Cookie Policy

On this website (www.halofinancial.com and on our secure site secure.www.halofinancial.com) we use a limited number of cookies to improve your experience of the site and to help us provide you with a better website. Our website uses ten cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to ientify ways to improve the site.

The cookies we use are ‘analytical’ and ‘functional’ cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to the site and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need as easily as possible. Read more about the individual cookies we use and how to recognise them in the table below.

We never create a cookie that will personally identify you or that will contain personal information about you. We only use cookies to help improve the service we provide to you and to facilitate our working relationship with a carefully selected few affiliate partners.

The following is a list of cookies this site might attempt to store on your computer and the purpose of each:

Name of cookie Reason for cookie and how we use it What it is?
__utma * This is an analytical cookie. This cookie is set by a tool called Google Analytics. We use this 3rd party tool to help us with our advertising campaigns and monitoring the use of our site. The recorded information is anonymous and we cannot identify you by the information located inside the cookie or by the information made available for us through the Google Analytics dashboards. You may find more information about Google Analytics at: www.google.com/analytics. Records data like the following: 198425270.3.10. 1338216427
__utmb * This is an analytical cookie. This cookie is set by a tool called Google Analytics. We use this 3rd party tool to help us with our advertising campaigns and monitoring the use of our site. The recorded information is anonymous and we cannot identify you by the information located inside the cookie or by the information made available for us through the Google Analytics dashboards. You may find more information about Google Analytics at: www.google.com/analytics. Records data like the following: 198425270.3.10. 1338216427
__utmc * This is an analytical cookie. This cookie is set by a tool called Google Analytics. We use this 3rd party tool to help us with our advertising campaigns and monitoring the use of our site. The recorded information is anonymous and we cannot identify you by the information located inside the cookie or by the information made available for us through the Google Analytics dashboards. You may find more information about Google Analytics at: www.google.com/analytics. Records data like the following: 198425270.3.10. 1338216427
__utmz * This is an analytical cookie. This cookie is set by a tool called Google Analytics. We use this 3rd party tool to help us with our advertising campaigns and monitoring the use of our site. The recorded information is anonymous and we cannot identify you by the information located inside the cookie or by the information made available for us through the Google Analytics dashboards. You may find more information about Google Analytics at: www.google.com/analytics. Records data like the following: 198425270. 1338216427.1.1. utmcsr=(direct) |utmccn=(direct) |utmcmd=(none)
_dan_ses Current session timestamp, pages viewed, and time on site Set to understand the basic website engagement quality of online advertising driven traffic sources, such as pages viewed, and time on site.
_dan_uid Anonymous randomly generated user id in cookie only, along with the count sessions to the website. Set to understand the the number of users to the website, and the count of sessions for returning users for online advertising driven traffic sources.
calltracksData* Holds information about the source of the visitor (e.g. Google or Bing), the Pay Per Click advert that the visitor clicked on (if applicable), and which phone numbers have been displayed to the visitor. For more information or to reject or delete this cookie visit: www.calltracks.com/privacy/ Holds information about the source of the visitor.
calltracksGuid* Calltracks user identifier. Used only within this site, for uniquely identifying the visitor between page views. For more information or to reject or delete this cookie visit: www.calltracks.com/privacy/ Uniquely identifying the visitor between page views.
Google Remarketing Cookie * This is an analytical cookie. This cookie is set by a tool provided by a third party marketing agency who work with Google. These cookies collect several pieces of information about your browsing habits. They are usually placed by advertising networks. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as media publishers. These organisations do this in order to provide you with targeted adverts more relevant to you and your interests. This type of advertising is called online behavioural advertising and those companies providing this advertising are working with the UK’s Internet Advertising Bureau to deliver more information to consumers. For more information or to reject or delete this cookie visit: www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/ Records what pages you have visited on our website.
Halo_AA_ID This is a functional cookie. If you choose to apply for our affiliate partner account online, we will write a cookie to your computer that identifies your application process uniquely until you complete the application wizard or for no more than 14 days from the day you started. We use the information in this cookie to help you to temporarily step away from the application wizard and then return to it at a later stage and pick up where you left off. The cookie does not store any information about you it only stores the identification of your part-completed application in an encrypted format. The first step of the wizard asks you if you are happy for us to create this cookie which you have to opt-in for each time you start a new online application with us. This is an encrypted piece of information and for security reasons we do not reveal an example here.
Halo_CA_ID This is a functional cookie. If you choose to apply for our corporate client account online, we will write a cookie to your computer that identifies your application process uniquely until you complete the application wizard or for no more than 14 days from the day you started. We use the information in this cookie to help you to temporarily step away from the application wizard and then return to it at a later stage and pick up where you left off. The cookie does not store any information about you it only stores the identification of your part-completed application in an encrypted format. The first step of the wizard asks you if you are happy for us to create this cookie which you have to opt-in for each time you start a new online application with us. This is an encrypted piece of information and for security reasons we do not reveal an example here.
Halo_CPLC This is a functional cookie. We create this cookie once the cookie policy notification has been acknowledged. Word ‘yes’ letting us know that you have read the policy notification and stayed on the site (meaning acceptance of our cookie policy).
Halo_PA_ID This is a functional cookie. If you choose to apply for our private client account online, we will write a cookie to your computer that identifies your application process uniquely until you complete the application wizard or for no more than 14 days from the day you started. We use the information in this cookie to help you to temporarily step away from the application wizard and then return to it at a later stage and pick up where you left off. The cookie does not store any information about you it only stores the identification of your part-completed application in an encrypted format. The first step of the wizard asks you if you are happy for us to create this cookie which you have to opt-in for each time you start a new online application with us. This is an encrypted piece of information and for security reasons we do not reveal an example here.
Halo_ST This is a functional cookie. We use a cookie to track the website you have arrived from. This helps us report back to our affiliate partners about the advertising banners we placed on their sites. From this cookie we cannot tell who you are. We will only use this cookie if you subsequently apply for any of our services via the website and we include the contents of this cookie with your application to tell us how you heard about Halo Financial. The name of the website you have arrived from, e.g. www.google.com if you found us using the Google search engine.
Halo_Tracking This is an analytical cookie. When you visit our website the first time, we record some information about your environment in our secure database. This information includes the internet browser type and version you are using, the link ID that you may have arrived from (e.g. a marketing banner placed on another site), the page you are landing on at www.halofinancial.com, the page you have arrived from (if applicable) and if you are visiting us from a promotional address where we have offered you discounts or other benefits. This cookie contains a unique ID number of the collected information which cannot be used to personally identify you. We use this unique ID number to apply discounts if you subsequently sign up for any of our services. We use the collected information to improve our site for example to help visitors find what they need easier. We also monitor which browsers our visitors use most and help identify our online marketing campaigns’ success. A short unique number, e.g.: 123456
HF_101 This is a functional cookie. If you choose to use our online services and logon to our Halo Online site for post-trade and online dealing purposes then you will be presented with an option on the logon screen to preserve your username. Similar to how internet banking sites let you save your username. The first step of the logon screen asks you if you are happy for us to create this cookie which you have to opt-in for if you are. Your online user name is stored in this cookie. For security reasons we do not reveal an example here.
HF_103 This is a functional cookie. We use this cookie to provide you with more relevant pages/information on our website. Numeric value (either 0, 1 or 2)

* Halo Financial is not responsible for the setting of these cookies. Where example data has been provided these are for guidance purposes only and may change without notice and/or without Halo Financial’s knowledge.

To read and find out more about cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

To read and find out more information about the UK regulations regarding cookies please visit: New EU cookie law (e-Privacy Directive)