Cookie Policy

Last updated: July 2025

This Cookie Policy explains how GMS Business Accountants Ltd ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website at https://gms-accountants.co.uk (the "Service"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Service to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Service. Third parties serve cookies through our Service for analytics and other purposes.

Types of cookies we use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. These cookies cannot be switched off in our systems.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service and deliver advertisements on and through the Service. These may include:

Google Analytics: Used to understand how visitors interact with our website
Social Media Platforms: If you share our content on social media
Website Development Partners: Cookies from SDC Digital & 3001Web for website functionality

How can you control cookies?

Cookie Preferences

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the small cookie settings icon located at the bottom left of your screen. This will allow you to:

Accept or reject different categories of cookies
View detailed information about each cookie type
Update your preferences whenever you wish

Browser Settings

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, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Your rights under GDPR

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights regarding cookies and personal data:

Right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data
Right of access: You have the right to request access to your personal data
Right to rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified
Right to erasure: You have the right to have your personal data erased
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data
Right to data portability: You have the right to data portability
Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data
Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw consent at any time

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us:

Company: GMS Business Accountants Ltd
Registration Number: 12475920
Website: https://gms-accountants.co.uk
Email: Via our contact form on the website

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.