What are cookies?

This website uses cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files placed on your computer, mobile, or handheld device. This includes information about pages viewed and the visitor’s journey around our website.

These cookies help us, they make the website more secure, provide a better user experience, understand how the website performs, and analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

Who sets the cookies?

The cookies stored on your computer or another device when you access this website are set by Lyel Accountants Ltd and our suppliers. They partner with us to help deliver a high-quality website and online experience.

How do we use cookies?

Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. The first-party cookies are primarily necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all, providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What happens if I disable cookies?

This depends on which cookies you disable, but the site may generally not operate properly if cookies are switched off.

What sorts of cookies does Lyel Accountants Ltd use?

ESSENTIAL COOKIES

Essential cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access a website or take specific actions on a website. These cookies are used only to transmit the data online and are strictly necessary to make a website operational. Examples of essential cookies include session cookies that keep users logged in as they navigate the website and persistent cookies that save customised preferences for the users.

SESSION COOKIES

Session cookies are anonymous temporary cookies used to enhance your online experience; they do not store personal information and are not used for tracking or other purposes. Session cookies automatically expire 20 minutes after your visit has ended and are deleted from your device.

ANALYTICS COOKIES

This website uses a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (‘Google’). Cookies collect information about how visitors use our site; they do not contain personal information.

We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site and user experience. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions. These cookies are used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

For more information regarding Google Analytics and your data privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

Opting out of Google Analytics tracking on all websites you visit is possible by installing an add-on to your browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera. The add-on can be downloaded here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How do I disable cookies?

To disable cookies, you must change your website browser settings to reject cookies. However, doing so may mean the loss of certain functionality on this and other websites. How to disable cookies from your device will depend on the browser you use. Here’s how to do it on the most popular Windows PC browsers:

MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER:

1. Choose the menu “Tools” then “Internet Options.”
2. Click on the “Privacy tab.”
3. Select the appropriate setting.

MOZILLA FIREFOX:

1. Choose the menu “Tools” then “Options.”
2. Click on the icon “Privacy.”
3. Find the menu “Cookie” and select the appropriate options.

OPERA 6.0 AND ABOVE:

1. Choose the menu “Files” then “Preferences.”
2. Click Privacy and select one of the available options.
To disable Cookies in any other browser or on an Apple Macintosh device, further information can be found here: http://www.aboutcookies.org/default.aspx?page=1