Alan Boswell Group Cookie Policy
Cookie usage policy
This website uses cookies to help you in your interactions with the site.
Cookies are small files placed on your computer's hard drive, or in your browser memory, when you visit our website. It helps us speed things up for you when you come back. It tells us what parts of the site you visit, what you like and what's most relevant to you. What cookies don't do is store any personal or confidential information about you.
To ensure you get the best from our website, we advise that users keep cookies active on their machine whilst visiting our website.
You may not be able to access certain existing client features or apply for new products if you browse with cookies disabled.
What does this site specifically use cookies for?
Session cookies
Most of the cookies we use are session cookies, lasting only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. No personally-identifiable data is collected. These simply enable us to identify that the same person is moving from page to page.
We store and collect the following information via session cookies:
- An internal tracking cookie to allow the recording of source websites (referrers), specific campaign information and pay-per-click (PPC) campaign identifiers.
Persistent cookies
We also use certain cookies that are persistent, meaning that they last beyond your session enabling an enhanced user-experience when you return to the site.
- This site uses Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics) to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. Analytics uses a cookie to help track which pages are accessed. The cookie contains no personally-identifiable information, but it does use your computer's IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site.
Additional information
From time to time, we may embed external content from third party websites (e.g. Facebook, YouTube) within our website. These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that will apply to such third-party content will be published on the website of that third-party content provider.
Opting out of cookie usage
You can stop third party cookies (such as those we use for Google Analytics) being stored on your computer by blocking third party cookies from within your browser. Blocking these cookies will not impact your browsing experience.
You can also block all cookies through your browser - however, you may find that many areas of our site will no longer work so we would recommend against this.
Alan Boswell Group understands that Article 5 (3) of the e-Privacy Directive came into force on 25th May 2011 and that the UK government is currently exploring how best to technically implement this directive. Alan Boswell Group has provided this information to abide with the spirit of Article 5 (3) of the e-Privacy Directive.
For further information about managing and disabling cookies, you can refer to your browser's help section or user guide. Alternatively, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has produced a guide (see www.allaboutcookies.org) which explains to users how cookies work and can be managed.