Privacy & Cookie Policies


CWIFA

Privacy Policy


Wheatley IFA Ltd understand their obligations in regards to your fundamental right to a private life and have implemented systems and controls to ensure your rights and freedoms are protected.

Wheatley IFA Ltd undertake to meet their obligations under the Data Protection Act, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Please see our Privacy Notice for full details.


Cookie Policy


About this Cookie Policy

You should read this policy to understand what cookies are and how we use them. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Notice.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As with most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are set by the website owner and are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any information to personally identify you.

The third-party cookies are set by parties other than the website owner, and are used on websites mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with the website, keeping services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience to help speed up your future interactions with the website.

Many websites on the internet use Google Analytics. The Google Analytics tool collects anonymous information about how visitors use the website, for example how many visitors came to the website and when, what browsers visitors use and how long visitors stay on the site. This data does not contain any information that is personal to you. Read Google's overview of privacy & safeguarding data.

Please be aware that third Party Cookies may be set if you visit other websites via a link on this website. These other websites may send their own cookies to your browser once you visit pages. These cookies will be set from those domains not from our website and we do not and cannot control the use of cookies on other third party websites.

What types of cookies might we use?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.

Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. This data helps us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Advertising: These cookies are used to personalise advertisements shown to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of ad campaigns.

The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

The list below details the cookies used on our website.


Cookie with description

1P_JAR - advertising cookie which carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

ANID - advertising cookie - stored in google.com

CONSENT - used to record who visits site, their location, activity, preferences.

NID - preferences cookie which contains a unique ID that Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20) and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.

SEARCH_SAMESITE - prevents the browser from sending the cookie along with cross-site requests.

cookiebar - remembers your cookie preferences on this domain and will expire in 30 days


Most of these cookies are asssociated with Google Universal Analytics, Google Maps and Google reCaptcha and are used to distinguish unique users, gather information such as number of visitors to the website, which pages have been viewed and how long visitors stayed for, collect website statistics, remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language and consent setting. No information which can identify you personally is stored in these cookies. Also see Types of cookies used by Google


How can I control the cookie preferences?

Should you decide to change your preferences later on, you can click on the link on the bottom of any page.

In addition different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Also see Google's Managing cookies in your browser.

To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

Find out how to manage cookies on popular web browsers:

Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
Apple Safari

To find information relating to other web browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To learn more about how Google Analytics uses cookies, and to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How often will you update this Cookie Statement?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies.