A cookie is a small text file comprised of numbers and letters that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables our website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, which helps us provide the best user experience to you on our sites. Cookies also make our websites work appropriately.
Other similar tracking technologies are also used to achieve the same function. Pixels are used to record information such as the time, location and operating system of the device a user has used to click through to our website from an email or advert. Browser or device fingerprinting collects information about a browser or device used to access our website to recognise this on future visits.
We use cookies and related technologies to understand and improve our websites, systems and your experience, including personalising content, adverts and social media features.
Essential Cookies
We are allowed to store cookies on your computer which are essential for our website to function. No permission is required for these cookies.
These are required for our website to function and these cookies let you use all the different parts of our websites. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
Non-Essential Cookies
For all non-essential cookies, we rely on your permission which is obtained by clicking “Allow All” on our cookie banner or via our “Manage Cookies” Page. Your cookie preference shall remain valid until either (i) your preference is updated by you, or (ii) 6 months has passed since you gave your consent; after such time the Cookies banner will appear on your next visit to our website and you will be required to confirm your cookie preferences again. Furthermore, you can access the “Manage Cookies” below at any time to update your preference. Acceptance or withdrawal of consent for non-essential cookies above will change consent for all types of non-essential cookies.
The Non-Essential Cookies utilised on our website are as follows:
Most cookies store data in relation to the current brand/website which a user is interacting with. However, some cookies, which are identified belong as “global” cookies, have the facility to track data across the user’s use of the websites of our other M&B brands (a list of brands and outlets can be found at www.mbplc.com). Please be assured that such cross-brand tracking is only utilised if the user has provided cookie consent to each of the brands individually. More detail on the cookies with this facility and the purposes of such tracking is set out below
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Advertisement
Description: This cookie is set by Meta to deliver advertisements to users when they are on Facebook and / or Instagram, or a digital platform powered by Meta advertising after visiting this website.
Duration: 3 Months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Advertisement
Description: This cookie is set by Meta to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook and / or Instagram, or a digital platform powered by Meta advertising after visiting this website.
Duration: 3 Months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This cookie is used to store the visitor ID for the returning visitors.
Duration: session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
Duration: 2 years
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Advertisement
Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.
Duration: 1 Day
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
Duration: 1 minute
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Functional
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used for saving the user action such as Click on Login across different pages.
Duration: session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used to collect information for Dynatrace. Its a system to track application performance and user errors.
Duration: session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used for storing a numeric value.
Duration: session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used to store two timestamps.
Duration: session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Performance
Description: This cookie is set by the provider Dynatrace. This is a session cookie used to collect information for Dynatrace. Its a system to track application performance and user errors.
Duration: session
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Clicks & Mortar, one of our technology providers, for the purpose of enhancing your experiences on this website. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. The cookie is used to persist session state. This cookie will also be utilised in order for the Refer a Friend and Spin To Win features to work and the cookie will track referrals (and acceptances) and/or the number of spins by a guest and will be used to identify guests to provide guest rewards.
Duration: 12 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: .sonofsteak.co.uk
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Clicks & Mortar, one of our technology providers, for the purpose of enhancing your experiences on this website. The cookie stores information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. The cookie is used to understand visitor, session, campaign data and to tailor and personalise website experiences for returning visitors. This cookie will also be utilised in order for the Refer a Friend and Spin To Win features to work and the cookie will track referrals (and acceptances) and/or the number of spins by a guest and will be used to identify guests to provide guest rewards.
Duration: 12 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Domain: mab.api.uk.clicksandmortar-production.com
Type: Analytics
Description: This cookie is installed by Clicks & Mortar, one of our technology providers, to anonymously store a randomly generated number, facilitating the understanding of visitor, session, and campaign data. It enables personalised website experiences for returning visitors and overall user experience improvement. Additionally, the cookies allow tracking of preferences and online behaviour across M&B Brands and multiple devices, enhancing the ability to tailor experiences based on guests' preferences and online behaviour.
Duration: 12 months
Essential or Non-Essential: Non-Essential
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
If you wish to block or restrict cookies set by this or any other website you can do so through your web browser's settings. The "Help" function (often in the main menu options at the top of your browser screen, and usually accessible by pressing the F1 key in Windows) should tell you how to do so.
Many browsers give a range of options for managing cookies, including obtaining consent for every cookie, blocking certain types of cookie and blocking cookies from unrecognised websites. You can set your browser to block all cookies; however, you should be aware that many sites will not work as smoothly as you are used to and some basic functionality that is dependent on cookies will not work at all.
The following links go to the relevant help sections for the major web browsers and explain how to manage your cookies:
Chrome - https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Safari OS X - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html
Safari iOS - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677
Internet Explorer - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
Firefox - http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Cookies?s=cookies&r=0&e=es&as=s
If you have any questions about how our website uses cookies, please contact our Data Protection Officer at any time using the following contact details:
Data Protection Officer
27 Fleet Street, Birmingham B3 1JP
Please also see our Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 3rd May 2022
