Cookies

The short version

The only cookies this site can set are analytics cookies from Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, and only after you press Accept on the bar at the foot of the screen. Until then, and for good if you press Reject, neither tool is loaded and no cookie is set. There is no advertising on this site.

The longer version

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store, usually so it can recognise you on a later visit. Some cookies are strictly necessary for a site to function and can be set without permission. Everything else requires your consent, which in practice is the banner you see on most sites.

This site needs no cookies to work. It is a set of static pages and does not log you in. The analytics cookies below are optional, which is why we ask first.

The cookies, if you accept

• _ga and _ga_BF1RB9816C, Google Analytics: tell one visit from another so pages read and routes to the site can be counted. Up to two years.
• _clck, Microsoft Clarity: recognises a returning browser. Up to one year.
• _clsk, Microsoft Clarity: joins the pages of one visit together. One day.

Clarity runs with strict masking, so page text and anything you type into a form is never recorded. What each tool collects, and how long it is kept, is set out in our privacy notice.

Changing your choice

Use Cookie settings, also linked at the foot of every page, to accept or reject at any time. Rejecting after accepting stops both tools and deletes their cookies. Your answer itself is kept in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie, so the question is not asked on every page; clearing this site's stored data brings it back.

What we do use

• Fonts are served from this website, not from a third-party font service, so no request goes to another company when you load a page.
• The enquiry form sends what you type to our own workflow system when you press submit, and not before. It does not store anything in your browser.
• Server logs are kept by our hosting provider as a normal part of running a website. They include IP addresses and are used for security and diagnostics, not for tracking or profiling.

Links to other websites

Where we link to a broker or lender on our panel, that is a different company's website with its own cookies and its own policy. Once you follow the link, what happens is governed by them.

If this changes

If anything else non-essential is added to this site, this page will be updated first, and nothing non-essential will be set before you agree to it.

Questions

Email enquiries@readscommercialfinance.co.uk. Our privacy notice covers what we do with the details you send us.