Cookie Policy

Neilson Financial Services is committed to protecting your privacy and we promise to treat it securely, fairly and lawfully.

When we collect any personal information through our website and technology platforms, we will be transparent about what we collect, why we collect it and how we intend to use the data.

Protecting our customers is at the heart of everything we do at Neilson Financial Services and protecting your information is no exception. We use cookies on our website and other similar technologies to collect anonymous data so that we can improve and enhance your experience when you use our services. These cookies allow us to:

  • Make our website work as effectively and efficiently as possible.
  • Enhance your browsing experience
  • Arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly
  • Collect statistical information to provide us with information on how our customers use our website and our products.

We will collect information about how you use our website to:

  • Remember how far you are in the online application form you are completing
  • Provide advertising that is more relevant to you when you are visiting our, or other, websites promoting our products for example via retargeting cookies
  • Track the effectiveness of our online and offline marketing campaigns.

You may wish to prevent the use of cookies on your browsing experience by adjusting your browser settings (for information on to do this please see below Accept or Block Cookies)

 

What are Cookies

“Cookies” are small piece of text files which are sent to your browser and stay on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. Cookies do not damage your device they are used to ‘remember’ you when you visit our website again. Cookies alone cannot be used to identify you.

A cookie will transport information about how you use our website to us. The cookie does not keep any of the data it collects.

Cookies are often referred to as session or persistent cookies, depending on how long they are used:

  • Session cookies only last for your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
  • Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for the period specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the site where the cookie was generated.

In addition to how long a cookie is kept on your computer, a cookie is then divided into four types:

Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable services you have specifically requested such as requesting a quote and/or purchasing a product.

Strictly necessary cookies

Purpose

Period

ARRAffinity

Used to request routing and load balancing by our hosting platform, Microsoft Azure.

Session

 

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our website, for instance which pages you visit most often, and if you experience error messages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies you. All information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve your experience whilst visiting our website.   

Performance cookies

Purpose

Period

_ga,

Used to distinguish users

Persistent - 2 years

_gid

Used to distinguish users

Persistent - 24 hours

_gat

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.

Persistent - 1 minute

  Apart from cookies we also use local storage and tags to help us enhance your browsing experience.

  • Local storage is like a cookie, except the information collected by local storage is not sent to an internet server unless there is a specific reason for us to store the data collected (i.e. for analytics purposes).

Like cookies, local storage is stored locally on your machine, within your browser like cookies, history, saved pages, etc. Local storage contains ‘name/value’ pairs (i.e. postcode / SL1 1JL, surname / ‘Smith’) and a web page can only access data stored locally within its domain.

  • Tags are a small piece of code which is placed on our website and collects data. This code would only collect data on our website. A tag will not be stored on your browser; however, it may use a cookie which could be placed on your browser.