Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Website Privacy Policy (https://www.independentaudit.com/privacy) which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
This website is operated by Independent Audit Limited a company registered in England and Wales under company registration number 04373559. Our registered office is at One Glass Wharf, Bristol, BS2 0ZX.
We are Board Evaluation and Board Governance Consultants, for more information about us, please see https://www.independentaudit.com/our-story
This cookie policy relates to your use of our website, www.independentaudit.com only.
Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these other third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These allow us to recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Consent to use cookies and changing settings
We will ask for your permission (Consent) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to use our check-out process if and when this functionality becomes available).
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by using our cookies dashboard when this appears during your first visit and/or preferences visiting the “cookies” page on our site (independentaudit.com/cookies), accessible from the footer on all pages, or during your first visit. You can then update and manage your preferences as appropriate. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect.
Strictly necessary:
Our website is currently hosted by Fasthosts Internet Limited. Fasthosts uses some necessary cookies to allow visitors to navigate and use key features on the website.
Analytics:
Fasthosts also has built-in integration to connect our website to Google Analytics. This is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc which uses cookies to show us how visitors found and explored our site, and how we can enhance their experience. It provides us with information about the behaviour of our visitors (e.g. how users interact with our Site, the average number of pages viewed) and also tells us how many visitors we have had.
Marketing:
These cookies are used to track website visitors and contacts, plus deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They remember that you have visited a website and quite often they will be linked to site functionality.
How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.
Please contact Richard Sheath our Data Protection Officer, if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact Richard Sheath, our Data Protection Officer, please send an email to info@independentaudit.com or write to 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN or call +44 (0)20 7796 8660.
If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).
This policy was published on 22 March 2021 and last updated on 22 March 2021.
We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time, when we do we will inform our client