What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small computer file which is downloaded to your computer's hard drive when you visit a website. Cookies are harmless files which can help improve the experience. Cookies allow websites to respond to you as an individual. The website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Hearingaidcompare.net use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Hearingaidcompare.net does work with third parties in providing you services through our website and they may set a cookie on your computer as part of this journey. For example, we use these cookies to provide relevant advertising to users of our site and other sites. We also use these to limit what marketing or advertising is delivered to our customers.

Most cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser; these are known as session cookies. Others, known as persistent cookies, are stored on your computer either until you delete them or they expire. For example, the cookie used to keep you signed in to your account expires after 13 months. Every time you visit Hearingaidcompare.net, you will be kept signed in for a further 13 months. By using this Service, you consent to us using cookies.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and could prevent you from completing some purchases through our site.

Hearingaidcompare.net Cookie Policy

In order to gain the best possible experience of using Hearingaidcompare.net, we recommend that you enable cookies in your web browser. By refusing cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of our comparison form.

The cookies we use do not contain any sensitive information such as your full name, postal address or any payment details. Sensitive information which you choose to provide to us as part of the quotation process is stored securely and is not collected in the form of a cookie. Only information which is relevant to your visit to Hearingaidcompare.net is stored in the form of a cookie, for example if you have visited our site previously, we are able to know you have run a quote previously so can deliver appropriate pages relevant to previous journey.

We use the cookies in the following ways:

Required – Hearingaidcompare.net has a set of cookies which are critical to the functionality of the site. They are used to keep a user logged in to the site and to remember previous quotation when returning to our site.

Functional - Hearingaidcompare.net uses a set of cookies to help us track the users on the site and helps us understand how customers are using our site. These cookies are only used to help improve our site experience. We drop these on their first visit to the page and then use them to track the user through the site, where they go, where they drop off, what pages they have problems with etc.

Marketing - Hearingaidcompare.net uses a set of third party providers to help provide customised advertising and experiences to the users. We use these cookies to provide relevant advertising to users of our site and other sites. We also use these to limit what marketing or advertising is delivered to our customers. For example, if you have already completed your energy quote, we will no longer show any advertising related to this quote.