Cookie Policy

How Fair Investment Company Limited uses cookies

The Cookies We Set

To provide you with the best experience we can, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page which is affected by your preferences. When you visit our website, we track the following.

This helps us identify how well our website is working:

• Anonymous (not personally identifiable) information about you including your IP address, the ID of a cookie we set, information about the device you are using, including information about the operating system and browser. We use this information to bundle the data we receive from you into a complete picture of the actions you’ve taken on our website.

• Which pages on our website you visit, and how long you spend on each.

• Any actions you take on a page, for example what buttons you click or forms you fill in.

• Where you fill in a webform, we record the details that you leave. Note that this will only include personal identifiable information like your name or email address if you explicitly share these with us through a webform. We will use this information to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of our website. Any personal identifiable information recorded will never be shared with third parties.

Third party cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site. We use Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how the site is used and ways that we can improve the user experience. These cookies may track things such as how long users spend on the site and the pages visited so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long users spend on the site or pages visited which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you. From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most. Third party cookies allow us to understand how many visitors to the site apply for or take out an account via the site, for example following an apply click.

This allows us to accurately make business predictions so we can manage the site’s activities.

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately, where applicable allow our affiliate partners to pay us any remuneration following you making a purchase, or for them to identify you as a Simplysavingsaccounts.co.uk customer if you return to their site. 

Other sites

This Privacy and Cookie Policy applies to Fair Investment Company Limited only. We do not exercise control over third party sites displayed when you have clicked through from within our charts, results pages, via a ‘Go to Site’, ‘See Deal’ from advertising displayed on our site or from one of our chosen third parties. These third party sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or collect personal information from you.

Your rights

Please note, you have the right to opt-out of the use of cookies however some functions of the site will not work correctly. You can do this for example on Internet Explorer by clicking “tools”, go to “Internet Options”, go to the “Privacy” tab and select “Block” for “first party cookies” and then “Block” again for “third party cookies” and un-check “always allow session cookies”.

You can find out more information on cookies by visiting www.aboutcookies.org