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Introduction
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. Accordingly, we will ask for your explicit consent to use non-essential cookies when you first visit our site.
Cookies Explained
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Therefore, they are fundamental to the operation of modern websites. We may also use similar technologies, such as web beacons or tracking pixels within emails, to understand whether you have opened our communications and engaged with them.
Your Consent
When you first visit our website, a banner will appear requesting your consent to place non-essential cookies on your device. Consequently, you are provided with a clear choice to either accept or reject these cookies. It is as easy to reject all non-essential cookies as it is to accept them. For the avoidance of doubt, strictly necessary cookies do not require your consent.
Types of Cookies
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
- Analytical or Performance Cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functional Cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
Specific Cookies
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below. Your website developer will need to confirm these details are accurate.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Type | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | The Tax Investigation Helpline | To store a unique session identifier for website functionality. | Strictly Necessary | End of session |
| cookie_consent | The Tax Investigation Helpline | To store your cookie consent preferences. | Functional | 1 year |
| _ga | Google Analytics | To distinguish users for statistical purposes. | Analytical | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | To distinguish users for statistical purposes. | Analytical | 24 hours |
Third-Party Cookies
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. For example, we use Google Analytics to collect and analyse website statistics. Google Analytics generates this information by means of cookies and its privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. If you wish to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Managing Cookies
You can change your cookie preferences at any time. Subsequently, you can do this by clicking the cookie settings link which is available in the footer of every page. This will redisplay the consent banner, allowing you to amend your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely. Moreover, you can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, please be aware that blocking all cookies, including essential ones, may result in you being unable to access all or parts of our site.
Policy Changes
We may amend this cookie policy at any time. Any changes we may make to our cookie policy in the future will be posted on this page. Therefore, we advise that you check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made.
Contact Us
Questions, comments and requests regarding this cookie policy are welcomed. Accordingly, please direct any queries to us via the contact details provided on our website.
