Cookie Policy

Last updated: March 31, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to UK SECURITY POLL (“us”, “we”, or “our”). This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons, pixels, and tags) when you visit our website at http://uksecuritypoll.uk (the “Website” or “Service”). This policy explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.

By using our Service, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to the use of these technologies, please disable them following the instructions in this policy (see section 5) or refrain from using our Website.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information.

2. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognize your device and remember information about your visit, such as your preferences or login information.

Cookies can be categorized as follows:

• First-party cookies: These are set directly by the website you are visiting (us).
• Third-party cookies: These are set by a domain other than the one you are visiting, usually when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins, or advertising.
• Session cookies: These are temporary and expire once you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies: These remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. They are used to remember your preferences for future visits.

Similar technologies like web beacons (or "pixels", "tags") are small graphic files that contain a unique identifier, enabling us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. These allow us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns.

3. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use cookies and similar technologies for various purposes, including:

• Essential Operations: To enable the basic functioning of our Website, such as navigating pages and accessing secure areas. The Website cannot function properly without these cookies.
• Performance and Functionality: To enhance the performance and functionality of our Website. For example, remembering your preferences or choices (like language or region) so you don’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. These are non-essential, but without them, certain features might become unavailable.
• Analytics and Customization: To understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us analyze traffic, identify popular pages, understand user demographics, and improve our Service.
• Advertising and Targeting: To make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

4. Types of Cookies We Use

Below is a more detailed explanation of the types of cookies we may use on our Website:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for you to browse the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services like user account logins or session management cannot be provided.

• Purpose: User authentication, session management, security.
• Examples: Session ID cookies, authentication cookies.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our Website, like which pages you visit most often, and if you receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Website works.

• Purpose: Analyzing website traffic, load balancing, understanding user interaction flows.
• Examples: Cookies used by analytics platforms in an aggregated way.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

• Purpose: Remembering user preferences and settings.
• Examples: Language preference cookies, accessibility settings cookies.

Analytics Cookies

We use analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, to collect information about your use of the Service. These tools collect information such as how often users visit the Service, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Service. We use the information we get from Analytics Cookies only to improve our Service.

• Provider: Google Analytics
• Purpose: To understand website usage, track user engagement, generate reports on website activity. The information generated is typically anonymized.
• More Information & Opt-Out: You can learn about Google’s practices by going to Google Privacy Policy. You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Advertising/Targeting Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.

• Purpose: Displaying targeted advertising, measuring ad performance, building user profiles.
• Examples: Cookies set by third-party ad platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Facebook Pixel - if used).

5. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have several options to control or limit how we and third parties use cookies:

• Cookie Consent Tool: Where applicable, you may be presented with a cookie banner or tool upon your first visit, allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookie categories.
• Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow control over cookies through their settings. You can typically set your browser to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Apple Safari
  If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
• Opt-Out Links: For third-party analytics and advertising cookies, you can often opt-out directly via their provided mechanisms (like the Google Analytics link above) or through industry opt-out programs:
  • Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
  • Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): http://optout.aboutads.info/
  • European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.

The "Last updated" date at the top indicates when this policy was last revised.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us at:

Email: support@uksecuritypoll.uk