Cookies Policy

Cookies on SimplySwitch.com

This policy explains how ME Expert Limited uses cookies on our websites and mobile app (“Our Sites”) and how you can control them.

By accessing the Our Sites on any device, you agree that this Cookie Policy will apply. We reserve the right to vary this Cookie Policy from time to time and such changes shall become effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of the Our Sites constitutes your agreement to all such changes.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer (or other device such as mobile or tablet) by your browser from websites that you visit. They’re used for many things, such as allowing us to remember you and distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good user experience and improve our website by monitoring how people use it.

A cookie will typically store information about your visit to a website. Our cookie will never include any of your personal information, for example they don’t store your name or email address. They do however enable us to recognise your visit, remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our website.

All cookies have an owner. The owner is the domain or website that places the cookies on your device. When you visit Our Sites, cookies may be placed on your device by Us and also by other domains or websites, which are known as third party cookies.

Cookie settings

You can delete cookies from your device by using your browser. However, please be aware that if you delete any cookies, settings previously made for our website will be lost and it may negatively affect your browsing experience.

How to delete cookies

Most internet browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can change the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer.

Our cookies

We store general information about your visit but we do not store your personal information.

The types of cookie that may be used during your visit to Our Sites are:

Essential cookies

Some cookies are essential for the operation of Our Sites. Without these cookies, the services that you are here for cannot be provided. These cookies don’t gather any information about you for marketing or advertising purposes or to remember where you’ve been on the internet.

Cookie Description Duration of Cookie Nature and Purpose of Cookies What will happen if you reject or delete these cookies?
Session management session end These cookies enable us to manage our website response time effectively and provide a better service to you.

These cookies typically expire at the end of your session (i.e. when you leave our website).

We would be unable to manage our website effectively, web pages will be slower to load and website performance would be impaired

Performance cookies

We utilise these cookies to analyse how our visitors use Our Sites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our pages and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular or which page designs users find easiest to use.

Cookie Description Duration of Cookie Nature and Purpose of Cookies What will happen if you reject or delete these cookies?
Cloudflare 1 month Supports security features
Facebook 3 months Facebook advertising tracking We will be unable to accurately track how effective our advertising is.
Internal tracking 1 week To track traffic across the website. We will be unable to analyse user behaviour to improve our services
Inspectelet 1 year Helps us to improve user experience We will be unable to analyse user behaviour to improve our services

About Third party cookies

ME Expert Limited partners may set a cookie on Our Sites to enable them to track and analyse their advertisements.

We sometimes embed video and other content from websites such as YouTube or Google. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded you may be presented with cookies from these websites. ME Expert Limited does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

On some pages we have embedded ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles through a number of popular social networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. Money Expert does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.

More information

The Information Commissioner’s Office Cookie guide can be found on the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-and-similar-technologies/

Last Updated: 01.09.2020