Like many companies, Punter Southall Group (PSG) (we, us and our) use technology on our website to collect information that helps us enhance your online experience, discover how you use our website and measure the effectiveness of those campaigns.
At Punter Southall Group we respect your concerns about privacy and value the relationship we have with you. The cookies we use allow our website to work and help us to understand what information is most useful to visitors.
A cookie is a text file containing information which is downloaded to your desktop or laptop computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit our website. Cookies are useful because they allow our website to recognise your device. Cookies are then sent back to our website on each time you visit, enabling the website to “remember” you or your device. A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites.
When we refer to cookies throughout this Policy, we intend to cover all similar devices including web beacons and log files. You can find more information about cookies at All About Cookies, Your Online Choices or About Cookies.
Part of creating an enjoyable and lasting experience for our customers is to use cookies to process information in order to better understand what you want from our site. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your device.
Examples of the types of information we collect via cookies are:
Please note: we do not collect your name or email address via cookies.
Cookies help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you visit our website.
When you use our website, the following categories of cookies may be set on your device:
These cookies are set by Punter Southall Group and can be:
In addition to our use of these applications, certain third parties may set and access cookies on your computer, and in conjunction with web beacons:
The length of time cookies are stored on your device can vary, but they generally fall into two categories: temporary session or persistent cookies.
We use temporary session cookies on all of our secure pages to assign and store a session ID to you so that you can move uninterrupted between the areas of our site. This session ID is also used for internal reporting purposes. It is not personally identifiable to you, and this type of cookie does not leave any retrievable information on your hard drive. Most of our first-party cookies are session cookies which expire when you close your internet browser.
Our first-party analytics cookies and third-party cookies are persistent cookies because they are used to help us understand visitor patterns over a longer term or to provide additional functions you have requested in relation to site customisation and saved or stored content. They can be stored on your computer for 24 hours, a week, or several years, depending on the function they're helping to perform.
We use the cookies detailed below:
Cookie Name | Source | Purpose | Type | Expires |
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_ga | Google Analytics | To enhance and improve your experience on our website, ensure the security of our website facilities | Persistent | 2 Years |
cookie_notice_accepted | PSG Website | To store information about your cookie policy acceptance | Persistent | 1 Month |
We have integrated components of LinkedIn and Twitter on this website. Each individual page that you visit, where the social media plug-in is integrated, your information will be collected by, transmitted to and stored by the provider of that social media plug-in.
The information collected and transmitted includes your IP address, the address of the website the social media plug-in is located, your browser information and operating system used, data and time the website was accessed or activated.
We will only set cookies on your device if you have provided consent. If you are concerned about having cookies on your device, you can use your browser settings to:
You can find out more information about controlling cookies from:
In addition, if you use Firefox or Internet Explorer 11 there is an option to turn on the Do Not Track functionality, which allows you to tell websites not to track you. Google has also published a browser add-on to allow you to choose what information about your websites you visit is sent to Google Analytics, this can be downloaded here. Full details on the cookies set by Google Analytics are published on the Google website.
Please note: if you choose to disable some or all cookies, you may not be able to make full use of our website and some useful features will not work.
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Punter Southall is a trading name of Punter Southall Group Limited. Registered office: 11 Strand, London WC2N 5HR. Registered in England and Wales No. 4096788
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