Our Website Policy & Cookie Information

Pareto Financial Planning Ltd is committed to protecting all users of our websites. The below information outlines how we use cookies, why, and how this allows us to improve our service and the experience you have when using our websites.

This website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 2018) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into effect in May 2018.

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

Cookies are small data files of information that a website or mobile application transfers to your hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies do lots of useful things from remembering your preferences to allowing us to monitor the performance of our website. Although cookies do identify a user’s device, cookies do not personally identify users.

WHY & HOW WE USE COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to monitor visitors to better understand how they use it. This helps us to improve our website and App and to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE

We may use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies These are cookies that are required for the operation of a website, such as to enable you to log into secure areas.

Performance cookies These types of cookies recognise and count the number of visitors to a website and see how users move around in each. This information is used to improve the way our website works.

Functionality cookies These cookies recognise when you return to a website, enable personalised content and recognise and remember your preferences.

Targeting cookies These cookies record your visit to a website, including the individual pages visited and the links followed.

Generally, the strictly necessary cookies and some performance and functionality cookies only last for the duration of your visit to a website – these are known as ‘session cookies’. The functionality cookies and some targeting and performance cookies will last for a longer period of time – these are known as ‘persistent cookies’.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Some of the persistent and session cookies used by our website may be set by us, and some are set by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf. For example, we use Google Analytics to track what users do on our website so we can improve the design and functionality.

DELETING COOKIES

To remove or prevent cookies from being stored on your computer in the future, please refer to your internet browsers instructions, or to opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information on how to delete cookies please visit: https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/.

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.