Protecting our customer information is of utmost importance to The Plan Group. For this reason, any cookies used on our sites will not contain personally identifiable information about you. Although cookies are used on our websites to enable us to make your visits as efficient as possible.

Benefits to the user experience of Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites or sometimes by emails. Cookies provide useful data to companies and help in a number of ways. As a user of our website, it makes your time on the site more efficient by not having to re-enter certain details each time you frequent the site. Cookies ensure that you receive the most appropriate information from Plan Insurance. We use cookies as part of our analysis as to the ways our visitors interact with The Plan Group sites and they serve to highlight where improvements might be needed.

Three types of cookies are implemented on our websites:

Not all of these cookies are essential and some are non-essential.

Essential Cookies

Some cookies are required in order for you to use our websites. These are used ‘in-session’ each time you visit and expire when you leave the site. They’re not stored on your computer and they don’t contain any personal data. However, you can delete them via your browser if you wish to, but this will restrict the functions that you’re able to carry out on our sites. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the About Cookies website.

Essential cookies and how they are used on the Plan Insurance sites

Non-essential cookies

These cookies are usually supplied by our business partners and are used for analytical purposes to make sure that they only display information that’s interesting and relevant to you. The following list of sites that place non-essential cookies on our site is made up entirely of social networking sites that we post on; Twitter, Facebook and Google+, These cookies enable you to easily bookmark or recommend selected pages.

Accepting and blocking cookies

Your browser settings will offer you the option to block any cookies from any website. For further information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the about cookies website. For users of shared computers accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users of the computer in question.

Flash cookies

These cookies make it quicker and easier for you to access sites on subsequent visits that use Flash technology. Deleting them means you may have to re-enter information each time you visit the same site. But just like any cookie, you can delete Flash cookies by going to the Settings Manager for your Adobe Flash Player. You will be taken to the Adobe website, which lists the websites with the cookies in your browser. Just click Delete opposite the relevant website.

Cookies we use on our website

Domain Cookie name Cookie description
doubleclick.net IDE This cookie from Google DoubleClick is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts.
Google.co.uk 1P_JAR These cookies are used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates.
Google.co.uk Consent Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain.
Google.co.uk NID The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
Google.com 1P_JAR This cookie is used by Google to gather website statistics and track conversion rates.
Google.com Consent Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
Google.com NID The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
theplangroup.co.uk _dc_gtm This cookie is for Google Tag Manager.
theplangroup.co.uk _ga This cookie is used by Google to distinguish users.
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theplangroup.co.uk _hjIncludedInSample Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample.
theplangroup.co.uk gacid  This cookie is used by Google to distinguish users.

Learn more

You’ll find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org, which gives details on how to delete cookies from your computer. For information on how to do this on your mobile phone browser, please see your handset manual.

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