cookie where necessary for reporting, security, audit, legal, or operational purposes. We apply appropriate safeguards and seek to limit retention to what is necessary.
9. Your UK Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights in relation to personal data processed through cookies. These may include the right to request access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate information, erasure, restriction of processing, and data portability. You may also have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests and the right not to be subject to certain solely automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects.
Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out before withdrawal. Some rights are subject to conditions and exemptions, and we may need information from you to verify your identity before responding.
To exercise a right or ask a question about cookies, contact us at office@ashcombeprivate.co.uk or write to 18 King Street, London, SW1Y 6QW, United Kingdom. We aim to respond within the period required by applicable law. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority, at the Information Commissioner’s Office website or through its published contact details. We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to address your concern first.
10. Updates to This Notice
We may update this Cookie Notice when the website changes, when the cookies or providers we use change, or when legal, regulatory, or technical developments require an update. The current version will be made available on the website and will show its effective date as 2026-05-22 or a later revised date.
Where an update materially affects how we use non-essential cookies or how you can exercise your choices, we may display a new notice or request consent again where required. We recommend checking this page periodically so that you remain informed about our use of cookies.
For questions about this notice, the cookies used on the website, or your preferences, please contact Ashcombe Private Office at office@ashcombeprivate.co.uk.