Last updated: 05/11/2025
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Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies are not programs and therefore cannot contain viruses or other malicious software. They are purely a string of text and numbers. This website uses cookies as outlined below to help tailor and make our website and your browsing experience better! Your personal data will not be stored for any sinister purposes please rest assured!
Cookies being used
PHPSESSID cookie
This is a session ID cookie which is stored to allow the CMS system which renders each page in this website know which pages it has rendered during your browsing session. It stores a random number ID which has nothing to do with you or your browsing behaviour.
Google Analytics 4 cookies
Google Analytics is a system used by many websites to record anonymous information about who visits a website. We have the Google Analytics data retention setting set to 26 months. More information relating to Google Analytics and personal data can be found here – https://privacy.google.com/businesses/. Lastly, we don’t use Google Analytics Identifiers or User IDs to track users.
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
| _ga_<container-id> | 2 years | Used to persist session state. |
Google uses the cookies as above. These cookies are used mainly to differentiate between first time visitors to a website and repeat visitors. They do not contain any personally identifiable information. You can find out more about how Google use cookies at http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. You can also review Google’s Privacy Policy on analytics here http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. You can optout of Google Analytics on all sites by installing this browser plugin http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Google reCAPTCHA
We use Google reCAPTCHA on this website to help protect the forms on this website from spam, analyze user traffic and distinguish humans from bots. More information is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB.
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _grecaptcha | 6 months | Used to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. Risk analysis, bot detection, spam prevention. |
Cookie Compliance notice
We float an information banner at the bottom of the website which documents the cookies this website uses. From this banner you can select from 3 levels of consent to control what cookies the website is permitted to use. When you interact with this banner, we use a cookie to store this information and hide the banner from appearing again automatically as detailed below:
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| hu-consent | 30 days | Used to store the user’s explicit consent preferences, such as tracking usage behaviour, optimising experience, or enabling marketing functionality. |
Elfsight
To provide the social media sharing buttons on our news/blog posts, we use a 3rd party service from Elfsight which sets cookies as outlined below to enable the social sharing buttons on the news/blog post pages to function. The content is made available by Elfsight, LLC, 0015, Armenia, Yerevan, Paronyana, 19/3, 201. All information is processed in agreement with their privacy policy – https://elfsight.com/privacy-policy/.
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _p_hfp_client_id | 1 day | This is an Elfsight cookie which prevents hyped-up views whilst implementing social platforms on this website. |
Zoho
We use Zoho Forms on 4 pages in our website to provide x4 forms: The Quick Quote, Full Application for Individuals, Full Application for Corporates and also the Medico-Legal Advice form. As part of the delivery of these forms, Zoho uses a single load-balancing cookie as described below to enable these forms to function correctly. Please see https://www.zoho.com/privacy/cookie-policy.html for more information.
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| zalb_ followed by a 10-character sequence of numbers or alphanumeric characters. | Session | Load balancing and session stickiness |
LinkedIn Ads and Insights Targeting
We use marketing and advertising tools from LinkedIn, including the LinkedIn Insight Tag. This technology places cookies on your device that allow us to measure the performance of our advertising campaigns on LinkedIn and understand how visitors who arrive from LinkedIn use our website. These cookies also help us build anonymous audience lists (retargeting), which allow us to show relevant advertising to our website visitors on the LinkedIn platform. As stated in our site’s cookie notification, by continuing to use this website, you consent to the placement and use of these cookies for these advertising purposes.
Controlling or deleting cookies
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- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
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Further information
If you have any questions about how we use cookies please contact us today.
