Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website can store on your device when you visit. They help websites remember certain information, such as whether a page has been visited before, choices you have made, or details needed for a feature to work properly.

Some cookies are temporary and are removed when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. Similar technologies, such as local storage or tracking pixels, may also be used for specific purposes.

2. Why Cookies May Be Used

Depending on the features enabled on this website, cookies may be used to support the following purposes:

• Essential website functions: helping pages load, maintaining basic site functions and supporting security features.
• Preferences: remembering choices you make so that the website can respond consistently when you return.
• Performance and reliability: helping us understand whether pages are working as expected and identify technical issues.
• Usage measurement: providing information about how visitors use the website, where this type of measurement is enabled and permitted.
• Embedded or third-party features: supporting content or services provided by another company when those features are present.

The cookies actually used depend on the website functions and services currently enabled. We do not assume that every category listed above is active at all times.

3. Essential Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for a website to provide a service you have requested or to operate securely. For example, they may help maintain a session, support form submission, prevent misuse or remember your cookie preferences.

Where a cookie is strictly necessary for the operation of a service you request, it may be used without consent where the law permits. We do not use this category as a reason to place optional analytics or marketing cookies without the required permission.

4. Optional Cookies and Your Choices

Analytics, advertising and other non-essential cookies generally require your consent before they are placed on your device, where applicable law requires it. If we use these technologies, you should be able to accept or reject them through the cookie notice or preference tool provided on the website.

You can choose not to allow optional cookies. The website should remain available, although some non-essential features or embedded content may not work in the same way.

If a cookie banner or preference control is displayed, you can use it to review or change your choices. If the website does not currently provide a preference tool, you can also manage cookies through your browser settings.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Some website features may be supplied by third parties, such as embedded media, website measurement tools, security services or external content. If those features are enabled, the provider may use its own cookies or similar technologies.

Third-party cookies are controlled by the relevant provider, not directly by us. Their use, retention periods and handling of information are governed by that provider’s own policies. We recommend reviewing the provider’s privacy and cookie information before enabling optional third-party features.

We do not claim that any particular third-party cookie is active unless the corresponding service is actually installed and operating on the website.

6. How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device

Cookie duration depends on its purpose and the settings chosen by the website or the relevant provider.

• Session cookies: usually expire when you close your browser.
• Preference cookies: may remain for a limited period so the website can remember your settings.
• Analytics or third-party cookies: where enabled and permitted, may remain for a period set by the relevant service.

We do not assign one universal expiry period to all cookies because different technologies serve different purposes. Where practicable, cookies should be configured to last no longer than reasonably necessary for their intended use.

7. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their settings. The exact steps vary by browser and device, but the controls are usually found in the privacy or security section.

You can generally configure your browser to block all cookies, block cookies from selected websites or remove cookies already stored on your device. If you block all cookies, some website functions may not work as intended, including features that rely on remembering your choices.

Deleting cookies does not always remove information already held by a website or third-party provider. You may also need to revisit the relevant service’s settings to manage information associated with your account.

8. Information Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the technology used, information associated with cookies may include browser type, device information, pages viewed, approximate usage times, referring pages and preferences stored for the website.

Cookies do not necessarily identify you by name. However, information collected through cookies may be treated as personal data where it can identify you directly or indirectly, or where the law otherwise treats it as personal information.

We handle personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection requirements. Information should only be collected and used for a clear purpose and kept for no longer than reasonably necessary for that purpose.

9. Security and Limitations

We take reasonable steps to configure website technologies appropriately and to maintain the website’s general security. However, no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure or uninterrupted.

We cannot control every technical change made by a third-party service or every setting on a visitor’s device. If a third-party feature is unavailable or changes its behaviour, some related functions may be affected.

Nothing in this policy excludes or limits any responsibility or legal right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when website functions change, new technologies are introduced or legal requirements are updated. The current version published on this page explains our approach at the time you visit.

If a change affects how optional cookies are used or how consent is obtained, we will take the steps required by applicable law, which may include asking you to review your preferences again.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about cookies or how information is handled on this website, please contact us using the details below.

NAVITHOUGHTS LTD
9 Kinnaird Way, Woodford Green, Essex, England, IG8 8DD
Email: hi@navithoughtstech.org
Telephone: 020 7012 2691