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Cookies

Cookie-Policy

What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. The web site that created the cookie can then access it at a later time to recover the information, for example for use on a different page.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like keeping track of choices you make during your quote journey, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

As well as the site setting cookies it is possible for them to be set by a third party. These are known as third party cookies.

How we use cookies
We use anonymous analytics cookies to better understand how our visitors navigate to and through our website, how long visitors spend visiting our content items and how often they return to visit our website. Anonymous analytics cookies also assist our marketing colleagues to track the effectiveness of the money we spend on our digital marketing campaigns.

All our cookies that measure website usage can be found in the table below.

Name Purpose Expires
__ga Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. 1 year
_gid Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. 6 hours
_gat Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites) 18 hours
_ga_* Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. 1 year

 

This site does not use targeting or advertising cookies.

How do I turn cookies off?
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser.