Cookie Policy

Last updated: 25 June 2026

1. About this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how NJB Legal Limited, trading as NJB Legal, uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.

It explains:

• what cookies and similar technologies are;
• why we use them;
• which cookies may be placed on your device;
• how long those cookies may remain active;
• how we use Google Analytics and Google Search Console;
• how you can accept, reject or change your cookie choices; and
• how to contact us about our use of cookies and website data.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect, use, retain and protect personal data.

2. Who we are

This website is operated by:

NJB Legal Limited
Trading as NJB Legal
Company number: 16921195
Registered office: 7 Charter Court, Winsford, England, CW7 2FY
Email: Nicholas.ball@njb-legal.co.uk

For information collected directly through this website, NJB Legal Limited is the data controller.

NJB Legal Limited is a consultant practice of Nexa Law Limited. Where an enquiry progresses to a formal legal instruction, Nexa Law Limited’s privacy arrangements may apply to the processing of client-matter information.

This policy relates only to the NJB Legal website. External websites linked from this website will have their own privacy and cookie policies.

3. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile telephone or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies may allow a website to:

• operate securely and correctly;
• remember choices you have made;
• understand how visitors use the website;
• identify technical problems;
• improve content and navigation; and
• measure website performance.

Some cookies remain on your device only while your browser is open. These are known as session cookies.

Other cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them. These are known as persistent cookies.

Cookies may also be:

• first-party cookies, set directly by the website you are visiting; or
• third-party cookies, set by another organisation whose services are used by the website.

4. Similar technologies

The rules applying to cookies may also apply to other technologies that store information on, or access information from, your device.

These may include:

• browser storage;
• scripts and tags;
• tracking pixels;
• software development kits;
• device identifiers; and
• similar website measurement technologies.

References to cookies in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

5. How we use cookies

We use a limited number of cookies and related technologies to:

• operate and protect the website;
• remember your cookie choices;
• maintain website security and stability;
• understand website use where you have agreed to analytics cookies;
• identify pages or content that may need improvement;
• monitor website performance; and
• improve the website and its user experience.

We do not currently use cookies for personalised advertising, remarketing or cross-site behavioural profiling.

We will update this policy and our cookie controls before introducing any new category of non-essential cookie.

6. Cookie categories

Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to operate securely or to provide a function that you have requested.

They may be used to:

• remember your cookie preferences;
• maintain website security;
• prevent or identify fraud, misuse or technical faults;
• balance website traffic;
• allow an enquiry form to work correctly; or
• support another function specifically requested by you.

These cookies cannot normally be disabled through the cookie preference tool because the relevant website function may not work without them.

They are not used for advertising or behavioural profiling.

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.

They may collect information about:

• pages visited;
• time spent on the website;
• how a visitor reached the website;
• interactions with pages and website features;
• browser and device type;
• approximate location; and
• technical or navigation problems.

We use this information to produce website statistics and improve the website, its content and its user journeys.

Under the approach adopted by NJB Legal, analytics cookies will not be placed on your device unless you actively consent through the cookie banner or preference centre.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies may remember choices that affect how the website appears or operates for you.

The website does not currently use a separate category of non-essential functional cookies.

Should this change, the cookies will be listed in this policy and made subject to the appropriate controls.

Marketing and advertising cookies

Marketing cookies may be used to build a profile of a visitor’s interests, measure advertising or show personalised advertising across different websites.

We do not currently use marketing, remarketing or personalised advertising cookies on this website.

We will not introduce these cookies without updating this policy and obtaining consent where required.

7. Cookies used on this website

Strictly necessary cookies

Google Analytics cookies

The following cookies may be placed by Google Analytics 4, but only after you have consented to analytics cookies:

Cookies may expire sooner where:

• you withdraw consent;
• you delete your browser data;
• your browser restricts cookies; or
• we change the analytics configuration.

8. Google Analytics

Where you consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the website is used and identify opportunities to improve its content, navigation and performance.

Google Analytics may process information including:

• pages viewed;
• website interactions;
• session information;
• referral source;
• browser and device information;
• approximate location;
• technical identifiers; and
• information about website performance.

We use Google Analytics for website measurement and improvement.

We do not use Google Analytics through this website for personalised advertising, remarketing or cross-site behavioural profiling.

Google Analytics must remain disabled until you actively:

• select Accept all; or
• enable analytics cookies through the cookie preference centre.

You can withdraw your consent at any time using the website’s cookie settings.

9. Google Search Console

We use Google Search Console to understand how the website appears and performs in Google Search.

Search Console may provide aggregated information such as:

• the search terms through which the website appeared;
• the number of times website pages appeared in search results;
• the number of clicks received from Google Search;
• click-through rates;
• average search positions;
• general country and device information;
• website indexing information;
• crawling issues;
• website performance issues; and
• technical or security notifications relating to the website.

This information helps us:

• understand how people find the website through Google Search;
• improve website content and structure;
• identify technical or indexing problems;
• monitor organic search performance; and
• improve the visibility and accessibility of the website.

Google Search Console focuses principally on activity occurring within Google Search before a person arrives on this website.

Search Console does not place a Search Console cookie on your device through this website. It is therefore not included in the cookie table above and does not require a separate cookie preference.

Website ownership has been verified with Google using an approved site-verification method. The verification record or token proves that an authorised person controls the website. It is not used by NJB Legal to identify or track visitors.

If Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager has been used as one of the verification methods, their separate operation remains subject to the cookie and privacy controls described elsewhere in this policy.

To the extent that information made available through Search Console constitutes personal data, NJB Legal processes it where necessary for its legitimate interests in:

• managing and improving the website;
• monitoring organic search performance;
• identifying website faults;
• protecting the website; and
• ensuring that website information can be found by relevant users.

We balance these interests against the rights and reasonable expectations of website users.

10. Our legal basis

The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations apply where information is stored on, or accessed from, a visitor’s device.

Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent where they are essential to:

• provide a service requested by the visitor;
• maintain appropriate security;
• detect fraud or technical faults; or
• remember the visitor’s cookie choices.

For Google Analytics and any other non-essential cookies used under this policy, NJB Legal relies on consent.

Where information collected through an analytics cookie constitutes personal data, our lawful basis under the UK General Data Protection Regulation is also consent.

You are not required to accept analytics cookies to:

• access the website;
• read its content;
• contact NJB Legal; or
• submit an enquiry.

Google Search Console does not rely on cookies placed through this website. Where its aggregated reporting involves the processing of personal data by NJB Legal, we rely on our legitimate interests in monitoring and improving the website and its search performance.

11. How we obtain consent

When you first visit the website, you should be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to:

• accept all optional cookies;
• reject all optional cookies; or
• choose which optional cookie categories you wish to enable.

Optional cookies will remain disabled unless you make an affirmative choice to enable them.

The following will not be treated as consent:

• continuing to browse the website;
• closing or ignoring the banner;
• inactivity; or
• pre-selected cookie settings.

Your choice may be recorded so the website can respect it during future visits.

We may ask you to review your preference again after a reasonable period or where our use of cookies changes materially.

12. Changing or withdrawing your consent

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by selecting the Cookie Settings link in the website footer or using the cookie-control icon displayed on the website.

Withdrawing consent will prevent the relevant cookies from being used in future.

Where technically possible, the cookie preference tool may also remove cookies previously placed through the website. You can separately remove existing cookies using your browser settings.

Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

13. Browser controls

Most internet browsers allow you to:

• view cookies placed on your device;
• delete some or all cookies;
• block first-party or third-party cookies;
• block cookies from particular websites;
• block all cookies; or
• delete cookies when the browser closes.

Browser controls vary. Please refer to the privacy, security or cookie section of your browser’s settings or help pages.

Blocking all cookies may affect website functions that depend on strictly necessary cookies.

Browser controls should not be treated as a replacement for the choices provided through this website’s cookie preference tool.

14. Third-party websites and services

The website may contain links to websites operated by other organisations.

Following an external link does not mean that NJB Legal places additional cookies on your device. However, the external website may use its own cookies or similar technologies when you visit it.

NJB Legal does not control cookies used by external websites. You should review the privacy and cookie information provided by the relevant organisation.

If embedded content such as videos, maps, booking systems or social-media features is introduced, we will assess whether those services use cookies or similar technologies.

Non-essential third-party content will be blocked until the appropriate consent or other valid legal condition has been established.

15. International transfers

Some technology providers, including Google, may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal data is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer is protected in accordance with UK data protection law.

These steps may include reliance on:

• UK adequacy regulations;
• the UK International Data Transfer Agreement;
• the UK Addendum to approved standard contractual clauses; or
• another legally recognised safeguard.

Further information about international transfers is available in our Privacy Policy.

16. Retention

Individual cookies remain on your device for the periods shown in the cookie table unless:

• you delete them sooner;
• you withdraw consent;
• your browser removes or restricts them;
• the cookie is replaced; or
• we change the relevant configuration.

Information obtained through Google Analytics is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for website measurement and improvement.

Search Console information is reviewed and retained for as long as it remains relevant to monitoring and improving website and organic search performance.

We periodically review our cookie use and data-retention settings.

17. Your data protection rights

Where information collected through cookies, analytics or other website technologies constitutes personal data, you may have rights including the right to:

• request access to your personal data;
• ask us to correct inaccurate information;
• request erasure in certain circumstances;
• restrict processing in certain circumstances;
• object to processing based on legitimate interests;
• withdraw consent at any time; and
• complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Further information about these rights is available in our Privacy Policy.

18. Complaints

Please contact us first if you have a question or concern about our use of cookies, Google Analytics, Google Search Console or personal data.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator responsible for data protection and electronic communications privacy.

19. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect:

• changes to the website;
• the introduction or removal of technologies;
• changes to our service providers;
• changes to the purposes for which information is used;
• changes to Google Analytics or Search Console; or
• developments in legal or regulatory guidance.

The latest version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.

Where a change materially affects the scope or purpose of an existing consent, we will request fresh consent before using the relevant cookies for the new purpose.

20. Contact us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and website technologies, contact:

NJB Legal Limited
Trading as NJB Legal
Registered office: 7 Charter Court, Winsford, England, CW7 2FY
Company number: 16921195
Email: Nicholas.ball@njb-legal.co.uk