At Confused.com we use cookies to remember you when you return to our site, and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and our website.
What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages.
A cookie is sent to your computer the first time you visit a site. The next time you visit that site, your computer checks to see ID card - it tells the website you've returned. The site then 'knows' that you have been there before.
Cookies aren't programs and they can't harm your computer. Typically, they only contain two pieces of information: a site name and unique user ID. You can read them using the Notebook program on your own computer.
What do cookies actually do?
Cookies make the interaction between users and websites smoother.
Websites use cookies mainly because they make the browsing experience more efficient. Without cookies, it would be very difficult for a website to allow a visitor to fill up a shopping cart or to remember your preferences or registration details for a future visits.
Websites also use cookies to collect demographic information about their users. Cookies enable websites to monitor their users' web surfing habits and profile them for marketing purposes (for example, to find out which products or services they are interested in and send them the most targeted advertisements).
Cookies on Confused.com
At Confused.com we use cookies to remember you when you return to our site, and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and our website.
You can use Confused.com without enabling cookies, but as some of our cookies enable the website to work better you might find that you have problems logging in and using the site if you disable cookies. You also won't be able to see some of our content.
Our cookies don't store sensitive or personally identifiable information such as your name, address or credit card details: they simply hold the 'key' that, once you're signed in, is associated with this information. We do use encrypted information gathered from them to help improve your experience of the site. For example, they help us to identify and resolve errors, or to determine relevant related content to show you when you're researching on the site.
We're giving you this information as part of our initiative to comply with recent legislation, and to make sure we're honest and clear about your privacy when using our website. We know you'd expect nothing less from us, and please be assured that we're working on a number of other privacy and cookie-related improvements to the website.
Below is a list of the main cookies we use, and what we use them for.
Essential cookies
These are cookies that are enabled for all our customers to ensure that our website works properly.
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ASP.NET_SessionId, ASPXAUTH, FedAuth, FedAuth1
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These cookie allows our web servers to respond to your actions on the website such as logging in or running a car insurance quote. The website wouldn't work for you without them.
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Remember-me
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This cookie allows us to remember your preferences. For example, saving you the trouble of typing in your username every time you access the site.
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Google Analytics (_utma _utmb _utmc _utmz)
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These cookie allows us to collect anonymous information about how visitors are using our website including where they drop-off and which device/browser they came from.
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Pluck cookies (AT, Sitelife host, anonId)
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We use this to allow you interact with, and comment on, our published content.
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Maxymiser (mmcore.pd, mmcore.srv, mmcore.tst)
Visual Website Optimiser (_vis)
Sharethis
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These cookies allow us to serve and test different versions of web pages to different users and tracks user behaviours from these tests.
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Tealeaf (TLSID, TLTHID, TLTUID)
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These cookies are used by our customer support team to help customers through the different product quote processes.
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Google Adwords, TradeDoubler, Double-click, eDialog, OMG, Marinism.com
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These 3rd party cookies show us how you found our website and which website you came from. This helps us know which of our online marketing channels is most effective. They also allow us to reward some external websites for directing you to us.
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X-UniqueCustomerSessionID
X-UniqueCustomerCookieID
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These cookies allow us to see that two separate visits to Confused.com were made by the same person.
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Non-essential cookies
We use these cookies for online marketing purposes, the website works without them but we can’t improve our online marketing effectiveness without them. These cookies can be disabled if you don't want to use them.
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Cookie purpose
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Criteo
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These 3rd party cookies let us serve personalised adverts to you when you’re browsing other websites e.g. reminding you of your car insurance quote prices.
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Confused.com social and 'share' tools
If you 'share' Confused.com content with friends through social networks – such as Facebook and Twitter - you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don't control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the 3rd party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
