Cookie Policy

Last updated: 18 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Michael Anthony Estate Agents (“Michael Anthony”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website at michaelanthonyestateagents.co.uk.

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides further information about how we collect, use and protect your personal information.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies help websites operate effectively and can be used to remember preferences, provide website functionality, understand how visitors use a website and support marketing activities.

Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

How We Use Cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Ensure our website works correctly and securely.

• Remember your preferences and settings.

• Support property searches and other interactive website features.

• Enable valuation requests, enquiries and website forms.

• Understand how visitors use our website.

• Monitor and improve website performance.

• Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing.

• Provide relevant advertising where you have consented to marketing cookies.

Our website includes property searches, branch information, property valuation requests, sales and lettings services and enquiry functionality. Cookies may be used to support these features and provide a consistent experience while you use the website.

Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are required for the website to function correctly.

They may be used for purposes including:

• Website security.

• Maintaining website sessions.

• Remembering your cookie preferences.

• Processing forms.

• Supporting property search functionality.

• Ensuring pages and website features operate correctly.

These cookies do not normally require your consent because they are necessary to provide the website and services you request.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

The information collected may include:

• The pages you visit.

• How long you spend on particular pages.

• How you arrived at our website.

• Links and buttons you interact with.

• Your browser and device type.

• Your approximate location.

• Website errors and performance information.

• How you navigate through and leave the website.

Our Privacy Policy confirms that we may automatically collect technical information including IP addresses, browser information, operating systems, URLs visited, page response times, visit duration and interactions with website pages.

We use this information to monitor website performance and improve the experience we provide to visitors.

Where required, analytics cookies will only be used after you have provided consent.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help provide enhanced website features and remember choices you make.

They may be used to:

• Remember property search criteria.

• Retain selections as you navigate between pages.

• Remember website preferences.

• Support forms and interactive website features.

• Provide embedded third-party services.

If these cookies are disabled, some areas of the website may not work as intended.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of our advertising and to make advertising more relevant to visitors.

These cookies may:

• Record visits to our website.

• Measure whether an advertising campaign resulted in an enquiry or other action.

• Help us understand the effectiveness of online advertising.

• Create audiences for advertising campaigns.

• Help prevent the same advertisement from being shown repeatedly.

• Allow advertisements to be tailored based on website activity.

Our website currently includes technology associated with Meta/Facebook and Google Tag Manager, which may be used to support analytics, advertising or website measurement services depending on the cookies and tags that are enabled.

Non-essential marketing cookies will only be used where you have provided the appropriate consent.

Third-Party Cookies

Some functionality on our website is provided by third-party organisations.

These organisations may place their own cookies or use similar technologies when their services are loaded.

Third-party services used on or linked from the website may include:

• Website analytics services.

• Google services.

• Meta/Facebook services.

• Property search and property listing technology.

• Mapping or location services.

• Conveyancing and financial service providers.

• Embedded content and social media services.

Our website also links to third-party services such as property portals and conveyancing providers. When you leave our website and visit another website, that organisation’s own privacy and cookie policies will apply.

We do not control cookies placed directly by independent third-party websites.

Property Search Cookies

Our website provides property search facilities allowing visitors to search for properties based on criteria such as location, price and whether a property is available for sale or rent.

Cookies or similar technologies may be used to:

• Maintain your search criteria.

• Remember your selections.

• Improve property search functionality.

• Understand how visitors interact with property listings.

These technologies help make it easier to browse available properties without repeatedly entering the same information.

Forms and Valuation Requests

The website allows visitors to submit enquiries and request property valuations.

Cookies may be used to support these forms, maintain sessions, prevent spam and ensure information is submitted correctly.

Information that you actively enter into a form is not itself a cookie. Personal information submitted through our website will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie banner or consent tool.

This allows you to choose whether to accept optional cookies such as analytics, functional or marketing cookies.

You can refuse non-essential cookies without preventing strictly necessary cookies from operating.

Where consent is required, non-essential cookies should not be placed on your device until you have made your choice.

Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through the cookie settings available on our website.

Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before your consent was withdrawn.

Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie settings because they are required for the website to operate.

Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to manage cookies through their settings.

Depending on your browser, you may be able to:

• View cookies stored on your device.

• Delete individual cookies.

• Delete all stored cookies.

• Block third-party cookies.

• Block cookies from particular websites.

• Prevent websites from storing cookies.

Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may prevent parts of our website from functioning correctly.

Instructions for managing cookies can usually be found within the privacy or security settings of your browser.

Personal Data Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the cookie or technology being used, information collected may include:

• Your IP address.

• Browser type and version.

• Device information.

• Operating system.

• Online identifiers.

• Approximate location information.

• Pages visited.

• Search activity.

• Website interactions.

• Dates and times of visits.

• Referral information.

Michael Anthony’s current Privacy Policy confirms that technical and website usage information may be collected automatically when visitors use the website.

Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal data, it will be handled in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation and our Privacy Policy.

How Long Are Cookies Stored?

How long a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie.

Session cookies generally remain active only while your browser is open and are deleted when you close it.

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you manually delete them.

Third-party service providers may set their own retention periods for cookies they control.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to:

• The cookies and technologies used on our website.

• Our website functionality.

• Third-party services.

• Our business operations.

• Applicable laws or regulatory guidance.

Any updates will be published on this page and the date at the top of this policy will be amended accordingly.

We recommend checking this policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how your personal information is handled, please contact:

Data Protection Officer
Michael Anthony Estate Agents
Ground Floor
Victoria Square
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 3TF

Email: liz.tubb99@gmail.com

Michael Anthony’s current Privacy Policy identifies Michael Anthony as the data controller and provides these contact details for data protection enquiries.

You can also contact your local Michael Anthony branch:

Bletchley
01908 648666
bletchley@maea.co.uk

Hemel Hempstead
01442 260025
hemel@maea.co.uk

Milton Keynes
01908 393553
miltonkeynes@maea.co.uk

Tring
01442 891177
tring@maea.co.uk

Website: michaelanthonyestateagents.co.uk