Cookies Policy
Piccadilly Mortgages uses cookies to make our website easier to use, to deliver a more personalised web experience, and to help us to tailor our products and services to better suit your interests and needs.
Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies if you so wish. When you visit our website, a pop-up window will allow you to disable cookies when using our site.
To help you decide, this policy will explain to you what cookies are, what types of cookies we may use, and what are they used for.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to any internet-enabled device – such as your computer, mobile or tablet – when you visit a website.
We use cookies to keep track of services you have used, record registration information and your user preferences, keep you logged into the website and track the pages you visit. Cookies help us understand how the site is being used and improve your user experience.
Some cookies are essential for making the website work properly so that you can move around our website and use its features. Other cookies are used so that we can optimise the look and feel of the website and fix any errors.
What types of Cookies do we use?
The following types of cookies may be used when you visit the Site:
- Necessary cookies
These cookies are essential and allow you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for can’t be provided. These cookies don’t gather information about you that is used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
- Functional cookies
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
- Analytics cookies
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. These cookies let us know what features on the website are working the best and what features could be improved.
You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, simply visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- Performance cookies
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
- Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
These cookies are used to tailor marketing to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organisations such as advertisers, if you give your consent. Although these cookies can track your visits to other websites, they don’t usually know who you are. Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests.
Controlling your Cookies
When you first visit our website, a pop-up window allows you to opt-in or out or customise your cookie preferences. Please note if you opt-out of receiving cookies some parts of our website may no longer work properly. Each subsequent time you visit our website, you will have the choice to change your cookie preferences by clicking on the cookie circle at the bottom left-hand corner of the website. Once you have disabled a cookie, we will stop using it to gather information.
Check your browser’s help section for specific details about how to disable cookies. You can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise Google Display Network ads using the Ads settings (https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ ads or opt out using Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/).
Good online resources for additional information about cookies and how to block them are: www.aboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/.
We continually update our technology so that we can provide you with the most efficient and useful tools. These updates include how we use cookies, placement of new cookies as well as the extension to older cookies to make them more efficient so that we can provide you with a better service. This list will be updated from time to time, you should check back on a regular basis for changes.