Cookies Policy
Irwell Insurance Company Limited sends cookies to your computer from the website.
Irwell Insurance Company Limited uses cookies and tracking software to monitor traffic patterns and site usage in order to develop the design and layout of the website to better meet the needs of visitors to the website. This will include non-specific data such as mouse-movements and pages visited.
Should you wish to refuse to accept cookies or restrict the data that we collect through our tracking software, you can alter your cookies settings in your browser.
What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disc for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the internet more useful to you because they contain information about your preferences on particular websites, which allows website owners to provide more useful features for their users. For more information on cookies please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Cookies are commonly used to record some aspect of your visit to a site, such as choices you’ve made or preferences you’ve set during your visit.
How and why we use cookies
We use cookies to give you the best experience when you visit our website. Cookies can also allow us to tailor the content of our website so we can show you services we think you may be interested in.
Keeping your personal information safe
Our cookies do not store personal information such as your name, address, phone number or email in a format that can be read by others. The cookies we use cannot read or search your computer, smartphone, or web-enabled device to obtain information about you or your family, or read any material kept on your hard drive.
Links to sites provided by others
If you follow a link from our website to another website, please be aware that the owner of the other website will have their own privacy and cookie policies for their site. We recommend you read their policies as we are not responsible or liable for what happens at their site.
How to manage and switch off cookies
Your web browser provides settings that allow you to manage or switch off cookies. If you do switch off cookies, remember that you may not be able to use all of the services on our website.
You can find out more about managing and switching off cookies at the independent website: allaboutcookies.org.
The types of cookies we use on this site
Performance cookies
These cookies help us to monitor and improve how our website works.
Common uses for this type of cookie include:
- Collecting information about which pages visitors go to most often
- Noting if visitors get any error messages from web pages
The information collected using these cookies is anonymous and cannot be used to identify an individual visitor.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow us to provide you with enhanced features that need to remember your preferences and choices, such as your language or region. They also let us monitor how our website is performing so we can keep on improving it.
Common uses for this type of cookie include:
- Remembering what chosen language you prefer our site to show when visiting.
- Login information to easily sign into your account on your next visit
The information we store in these cookies is encrypted so that only we can read it.
Session Cookies
Session cookies monitor your activity when you are on the website for analytical and user experience information and are deleted when you leave our website.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies are files that are stored on your hard drive until they are manually deleted or they expire. Persistent cookies are used to remember your visit, preferences, usernames, or other information that could be useful on your return to our website.
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how people are using our site, to help us understand how we can improve it. Google Analytics collects information in an anonymous form such as pages visited, browser and operating system used and time spent viewing pages. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.