Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier, that is sent to your computer or mobile phone browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive.
In the SelfBuild Insurance’s website, cookies allow us to identify your visit and to collect information about how you have used our site.
SelfBuild Insurance will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block cookies which are set by the SelfBuild Insurance’s website, you can do this through your browser settings. The help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the SelfBuild Insurance’s website. Visiting our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you want to use SelfBuild Insurance’s products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies.
The SelfBuild Insurance’s website does not use any third party cookies other than the analytical cookies noted below.
List of the SelfBuild Insurance’s cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| NAME |
DETAILS |
LIFESPAN |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
1 year |
| OptanonConsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
1 year |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
Session |
Performance Cookies
| NAME |
DETAILS |
LIFESPAN |
| _gid |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
A few seconds |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx |
Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
1 year |
| _gclxxxx |
Google conversion tracking cookie |
2 months |
| _ga |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
1 year |
| _gac_UA-38259600-1 |
This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. |
2 Months |
Targeting Cookies
| NAME |
DETAILS |
LIFESPAN |
| _fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
2 Months |
| GCL_AW_P |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: Online Advertising. |
2 Months |
| _GRECAPTCHA |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
5 months |