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Cookie Policy

Last updated: 10 March 2025

Summary: We use a small number of cookies — essential ones to make the site work, and optional analytics cookies to help us improve it. We ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to website operators about how their site is used.

Cookies are not programs and cannot access other data stored on your device. They are generally safe and are a standard part of how most websites function.

Related technologies that work in a similar way include local storage, session storage, and pixel tags. This policy covers all such technologies where relevant.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • To operate essential site functions, such as remembering your cookie consent preference
  • To collect anonymised analytics data to understand how visitors use our site, so we can improve it
  • To maintain the security and integrity of the site

We do not use cookies for advertising, tracking across third-party websites, or building user profiles.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function. Without them, certain features of the site cannot operate. They do not require your consent under applicable law.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our site — which pages are visited most, how long visitors stay, and where they arrive from. This helps us improve our content and user experience. Analytics data is collected in anonymised or aggregated form and is not used to identify individual users. These cookies require your consent before they are placed.

Preference Cookies

These cookies remember choices you have made on our site to provide a more personalised experience. For example, they may remember that you have dismissed our cookie consent notice. They require your consent.

Cookie Name Type Purpose Duration
cookieConsent Essential Stores your cookie consent preference (accepted or declined) to prevent the consent banner from appearing on every page visit. 13 months
_ga Analytics Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish unique users. Used only if analytics consent is granted. IP addresses are anonymised. 2 years
_ga_* Analytics Google Analytics session cookie used to maintain session state across page loads. Only active with analytics consent. 2 years
_gid Analytics Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. Expires after 24 hours. Only active with analytics consent. 24 hours

5. Third-Party Cookies

If you consent to analytics cookies, Google Analytics may set cookies from the google-analytics.com domain. These cookies are governed by Google's own privacy policy, which can be found at policies.google.com/privacy.

We have enabled IP anonymisation in our analytics implementation so that your full IP address is not stored or processed by Google.

We do not use any other third-party cookies, tracking scripts, or advertising technologies.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences in several ways:

Through Our Consent Banner

When you first visit finstabils.com, you will see a cookie consent banner. You can use the buttons on this banner to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Your preference is saved and the banner will not appear on subsequent visits.

Through Your Browser

All modern web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only certain types, or delete existing cookies. Please be aware that blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of some websites.

For guidance on how to manage cookies in your specific browser, see the following resources:

Google Analytics Opt-Out

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

By accepting cookies via our consent banner, you agree to the placement of non-essential analytics and preference cookies as described in this policy. You can withdraw your consent at any time by clearing cookies in your browser or by refreshing the page and declining when the consent banner reappears.

Essential cookies do not require consent as they are necessary for the website to function.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. We will indicate the date of the most recent revision at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

9. Contact

If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

For broader privacy enquiries, please see our Privacy Policy.