Cookie Policy
Our Cookie Policy is a part of our Privacy Policy.
We use cookies to improve the performance of our lending platform and give you the best possible user experience. Our Cookie Policy explains:
- what cookies are
- what types we use
- why we use them and
- how to identify or disable them
You can manage your cookie settings here
Please note that our platform is custom-designed to provide visitors with the best experience - deleting cookies or disabling their use may therefore result in reduced functionality.
- What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are stored on your device (computer, mobile or tablet for example) when you visit a website. The cookies we use can't harm your computer and we don't ever store personally identifiable information such as your name, address or bank details in the cookies we create, but we do use encrypted information gathered from them to help improve your experience on the website. For example, cookies make it easier for you to maintain your preferences on the website. Cookies are used by almost all websites today and can be generated by certain actions on a site, like a page view or a button click, allowing website providers to better tailor their platform's response to you as an individual. Cookies serve many functions but in general our cookies are used to:
- Correctly, speedily and efficiently load our webpage
- Protect our customers and ourselves from fraud
- Identify errors or poor performance of the site
- Communicate with our customers using online chat
- Authenticate and recognise users while they are on our site
- Understand our customers' behaviour when they take a loan
- And understand our customers in order to serve them more interesting and relevant marketing
Cookies can be 'first party', meaning they are created by us or 'third party', meaning that they are created by Lendable's trusted partners in order for us to use their services to improve our performance. Where cookies are third party, please refer to their specific policies for more details.
Cookies can be 'session-only' meaning they last only for the period of time you are browsing, or 'persistent' meaning that they remain in your internet browser for a longer period of time.
You can disable the cookies from your browser and delete all cookies currently stored on your device. Cookie settings are set separately for each different device, and if you want to change your settings you will need to do so for each device.
If you do so, you will still be able to browse the site but you will not be able to use all of the features. Most web browsers have cookies enabled by default setting.
- What cookies do we use?
1. Strictly Necessary cookies
Some cookies are essential to deliver our service. Among other things, these cookies allow us to:
- detect and protect you from fraud
- remember your product choices while you browse
- securely process payments
These cookies don't record any information about you that could be used for marketing or gather any historical recording of where you have been on the internet.
Our Strictly Necessary cookies look like this:
Cookie Provider Cookie Domain Cookie Names Description Lendable lendable.co.uk session, lifetime, PHPSESSID Login and Authentication Lendable lendable.co.uk cookie-settings Managing cookie settings Stripe lendable.co.uk _stripe_sid, _stripe_mid, cid Facilitating secure payment Stripe stripe.com https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal Facilitating secure payment NewRelic nr-data.net JSESSIONID Managing login sessions by preserving user states across page requests 2. Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies collect information about how our site behaves and allow us to deliver a high-quality service to customers. Among other things, these cookies allow us to manage activity on our website.
These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is used to help us improve your experience. The information recorded by these cookies cannot be used for tracking customers.
Our Analytics cookies look like this:
Cookie Provider Cookie Domain Cookie Names Description Google Analytics lendable.co.uk ga, gat, gid On-site tracking of activity on our lending platform e.g. Understanding which website pages and user devices are most popular 3. Performance cookies
We use performance cookies for internal purposes to help us provide you with a better user experience and catch website bugs.
These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is used to help us improve your experience. The information recorded by these cookies cannot be used for tracking customers.
Our Performance cookies look like this:
Cookie Provider Cookie Domain Cookie Names Description Inspectlet inspectlet.com, lendable.co.uk _cfduid, _insp_* Website performance monitoring 4. Marketing cookies
'Marketing' cookies collect information of activity on our website and our visitors' preferences.
Our Marketing cookies look like this:
Cookie Provider Cookie Domain Cookie Names Description TVSquared lendable.co.uk TV-8172812727-1 Analytics cookie to measure the performance of TV advertisement Adalyser lendable.co.uk _adal_ca, _adal_cw, _adal_id Analytics cookie to measure the performance of TV advertisement Meta lendable.co.uk _fbp Analytics cookie to measure the performance of Meta advertisments TikTok lendable.co.uk _ttp, _tt_enable_cookie Analytics cookie to measure the performance of TikTok advertisments - Are all our website cookies our own?
Some of the cookies are set by Lendable (first party) and others are built by trusted providers (third parties). Where we use third party cookies and you want to find more detailed information, please visit their respective websites. Below is a list of these third party cookies that range across the Necessary, Operational and Marketing categories detailed previously.
Third Party Purpose Classification New Relic Monitoring and recording the performance our website Strictly Necessary Inspectlet Monitoring website use Performance Stripe Facilitating secure payment Strictly Necessary Google Analytics On-site tracking of activity on our lending platform e.g. Understanding which website pages are most popular Analytics - Website recording
Lendable uses web Inspectlet analytics services, which may record mouse clicks, mouse movements, scrolling activity as well as selected non-personal text you type in the website. This is not used to collect any personally identifiable information entered into the website.
Third Party Purpose Classification Inspectlet Monitoring website use Performance - How can you stop cookies?
You can manage your cookie settings for our site here
If you want to restrict or fully block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser, usually in their settings menu. The help function within your browser should help you understand how to do this as it is slightly different for every browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari etc.).
Please be aware that some of our services will not function as smoothly if your browser disables all cookies. You can create exceptions and allow cookies from specific websites only by making them "trusted websites" in your browser. We recommend you make Lendable a trusted website in order to get the best service level our platform can provide.
You may wish to visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie for more information on cookies or https://www.aboutcookies.org/ for a guide on controlling cookies.