Cookie Policy

As with most professional websites these days, this site uses cookies. Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your computer when you visit a website and they are designed to improve your experience when browsing. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also let you know how you can prevent these cookies from being stored but please be warned that doing so may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies please see Wikipedia’s article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

All the quotes you take on our website are provided by Seopa Ltd and as such, they need to set a variety of cookies to make the quotation system work. The cookies used are as follows:

Cookie name

Purpose of Cookie(s)

PHPSESSID

This cookie allows Seopa Ltd to operate their web servers so that saving details and running an insurance quote comparison is possible. The quotes page would not work without it.

AFFID, AFFKWID, WLKWID, CREF

These cookies are used to log users who place a quote on this website and report to Seopa Ltd for the purpose of affiliate tracking.

AWSELB

This cookie allows Seopa Ltd to save the details of the user so running a quote is possible.

curef, cqrefcuref, cqref

These cookies allow Seopa Ltd to save and re-run a quote for a specific user.

quote_ref, quote_ref_creation_date

This cookie allows Seopa Ltd to encrypt a users details associated with their unique quote reference number.

rid, crid, user_name

These cookies are used to log which of our users have entered our site from a renewal email campaign.

EmailTracking, emv_campaign, emv_click,emv_content, emv_email, emv_medium, emv_source, emv_url

These cookies are used by Seopa Ltd to log various statistics about different email campaigns. This allows us to know how successful particular campaigns have been.

key, value

This cookie is used to display a captcha to a user who is carrying out too many quotes on a short time interval on our website. This helps with security and server load on our system.

has_js

This cookie records whether JavaScript is enabled in your browser, to ensure we display the appropriate content. This is a session based cookie and will be deleted once your session expires.

incap_ses, visid_incap, nlbi

These cookies are used for security to filter out malicious requests to Seopa Ltd.

__utma, __utmb, __utmc,__utmt, __utmv, __utmz, __ga, __gid, __gat

These cookies are Google Analytics which are used to gather anonymous information on how visitors are using our website, drop-off pages as well as which device and web-browser they use.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you. There is a lot of information to take in so if you have any questions or you are unsure about anything then please get in touch with one of our customer services team via email or by phone. Our customers are our number one priority so if you need any help at all, whether it be about cookies or even if you have any feedback about the site then get it touch, we would love to hear from you!