Media Insurance Brokers Limited Website at www.mediainsurance.com uses cookies and similar technologies to personalise and improve your experience when you use our website. This document explains what these technologies are, why we use them and your rights to control our use of them.

This Cookie Policy is incorporated to our Privacy Policy, which you can consult for more information on how we process your data. If you continue to browse the site without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time by clicking Manage Cookies in our website footer. 

1. What are cookies? 

Cookies are small text files placed on your device which uniquely identify your device. All of your devices have different cookie settings. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device. You can learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies can be set by us (“first party cookies”) or by selected other companies who place cookies on our site to enable features or functionality to be provided on or through the website you are using, such as advertising, interactive content and analytics (“third party cookies”). The third parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your device both when it visits our website and also when it visits certain other websites or services. These service providers are subject to confidentiality provisions with us to restrict their use and collection of any personal data. However, please note that we do not control these third party cookies and we suggest you read the third parties’ privacy policies.

2. Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies? 

We use cookies and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us and the third parties we work with to track and target the interests of visitors to our website, and we refer to these as “performance” and “functionality” cookies. For example, we use cookies to tailor content and information that we may send or display to you and otherwise personalise your experience while interacting with our website and to otherwise improve the functionality of our services. Finally, third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

3. What categories of cookies may be used? 

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our website and the purposes they perform are described in further detail below:

Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Cookie name: csrf_token
A security cookie used to identify the user and prevent Cross Site Request Forgery attacks.
Expiration: 2 hours
Type: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name: last_activity
Records the time of the last page load. Used in in calculating active sessions.
Expiration: 1 year
Type: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name: last_visit
Date of the user’s last visit, based on the last_activity cookie. 
Expiration: 1 year
Type: Strictly Necessary

Cookie name: tracker
Contains the last 5 pages viewed, encrypted for security. Typically used for form or error message returns.
Expiration: Session
Type: Functionality

Cookie name: visitor_consents
Saves responses to Consent requests for non-logged in visitors
Expiration: 1 year
Type: Strictly Necessary

4. How can I control cookies? 

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.

Website cookie preference tool: You can exercise preferences about what cookies are served on our website by click Manage Cookies on our website footer. 

Browser controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Mozilla Firefox

Disabling most Interest Based Advertising: Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu.
 
Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of Interest Based Advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and no further data collection or tracking will occur. The random ID we (or our third party partners) had previously assigned to you will also be removed. This means that if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.

5. Changes to our cookie policy? 

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 25th April 2021. We may update it from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Notice page regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.