Cookie Policy

This cookie policy is part of Companies House Gibraltar's privacy notice, and covers the use of cookies between your device and our site.

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.

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you should instruct your browser to refuse cookies from https://www.companieshouse.gi, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired content and services.

We only use essential cookies that are required for the website to function.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, etc. We use essential cookies to enable certain functions on our website.

The cookies we use and how we use them

Cookie Domain Purpose Duration
4DSID_CH(G)L v19 www.companieshouse.gi This cookie stores a text string with the user's session id. It is necessary for this website to work correctly. 4 hours
CHG-cookie-accepted www.companieshouse.gi This cookie remembers if cookie consent was given. It is necessary for this website to work correctly. 1 year

How you can control or opt out of cookies

If you do not wish to accept cookies from us, you can instruct your browser to refuse cookies from our website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device.

If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

  • For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
  • For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
  • For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
  • For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

  • For any other web browser, please visit your web browser's official web pages.


    Log data

    When you visit our website, our servers automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. This site does not capture or store personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically logged by the Web server. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. On its own, this information does not contain any personally identifiable data on any individual user. Your IP address in conjunction with user login credentials may be used to help identify the web account holder during a particular session, to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site.