Cookie Policy

Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies and other similar storage and access technologies (SATs) on our website. This policy should be read together with our Website Privacy Policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

 

1. Who we are

This website is operated by City Building (Glasgow) LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in Scotland (registered number SO300990) having its registered office at 350 Darnick Street, Glasgow, G21 4BA. We are a “data controller” which gathers and uses certain information about you.

City Building provides a range of repairs and maintenance, manufacturing, construction and refurbishment activities for Glasgow City Council and Wheatley Housing Group’s citizens and customers as well as other public, private and third sector organisations.

For more information see https://www.citybuildingglasgow.co.uk/about/

 

2. Our website

This cookie policy only relates to your use of our website, https://www.citybuildingglasgow.co.uk/.

Throughout our website, we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

 

3. Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, phone, computer or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us understand how many people access it, how it is used, and to help us improve the user experience of our website. We use Google Analytics to do this, which helps us collect information to analyse which parts of the site are most useful to our visitors. We also use this kind of cookie to track errors and missing files. This information is used only for web analytics and no personal details are stored.

The information we collect includes:

  • The name of your internet service provider and the internet protocol (IP) address you are using.
  • The date and time you visit our website, and the pages you look at.
  • The internet address of any websites which have linked you directly to our site.

For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s website, or https://allaboutcookies.org/.

 

4. Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. an enquiry through our contact form or when applying for job vacancies on our vacancies page).

You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or other similar technologies or manage any other such preferences by clicking on the cookie icon on the bottom left-hand side of the opening page and clicking on “change to consent” where you can untick the options. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.

 

5. Our use of cookies

 

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:

Name Purpose Duration Provider Essential / Consent Required Data Shared With
civicAllowCookies Records your cookie consent choice 1 year City Building Essential (no consent) Only City Building
Session ID Maintains user session state while browsing Session City Building Essential (no consent) Only City Building
__cf_bm Cloudflare bot management to protect site from automated abuse 30 minutes Cloudflare Essential (no consent) Cloudflare
_ga Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users 2 years Google Consent required Google
__stid ShareThis cookie to track social sharing activity 2 years ShareThis Consent required ShareThis

 

6. Third party access to the cookies

The cookies we use are only accessed by us and the third parties named in the table (Google, Cloudflare, ShareThis). These cookies will not be accessed by any other third party.

 

7. How to turn off all cookies and the consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or https://allaboutcookies.org/.

 

8. How to contact us

Please contact us or our Data Protection Officer, if you have any questions about this cookie policy or the information we hold about you.

You can contact us at the address detailed above or by email at marketing@citybuildingglasgow.co.uk or by telephone on 0141 287 2200.

You can contact our Data Protection Officer by email at kenny.meechan@ced.glasgow.gov.uk or by telephone on 0141 287 4517.

 

9. Do you need extra help?

Please also use our Accessibility Adjustments button on the bottom right-hand side of the opening screen. However, if you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille), please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).

 

10. Changes to this policy

This policy was published on 20th October 2025.

We may change this policy from time to time. When we do, we will inform you via adding the date of when it was updated.