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COOKIE and WEBSITE USE POLICY

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We use necessary cookies to make our website work. We would also like to set some optional cookies. We won’t set these optional cookies unless you enable them. Please choose whether this site may use optional cookies by selecting ‘On’ or ‘Off’ for each category below. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences.

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We’d like to set cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. For more information on these cookies, please read our full Privacy Policy at <<Insert website address>>. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form. Data is only used in aggregate.

1. Cookies and other internet tracking technology

  • When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, which is sent back to us at a later time. These are called ‘cookies’. These cookies are listed in the table at clause 5. Some websites don’t use cookies but use related technology for gaining information about website users such as JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise advertising content. Multiple cookies may be found in a single file depending on which browser you use.
  • Where applicable, this section of the Policy also relates to that technology but the term ‘cookie’ is used throughout.
  • Some of these cookies are essential to services you’ve requested from us, whereas others are used to improve services for you, for example through:
    1. Letting you navigate between pages efficiently
    2. Enabling a service to recognise your computer so you don’t have to give the same information during one task
    3. Recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don’t need to enter it for every web page requested
    4. Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast
  • To learn more about cookies, you may wish to visit: allaboutcookies.org, www.youronlinechoices.eu or www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/
  • This Website uses, or allows use of, the following cookies:
Cookie nameCookie qualitiesConsent needed
_gaContains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.
• Category 2 - performance
• First party: we're placing the cookie
• Persistent cookie, expiry: After a year 		Yes
_ga_*Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.
• Category 2 - performance
• First party: we're placing the cookie
• Persistent cookie, expiry: After a year 		YES
_gcl_au Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data.
• Category 4 - targeting and advertising
• Third party: another website is placing the cookie
• Persistent cookie, expiry: After 3 months 		YES
  • The distinctions referred to in the above table are as follows:
    1. First party versus third party cookies – we set first party cookies ourselves; third party cookies are set by other entities via our Website.
    2. Session versus persistent cookies – session cookies only persist for the duration of that visit; persistent cookies last for longer.
    3. Categories 1-4 found in the ICC UK Cookie guide, as explained below. Category 1 cookies don’t require your consent, though we must still tell you about those cookies. Categories 2-4 do require your specific and informed consent
Category 1Strictly necessaryThese cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided. We include in this category cookies that are used only for electronic communication. (The ICC doesn't refer to these cookies, but the law is the same.)
Category 2PerformanceThese cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. This information is only used to improve how a website works.
Category 3FunctionalityThese cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as a live chat session.
Category 4Targeting and advertisingThese cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant 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 are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
  • As with any other information we may collect from you, we’ll work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using appropriate technology to encrypt information you input.
  1. Your legal rights
    • Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information.
    • You have the right to:
      1. Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a ‘data subject access request’). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
      2. Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new information you provide to us.
      3. Request erasure of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we’re required to erase your personal information to comply with the law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request for erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
      4. Object to processing of your personal information where we’re relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we’re processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
      5. Request restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal information in the following situations:
        1. if you want us to establish the information’s accuracy;
        2. where our use of the information is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
  • where you need us to hold the information even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
  1. you have objected to our use of your information but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  1. Request the transfer of your personal information to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  2. Withdraw consent at any time where we’re relying on consent to process your personal information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
  • You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
  • We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
  • We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
  1. Further information
    • If you would like any more information or you have any comments about this Policy, or if your wish to exercise any of your legal rights, please write to our Data Protection Officer as detailed in clause 4.
    • Please note that we may have to amend this Policy on occasion, for example if we change the cookies that we use. If we do that, we will publish the amended version on the Website. In that situation we will endeavour to alert you to the change, but it’s also your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether this Policy has changed.
    • You can ask us for a copy of this Policy by writing to the above address or by emailing us at info@safeguardip.com. This Policy applies to personal information we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organisations.
Safeguard iP (SIP) is committed to protecting your personal data when you use our services and website.
Whenever you provide such data we are legally obliged to use your data for a lawful purpose, the processing must be fair and transparent in line with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR).

Cookies, web statistics and third-party monitoring

SIP maintains continuous logs of its web server activity. These log files include the details of website users’ IP address, browser type and page last visited etc. The log files are used to analyse how the website is being used by visitors and may be kept in an anonymised form for historical records.
SIP uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software (such as Google Analytics, Awstats etc) to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This data is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

SIP website uses hosted web analytics software. This hosted service is provided and managed by a third-party company (Google, Inc).

The service ‘Google Analytics’ uses ‘cookies’ (a text file sent to users’ computers as they browse our website) to help analyse how users navigate our website. The data generated by the cookie regarding our website (including IP addresses) will be anonymised and trans mitted to and stored by Google, Inc. on servers that may be hosted in the United States. Google, Inc. will use this data for the purpose of evaluating use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other related services to HISL.
Google, Inc. may also transfer this data to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the data on Google, Inc’s. behalf. Google, Inc. will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google, Inc. You may decline the use of cookies by configuring your web browser to do so, but it may affect your user experience. By using this website, you consent to the pro cessing of data about you by Google, Inc. in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Offensive or inappropriate content on SIP website

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on this website, Safeguard iP is a trading name of Safeguard iP Limited which is an Appointed Representative of HISL Brokers Limited. Safeguard iP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under firm registration number 623971 to provide insurance intermediation services. Safeguard iP Limited is registered in England and Wales, its company number is 09048290 and registered address is 7th Floor 1 Minster Court, Mincing Lane, London, England, EC3R 7AA. Page 2 of 2 SIP may use your personal data to stop such behaviour.
Where SIP reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the law (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), we may use your personal data to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
Whenever you provide such data we are legally obliged to use your data in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal data including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679.

Changes to this Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it regularly.

Contacting SIP

Please note that telephone calls, including mobile communications, may be recorded.
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