Cookie Policy and Settings
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from our webpage and stored in your web browser, mobile phone or other device while you are using our websites. It helps the page recognise your device the next time you visit, provides you with access to certain functions and understands your website journey. Cookies are very common web technology and most websites use them. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting for our advertising and marketing efforts.
There are two types of cookies;
Session cookies – which are deleted when you close your browser; and
Persistent cookies – which stay in your browser’s sub folders until you delete them or they expire.
Why do we collect cookies?
Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users on our website. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and also allows us to make improvements to our site.
How you can manage our cookies
If you decide to ‘accept’ cookies from the banner displayed when first landing on our site, we will use all of those listed in the below tables; however, if you select ‘deny’ we will only use those you have agreed to. If you decide to ‘deny’ cookies we will only use strictly necessary cookies which are required to make the website function properly.
You have control over these cookies and can change the ones used at any time by using the toggle in the below table.
You can also set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. You can find more information about cookies generally at: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu
There are four different groups of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies
These are essential and without them you would not be able to use our website as expected. For example they allow a user to navigate back and forth between pages without losing their previous actions from the same session.
On| What they do | Type of cookie | Cookie name |
|---|---|---|
| These Cookies are used to remember the users Cookie choice on oxfordinnovationfinance.co.uk | Persistent | cookie-agreed cookie-on-analy cookie-agreed-version cookie-on-func |
| These Cookies are used to return visitors to the page they came from once Cookie preferences have been saved. | Session | page-return page-return-1 |
| Set by a third party, Drupal (the content management system), to track a users session which will maintain the users state across page requests. | Persistent | SESSxxxxx |
| Set when the EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) Fund form is submitted to remember the form submission. | Persistent | terms-accepted webform-cookie |
