What are cookies?
Like most other websites, Vantage’s website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device by your browser. They are used for many things, such as remembering whether you have visited our site before, matching content to your preferred interests or to help us work out how many new website visitors we get each month.
This policy explains how cookies are used on our website, what cookies may be set when you visit our website and how to manage and delete them.
About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to Vantage’s website and mobile applications.
Throughout this Cookie Policy, any references to our website cover any website or mobile application maintained by Vantage (“we”, “us” and “our”). This Cookie Policy forms part of our website security and privacy provisions.
By accessing our website, you agree that this Cookie Policy will apply whenever you access our website on any device.
We reserves the right to update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted within this page and shall become effective as soon as they are posted. Continued use of the website constitutes your agreement to all such updates.
Our use of cookies
We may collect information automatically when you visit the website, using cookies or local storage in the case of mobile. This allows us to identify your computer and find out details about your last visit.
- Cookies help us recognise you as a unique visitor when you return to our website, allowing us to tailor your online experience.
- They enable us to measure and understand how visitors use our site, driving improvement.
- We might store information entered in tools, such as calculators or demonstrations on our website. This information may need to be temporarily stored to deliver these types of services efficiently and is not used for any other means.
If you choose not to allow cookies, the quality of your browsing experience may be reduced. Information collected by cookies does not directly identify you; but it does identify your computer and your connection to the internet. We only collect general information about your computer settings, your connection to the Internet e.g. operating system and platform, IP address, browsing patterns and interactions with our sites.
For more information on cookies, please visit these useful sites:
About Cookies.org - http://www.aboutcookies.org/
Information Commissioner’s Office - http://www.ico.gov.uk/
Types of cookies we use
The cookies used on our website and other applications include:
- Strictly necessary cookies
- Performance cookies
- Functionality cookies
Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for our site to function and allow you to access secure areas.
Strictly necessary cookies are used to:
- Display the most appropriate website to different types of user
- Allow you to login to our transactional secure sites
These cookies cannot be turned off individually but you can change your browser setting to refuse all cookies if you do not wish to accept them. However, without these cookies, certain services and some functionality of our website will not be accessible.
Here are examples of 'strictly necessary' cookies that are used on our site:
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies are used to measure browsing activity, in order to learn about how you use our website. For example, which pages you go to most frequently, how you link to our site and whether you have any issues or error messages from web pages.
These cookies do not collect information that directly identifies you. Any information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We only use this information to improve how our website works and to provide you with a better online experience.
Performance cookies are used to:
- Measure the performance of our website and collect information on how you use it in order for us to provide you with the best possible online service
- Help us improve our website by measuring any errors you may experience
- Help us test different designs on our website in order to improve your online experience
If you would like to opt out of these cookies follow the links below:
Functionality cookies
Functional cookies allow us to remember certain selection or preferences you have made in order for us to tailor our website to you. Some Functionality cookies may also be considered strictly necessary for the functioning of our site.
Functional cookies are used to:
- Remembering if you have previously accepted terms and conditions to prevent repetitive pop-up messages or disclaimers.
- Share information with partners to provide a service on our website. The information shared is only to be used to provide the service, product or function and not for any other purpose
Here are examples of cookies that we have defined as 'Functionality':
Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties – where this is the case you can follow the below links and manage their service directly.
You can view their privacy policies or opt out of these services if you want from the links below.
You can control whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may mean we can't offer you some services or promotions. It is also possible that preventing these cookies stops us remembering that you didn't want a specific service.
Vantage may also embed video content from websites, such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. We do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should use the links above to check the relevant third party website for more information.
How to control your cookie settings
You can change the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer.
These links explain how you can control cookies via your browser - remember that if you turn off cookies in your browser then these settings apply to all websites not just our website:
By clicking on this link you will be leaving our website and entering an external website. We are not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Retention Period
Except for strictly necessary cookies, all cookies will expire and we will not be retained for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which they were collected.