Cookie Policy

Winstree Financial Services Limited – Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

·        Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

·        Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

·        Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

·        Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Title

Cookie Name

Purpose

More information

Google Analytics

_ga
_gali

_gcl_au

_qca
_dc_gtm

 

_gat_mm_<random unique character string>

 

_gid

 

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. The cookies collect information; including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visit

 

 

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.

 

Used to distinguish users.

 

First and Third party cookies.
Persistent.
Please see Google’s privacy policy for more details.

First party. Persistent

Third party. Persistent, 24 hours

 

Outbrain

 

This Advertising partner uses these cookies to measure your response to that ad, for example to see if you click on the ad or to limit the number of times you see it. This is done to show you ads that are more relevant to you.

 

Third-party cookie

Advertising cookie
Please see Outbrain’s Privacy Policy for more details.

 

Facebook

 

This pixel allows us to measure and analyse marketing efforts, and serve the most relevant advertising to the correct audience.

 

Third-party cookie

Persistent, storage set for duration of 180 days.
Facebook is a social media platform used by both individuals and organisations or different brands. We use cookies and similar technologies to personalise content and digital advertising, provide social media features and analyse marketing efforts. Find out more on Facebook’s Cookies and other storage technologies policy.

 

Google / DoubleClick/ Youtube

 

Google uses cookies for many purposes. They use them, for example, to remember your safe search preferences, to make the ads you see more relevant to you, to count how many visitors we receive to a page, to help you sign up for our services, to protect your data, or to remember your ad settings.

Here are the types of Cookies used by Google.

Google also uses cookies in various ways such as remarketing and Google Analytics which help run your ads or track performance of the ads. The conversion tracking feature of Google Ads and DoubleClick also uses cookies to help track sales and other conversions from your ad, it adds a cookie to a person’s computer when the person clicks an ad.

These include Cookies relating to preferences, security, process, advertising, session state, and analytics.

We use various domains to set cookies used in our advertising products, including, but not limited to, the following domains

  • adwords.com
  • doubleclick.net
  • googletagmanager.com
  • youtube.com

A full list can be found on Google’s privacy policy

 

 Third Party.

 

enc_aff_session_* 

enc_aff_session_* – This is an offer-specific cookie and includes your transaction_id and IP address for tracking conversions.

Third Party, 30 days

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control.  To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies [include link to consent management solution]].

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.