A cookie is a text file containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your browser when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful as they effectively act as a memory and allow a website to recognise a browser and remember what it has done in the past, this may be such things as login in, pressing certain buttons or reading certain pages.
Cookies do lots of different jobs and generally, their main purpose is to improve user experience, they may do this by remembering your preferences or helping you navigate between pages on a website. Cookies can also help to ensure adverts you see online are of interest to you and relevant.
If you would like to find out more information about cookies you can visit the following websites; http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
Types of Cookies
Cookies can be categorised into four main groups, these groups are not exhaustive and the categories are reviewed on a regular basis to ensure they still accurately reflect the cookies used by websites.
Category 1: Strictly Necessary Cookies
Quick Overview: This type of cookie enables you to use services you have specifically asked for.
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the store. Without these cookies website functions such as order processing are not possible. This type of cookies may also be referred to as a Session Management Cookie.
Category 2: Performance Cookies
Quick Overview: This type of cookie collects anonymous information on the pages you visit.
These cookies gather information on how visitors use a website, for example, which pages are most popular or when error messages are displayed. These cookies do not collect any information that identifies a visitor. All information collected is anonymous and is purely used to improve how a website works.
Category 3: Functionality Cookies
Quick Overview: These cookies remember choices you make to help improve your user experience.
This type of cookie allows a website to remember the choices and selections you make, things such as a user name, preferred language or region you are in are. This knowledge then allows the website to tailor its features to provide you with a more personal enhanced experience. An example of this may be a website that provides local weather or travel information to you. This type of cookie only functions for a specific website and any information collected cannot be used on other websites.
Category 4: Targeting or Advertising Cookies
Quick Overview: These cookies collect information about how you browse the internet and then use this to target advertising relevant to your interests.
This type of cookie is used to deliver adverts that are targeted at your interests based on the websites you have visited. They are also used to limit the number of times you see adverts and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. This type of cookie is usually placed by advertising networks with the permission of the website operator. They remember if you have visited a website and then share this information with other organisations such as advertisers.
Why do Elementary Mortage Solutions Use Cookies?
We want to provide you with the best experience possible when using our website, and cookies help us achieve this.
What Cookies do Elementary Mortage Solutions Use?
Elementary Mortage Solutions use a category of Cookie known as Analytical Cookies;
This type of cookie collects anonymous information on the pages you visit.
These cookies gather information on how visitors use a website, for example, which pages are most popular or when error messages are displayed. These cookies do not collect any information that identifies a visitor. All information collected is anonymous and is purely used to improve how a website works.
Not Accepting Cookies or Requesting Cookies be Disabled after Acceptance
You do not have to accept cookies from Elementary Mortage Solutions. It is entirely down to the user to determine how they wish to manage their web browsing experience.
Once you have provided us with consent to use cookies, you may, of course, change your mind in which case you entitled to withdraw consent at any time.
All major browsers allow you to amend your cookie options or simply disallow them altogether. You can usually find out how to this in the help menu of your browser. The following website provides information for all recent versions of popular browsers used on the market today. https://www.aboutcookies.org/