Buy to Sell Property

Cookie Policy — buytosellproperty.co.uk

Last updated: 28 August 2026.

This policy explains what cookies are, which ones this website uses, and how you can control or delete them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with personal information generally.

Who we are

Buy To Sell Property is a trading name of 5JE London Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15891621), whose registered office is 249 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 4TG. You can reach us about anything in this policy at info@buytosellproperty.co.uk.

What this site sets today

There is no advertising tracking on this site, and nothing here follows you to any other website.

If you create an account and sign in, the site sets one cookie. It records that you are signed in and nothing else — it carries no name, no email address and no record of what you looked at. It is removed when you sign out, and it expires on its own if you do not come back. If you never create an account, it is never set.

That cookie is strictly necessary for signing in to work at all, so it does not require your consent.

Our hosting provider also sets one cookie of its own, named `GAESA`, to every visitor. It is used to keep your visit on the same server while you browse, and it holds no information about you — no name, no email address, no record of the pages you looked at, and nothing that follows you to another website. It is a strictly necessary cookie and it does not require your consent either.

Analytics is the one thing we would ask you about, and no analytics cookie is ever set on this site unless you have said yes. Whether analytics is in use at all is shown at the foot of this page, under Your cookie choices. That panel reads the site's own settings and your own answer, so it states the position as it is right now rather than as it was when this page was written.

  • If it says analytics is not in use, there is nothing to accept or refuse

and no notice will appear anywhere on the site. Only the two cookies above are set.

  • If analytics is in use, a notice at the foot of every page asks you before

anything is set, and it stays there, setting nothing, until you answer it.

Whichever way you answer, we record your answer in a third cookie so that we do not ask you again. It is described below with the other two.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file made up of letters and numbers that is downloaded onto a device when a person visits a website. Cookies are used to make a site work and to improve your experience — for example, remembering that you are signed in, or measuring how many people use the site so we can keep it running quickly.

Cookies cannot be used to extract information from your device.

Types of cookie

There are a number of different types of cookie: session cookies, persistent cookies, first-party cookies and third-party cookies.

  • Session cookies last only as long as your browser is open. They link your actions on a website together during a single visit and are deleted as soon as the browser is closed, so nothing is stored permanently.
  • Persistent cookies remember your preferences or actions across visits. The information collected can be used across multiple browser sessions.
  • First-party cookies are set and handled directly by Buy To Sell Property. They cannot be accessed or read by any other website.
  • Third-party cookies are cookies we have given a separate website permission to set. They allow that separate website to record certain actions you take here.

We further separate cookies by whether they are essential, required or optional.

  • Essential cookies are needed for the site to work at all and cannot be turned off — for example, a cookie that keeps a note of whether you are signed in. Turning these off would break the site.
  • Required cookies are different from essential ones because the site would still work without them. Analytics cookies are the usual example.
  • Optional cookies enable things that are neither essential nor required. You can choose not to accept optional cookies.

The cookies this site uses

Essential — three cookies

The sign-in cookie. Signing in sets one cookie so the site remembers you on that browser. It is signed so it cannot be tampered with, it is refreshed while you keep visiting, it expires after sixty days away, and signing out revokes it. There is no password stored in it, because there are no passwords: we email you a single-use link instead. If you never create an account, it is never set.

The hosting cookie (`GAESA`). Set by our hosting provider to every visitor, to keep a visit on the same server while you browse. It holds nothing about you and does not follow you anywhere else. We do not read it and it is not used for analytics.

The cookie-choice cookie (`bts_cookie_choice`). Set when you answer the cookie notice, and set whether you accept or refuse. It holds two things and nothing else: the word `accept` or the word `reject`, and the date you chose. There is no identifier in it, nothing that could be traced back to you, and nothing that leaves this website.

It is an essential cookie even though it is about a choice: it is the record of the answer you gave, and it is the only reason the site does not ask you the same question on every page. It lasts six months, after which we may ask again so that a decision you took long ago is not treated as one you took today. Refusing analytics still sets it — a refusal has to be remembered, or it is not respected.

Required — analytics, and only if you accept

We use no analytics cookies unless you have accepted them. When analytics is switched on, we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read.

If you accept: the Google Analytics tag is loaded on that page and on the pages you visit afterwards, and it sets its own cookies (`_ga` and a cookie beginning `_ga_`) on this website. They are used to count visits and to tell a returning visitor from a new one. We use what they measure to decide which pages to improve; we do not use them for advertising, and we do not sell them.

If you refuse: nothing happens. The Google Analytics tag is not loaded at all — it is not requested, not downloaded and not present in the page — and no analytics cookie is set now or on any later visit. Your refusal is remembered and you are not asked again for six months. Nothing on this site is withheld from you, and nothing works differently.

If you have not answered yet: the same as refusing. Nothing is loaded and nothing is set while the notice is on screen, however long you leave it there.

If you change your mind: use Cookie choices at the foot of any page, or the panel at the foot of this one. Withdrawing is one click, exactly as accepting is, and it does two things: the Google Analytics tag stops loading from the next page you open, and the analytics cookies already on your device — `_ga` and the one beginning `_ga_` — are deleted there and then. That matters because those cookies hold the identifier Google gave you: if they survived a withdrawal, saying yes again later would pick the same identifier straight back up and the withdrawal would have reset nothing.

Refusing after you have previously accepted does the same: the answer is changed and those cookies are removed.

What we cannot reach is anything Google holds at its end, which is Google's to hold and not ours to delete. If you want that removed as well, Google's own privacy tools are the place to ask.

Optional — none

We use no optional cookies. If that changes, they will be listed here and you will be able to refuse them.

Third-party cookies

Google Analytics, described above, is a third-party service, and its cookies are third-party cookies. They are set only if you accept them, and never before.

We do not use live-chat, split-testing or advertising cookies on this site. If that ever changes, they will be listed here and they will be optional.

We do not reproduce property photographs from listings, and we link out to the selling agent's own listing instead. Following one of those links takes you to another company's website, which will have its own cookies and its own cookie policy. We do not control them.

How to control cookies

On this site. Your answer about analytics can be changed at any time, from two places, and both take one click:

  • Cookie choices, in the Legal column at the foot of every page. It clears

the answer we have stored and brings the notice back so you can answer again.

  • Your cookie choices, the panel at the foot of this page. It tells you what

you chose and when, and lets you change it there and then.

Withdrawing is deliberately no harder than agreeing. Once you refuse, no analytics is loaded on the next page you open.

In your browser. Every major browser lets you see which cookies are set, block them, and delete them. The controls are usually under Settings, then Privacy — the exact route differs between browsers and changes with new versions, so the most reliable instructions are the ones your own browser publishes:

  • Google Chrome — Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies / Delete browsing data.
  • Safari — Settings (or Preferences), then Privacy, then Manage Website Data.
  • Microsoft Edge — Settings, then Cookies and site permissions.
  • Mozilla Firefox — Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Cookies and Site Data.

Blocking all cookies will stop the investor sign-in from working, because the site will have no way to remember that you are signed in.

How to delete cookies

The same menus above include a way to clear cookies and site data, either for one website or for all of them. Nothing in your account is affected by deleting them, and nothing is lost: deleting the sign-in cookie simply signs you out, and deleting the cookie-choice cookie means the notice will ask you again the next time you visit.

If you have accepted analytics and then deleted our cookies, we have no record of your answer any more, so you will be asked again — and nothing is set until you answer.

Changes to this policy

If we change the cookies we use we will update this page and change the date at the top.