This Cookie Policy applies to the website https://groundswellgrowth.com/ (“Site”) operated by Groundswell Growth Limited, trading at 13 Edward Street, Belfast, BT1 2LR.

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are how and why we use them when you visit our Site. This policy must be read together with our Privacy Policy.

What is a cookie

A ‘cookie’ is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. When you visit a site that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer/mobile device so that the next time you visit that site, your device will remember useful information such as visited pages.

The cookie is set either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier.

Cookies may be set by the Site you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites or services (‘third-party cookies’).

Cookies can also be categorized as follows:

• Strictly necessary cookies – these help the function of the website and help you navigate around the Site.
• Functionality cookies – these cookies remember choices users make and improve a user’s experience of the Site.
• Performance cookies – these cookies monitor user behaviour on our Site to help us improve our Site.
• Advertising cookies – these cookies collect information about browsing habits in order to deliver personalized online advertising.

What we use cookies for

• For marketing purposes for example, to serve personalized email content to our mailing list
• To enable the Site to ‘remember’ you so your interaction with the Site is faster and easier
• To monitor the pages you visit on the Site, so we can analyse and improve the Site and your customer journey.

By using the Site www.groundswellgrowth.com you consent to us placing cookies on your computer.

How can I control my cookies

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.

If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.

Please note that if you disable the use of cookies on this Site some functionality such as navigation may not work as intended.

Cookies which this Site uses

The following first party cookies are set by us:

Google Analytics

Name: _ga, _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, _utmv, _atuvc

Origin: Google Inc.

Type: Performance, Persistent

Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

More information: Click here for an overview of privacy at Google, Click here for Google’s privacy policy.