Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files, typically made up of words and numbers, that are placed on the device you are using by websites that you visit.

Cookies do a variety of useful jobs and are widely used in order to make websites work or work more efficiently and provide information to the owners of the site.

This website sets a range of cookies including analytical cookies that enable Google Analytical software to work. We use Google Analytics to collect information that helps us to accurately calculate the number of visitors to our website and see how these visitors move around the site when they are using it.

These cookies may collect the IP address of your device but do not collect or store personal information that can identify you as a visitor. This information can only be seen by the relevant teams at Octagon and Google and never shows any confidential information.

The data collected by these cookies is anonymous and is used to improve how our website works and the services we offer to our customers.

How we use Cookies

We use the following four Google Analytical performance cookies:

• This enables us to ascertain the number of unique visitors to the website and is updated with each page view.
• Cookie’s used establish and continue a user session on the website. Each time a user visits a different page this cookie updates for a further 30-minute period. The cookie then remains in existence for a further 30 minutes, either from initial creation or a subsequent update.
• The cookie remains in existence until you have closed your browser.
• This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach the website, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within your own site. The cookie is updated with each page view and expires 6 months from initial creation or a subsequent update.

Digital Advertising

These cookies allow third parties to identify what you find popular, allowing a more personalised and relevant selection of advertisements to be displayed when you browse the internet. They normally won’t just be from us, but build an overall, but anonymous, picture of an individual’s preferences based how they have browsed the internet, in order to deliver more relevant advertising.

Google Adverts

Manages display advertising around the site, and gathering data for targeted advertising www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/

Managing cookies

Most web browsers will allow some management of cookies via your browser settings.
For further information about managing cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
For further information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org