Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website, and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Cookie: Cookie Preference

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Purpose: This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.

Cookie: Universal Analytics (Google)

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Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website and WordPress blog. The information is used to compile reports and to help us to improve the website.

The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Cookie: Security breach notification form cookie

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Purpose: This cookie is essential for the breach notification form – the form that public electronic communications service providers use to notify the Information Commissioner’s Office of a security breach – to operate. It is set only for those people using the form. This cookie is deleted when a visitor closes our browser.

Our website might use analytics services provided by Google Analytics. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how our website is used. This, in turn, enables us to improve our website and the services offered through it.

Third parties and their respective Cookies:

Mailchimp- Is used to email our customers about our company- the data would be managed by a marketing team.

Xero- Financial system that links with Bunk;

Go Cardless- Direct debit payment system enables your customers to pay.

Consent and Control

Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a prompt requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling us to provide the best possible experience and service to you.

You can of course deny consent to the placing of Cookies unless those Cookies are strictly necessary, however, if cookies are not allowed then certain features of our website may not function fully or as intended.

In addition to the controls that we provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable a visitor to choose whether they wish to disable all Cookies or only third-party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies.

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.

Choices about cookies

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):

Strictly necessary cookies    ALWAYS ACTIVE

Analytical or performance cookies    OFF/ON

Functionality cookies    OFF/ON

Targeting cookies    OFF/ON 

You can also choose to “Reject All” cookies in the cookie banner.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

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If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at onboarding@northernpayments.org.uk                            ].