Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They help improve your experience by remembering preferences and enabling website functionality.

How do I turn cookies off?

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Types of Cookies

We use the following types of Cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for the operation of our website
Performance/Analytic Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
Functionality Cookies: Allow us to remember your preferences
Targeting/Advertising Cookies: Used to deliver relevant ads

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

Ensure the website functions properly
Improve website performance and user experience
Analyse usage and trends
Deliver relevant marketing content

List of Cookies

The following is a list of cookies set by the site:

__sreff

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: A session cookie used to calculate time spent on website and number of viewed pages. Gets deleted after the session expire.
Type: Analytics
Expiry: 1 hour
Opt out: Click here to opt out of Google Analytics

__reff

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: Stores all the details about all past referrers for at least 2 years.
Type: Analytics
Expiry: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Opt out: Click here to opt out of Google Analytics

_ga_*

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.
Type: Analytics
Expiry: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Opt out: Click here to opt out of Google Analytics

_ga

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
Type: Analytics
Expiry: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Opt out: Click here to opt out of Google Analytics

PHPSESSID

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
Type: Necessary
Expiry: Session

AWSALBCORS

Provider: live.opayo.eu.elavon.com
Purpose: This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing.
Type: Necessary
Expiry: 7 days

visid_incap_*

Provider: opayo.cloud
Purpose: Incapsula sets this cookie to provide cloud-based website security services.
Type: Necessary
Expiry: 1 year

incap_ses_*

Provider: opayo.cloud
Purpose: This is an Incapsula DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall cookie that is used to relate HTTP requests to a certain session.
Type: Necessary
Expiry: Session

AWSALB

Provider: live.opayo.eu.elavon.com
Purpose: AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target.
Type: Performance
Expiry: 7 days

_gcl_au

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services.
Type: Advertising
Expiry: 3 months

__stripe_mid

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: Stripe payment cookie to provide fraud prevention.
Type: Functionality
Expiry: 1 year

__stripe_sid

Provider: mobilephoneinsurancedirect.com
Purpose: Stripe payment cookie to provide fraud prevention.
Type: Functionality
Expiry: 30 minutes