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 website.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use and any other legal or operational reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies.
About Cookies
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. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
“Session cookies” are downloaded to your computer temporarily for the period that you browse a particular website; these cookies might allow you to navigate between pages more efficiently or enable websites to remember the preferences you select. “Persistent cookies” can be used to help websites remember you as a returning visitor or ensure the online adverts you receive are more relevant to your interests. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies to perform various functions across our website.
We may 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 or to keep you logged in when you use our website so you are not required to log in every time you visit. These cookies are deleted when you close your web browser (browser session).
- Performance cookies. These cookies 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. They also allow us to see how effective our adverts are and to assess errors within the user experience. While these cookies do not identify you personally while you are not logged in, they will collect your browser information and anonymised data, for the purposes outlined above. In certain cases, some of these cookies are managed by third parties such as Google Analytics. These third parties are not capable of using these cookies for any purpose other than those outlined above and they are unable to identify with these cookies. Performance cookies are valid for varying periods. Such cookies can be deleted at any stage using your browser settings.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They also enhance the functionality of our websites by storing your preferences. 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). Functional cookies expire after a maximum of 2 years. Functionality cookies can be deleted from your browser history at any point before their expiry time.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visits 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 or share this information with third parties for this purpose, as detailed in our Privacy Policy. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, collect information about browser habits to target website content and to target advertising and to provide advertisers with information on your visit so that they can present you with adverts that you may be interested in.
Advertising Partners
We may partner with third party advertising networks and exchanges in order to display advertising on our websites or to manage and serve our advertising on other sites. Our main advertising partner is Venatus Media Limited (whose privacy policy is accessible here: https://www.venatusmedia.com/privacy/). We and our third party partners may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixels and web beacons, to gather information about your activities on our website and other sites in order to provide you with targeted advertising based on your browsing activities and interests. All third parties with which we share this information are required to use your personal data in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Policy.
Please note that turning off advertising cookies will not mean that you are not served any advertising, merely that it will not be tailored to your interests.
Analytics Providers
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies
Please also note that we use Google Analytics, which places cookies on your computer, to help the website analyse how visitors use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing to us other services relating to website activity and internet usage. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (i.e. cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB . Please visit: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 for further information on how Google uses your data.
Rejecting Cookies
You 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 strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Some internet browsers - like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari - include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. We respect this setting and our website will not track you if you enable this option.
Alternatively, you could visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer. To learn about controlling cookies on the browser of your mobile device please refer to your handset manual.
Further Information
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, the purposes for which we use them, and when they will expire by contacting us at conrad@valiantinvestments.co.uk