Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Personalize our site to you to help you get what you need faster
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
- Display relevant advertising
- Marketing the senior housing and care facilities on our website
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are ok with this.
Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
- Tailoring content to your needs
- Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey)
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which uses cookies:
YouTube
Google
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.
Cookies are set by:
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Site Improvement Cookies
We regularly test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at, geography, etc.
This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you.
We use:
Google Analytics
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work in compliance with generally accepted privacy standards.
You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies although we would prefer that you didn’t as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won’t see advertisements, just simply that they won’t be tailored to you any longer.
Banner Advertisements
We fund our site by showing advertisements as you browse our site. These advertisements are usually managed by a partner specializing in providing advertisements for multiple sites. Invariably, these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visit so they can personalize the advertisements to you, ensure that you don’t see the same advertisements too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which advertisements are working.
Affiliate Cookies
We have a number of partners who we promote their services on a success-only basis (i.e. instead of paying for advertising, they pay us commissions on sales). Cookies are required to allow us to be rewarded by these partners and these cookies are usually provided by specialist companies (known as affiliate networks). We ask you to support us by allowing these cookies which ultimately help us to offer you the content we do for free. Our affiliate cookies are provided by:
CJ
ShareaSale
Rakuten
Pepperjam
Amazon
FlexOffers
BuyerZone
AvantLink
Impact Radius
QuinStreet
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser, you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software. The above list of the types of cookies that may be used on our website is not meant to be comprehensive. Our advertising partners and vendors may change their cookie and privacy policies from time to time, and we may as well, so we encourage you to review the policy updates and your browser settings periodically and contact us with any concerns.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.