Etico Group Limited Cookie Policy

1. This Cookie Policy explains how Etico Group Limited (collectively referred to as Etico Group "we", "us" or "our" in this Cookie Policy) uses cookies to recognise you when you visit our website at https://www.eticogroup.co.uk ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What Are Cookies?

2. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

3. Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Etico Group) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies". Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why Are Cookies Used?

4. First and third-party cookies are used for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for a website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable businesses to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on a website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics and other purposes.

Cookies Used by Etico Group Limited

5. To confirm, we only use third party cookies on our Website for analytical purposes. Our Website is therefore not reliant on your acceptance of cookies for functionality purposes.

Necessary Cookies

Cookie Consent

Cookie Name Purpose
cookieControl Used to determine whether cookie consent preferences have been selected.
cookieControlPrefs Used to store cookie consent preferences.

Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics

Cookie Name Purpose
_ga Used to distinguish users.
_gid Used to distinguish users.
_gat Used to throttle request rate.

6. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

7. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Updating this Cookie Policy

8. We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

9. This Cookie Policy was last updated on 5th May 2021.

10. If you have any queries regarding how we collect Cookies, please contact our Head of Compliance Ashley Wilson via email complaints@eticogroup.co.uk.