COOKIE POLICY

This is the Cookie Policy for Ivy Mortgages. We are dedicated to safeguarding your privacy, and this policy explains how we use cookies on our website to enhance your experience and make your visits more effective.

What are cookies? Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites and occasionally by emails. They provide useful information to organisations, helping them make your website visits more efficient and effective. We use cookies to better understand how you interact with our website, which allows us to make improvements. Cookies do not contain personal or confidential information about you.

How we use cookies To ensure the best experience on our website, we use cookies. On your first visit, we’ll ask for your consent to use cookies, and we recommend allowing them to be active to enhance your browsing experience.

Types of cookies we use We use three types of cookies on our website:

1. Session cookies: These are deleted after each visit.
2. Persistent/tracking cookies: These remain across multiple visits.
3. Third-party cookies: Used by services such as Google Analytics.

Session and persistent cookies are essential for website functionality. You can delete cookies via your browser settings, but this may limit website functionality. For guidance on disabling cookies, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website: http://www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.

• Session cookies expire after you leave the website, do not store personal data, and are not saved on your device.
• Persistent cookies last beyond a single visit. We use Google Analytics to track site popularity and visitor trends. This tracking cookie does not contain personal data but identifies your IP address to show your location and track your page visits.
• Optional cookies These cookies are provided by business partners and help filter out information not relevant to you.

Accepting or blocking cookies You can manage cookies through your browser settings. For more guidance on disabling cookies, visit the ICO’s website. Note that sharing your computer may impact cookie settings for all users on that device.

Cookies and demographic data We may use data from Google’s interest-based advertising or third-party audience data (like age, gender, and interests) alongside Google Analytics.

More information For further details on cookies, visit the Information Commissioner’s website: www.ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies.