Cookie Policy
Our website (https://imcfs.co.uk) uses cookies to better understand your experience while visiting the website.
On this website, the usage of cookies is no way linked to any personal identifiable information. The cookies are only available while you are navigating online, once you close your browser, the cookies simply terminates.
You can reject the use of cookies. The only downside to this is that your web experience will be limited – you won’t be able to experience the full dynamic or tools that our website has to offer or was designed for.
Who are we and how to contact us
Cookies are small files which are stored on your device and hold data relating to a specific website. Cookies are placed on your device by the website and accessed each time you browse the site. The cookies used by IMC Financial Services are standard and harmless.
Why do we use cookies?
The use of cookies allows us to track, save and store information about your interactions and usage of the website (via Google Analytics), which allows us in return, to collect data that will help us improve our website by seeing which parts of the site are being used, how users are navigating to each page and what items on each page they prefer to click on.
Which cookies do we use?
We would like you to know which cookies IMC Financial Services uses and why we use them. Below we have listed each of the cookies that our website and third parties (such as Google) sets with details as to why we use them. We have also included information about the time the cookie is kept on your device (is it kept after you leave the website, to be used when you next return – persistent – or deleted once your visit is completed and only used for that visit – session).
| Cookie | Description and Purpose | Type |
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| _ga | These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors navigate the site. | Expires after 2 years |
| _gid | This helps us to improve our website development strategies to ensure the site is working as it should. | Expires after 24 hours |
| _gat_gtag | This cookie is used to throttle request rate. | Expires after 1 minute |
| _utma | Cookie that stores the number of visits for each user, the time of the first visit, the previous visit and the current visit. Used for analysing the website statistics to improve our development and marketing strategies. | Expires after 2 years |
Google Analytics
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| _utmb and _utmc | Cookies used to measure the duration of your visit: _utmb takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site and _utmc takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site. | Expires after 30 minutes (from the last interaction from visitor) |
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| _utmt | This cookie is used to throttle request rate. | Expires after 10 minutes |
| _utmz | This cookie records whether the visitor came from a search engine (and if so, the search keyword used), a link or from no previous page. | Expires after 6 months. |
Security
| _cfduid | Cookie used to identify individual users behind a shared IP address and apply security settings. We use this cookie to identify trusted web traffic and prevent unauthorised access and security breaches. | Expires after 5 years. |
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Share
| uvc | This cookie is used to track usage of the Addthis.com services. Used to allow a user to share our blog posts (and other content) with many other social sites. | Expires after 24 hours |
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How to opt-out of the use of cookies?
If you wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on your device, we advise you to take the necessary steps within your web-browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external platforms. Remember, the opting out will be applied only to the browser or device you are currently using, so you may need to change the settings again if you use other browsers or devices.
We will make every effort to recognise and respect your choices, however, there is a small chance that not all cookies and similar methods of data capture will be covered by these browser or device settings.
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