Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files or data records placed on or associated with a browser or device when a website is visited. Cookies can help a website remember information between page views or visits. Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, software development tools, and server logs. In this policy, “cookies” is used as a general term for these technologies where appropriate.

Some cookies last only for the current browsing session and are removed when the browser closes. Others remain for a defined period or until deleted. A cookie may be set by the website being visited or by a service provider that supports the site.

2. Why the website may use cookies

Cookies may be used to deliver pages, maintain security, balance traffic, remember preferences, preserve a user’s choices, support accessibility, diagnose technical problems, measure general site performance, and understand how visitors navigate content. They may also help the website platform prevent fraud, distinguish human activity from automated misuse, or maintain a secure session.

Winbrooke Trust Managing does not use cookies to provide investment management, financial advice, fiduciary services, accounting, legal services, or management of funds or assets. Cookie data is associated with website operation and general business communications.

3. Essential cookies

Essential cookies support functions required for the website to operate as requested. They may be used for security, network management, load balancing, consent preferences, session continuity, form validation, or other core features. Blocking these cookies may prevent parts of the website from functioning correctly.

Because they are used to provide requested functionality or protect the site, essential cookies may operate even when optional analytics or preference cookies are declined, subject to applicable law.

4. Preference cookies

Preference cookies may remember selections such as language, display settings, consent choices, or other non-essential preferences. These cookies can reduce the need to repeat a choice during later visits. If preference cookies are disabled, the website may still function, but some selections may not be remembered.

5. Analytics and performance

Analytics or performance technologies may collect information about page views, navigation paths, approximate region, device and browser characteristics, referring sources, loading performance, and error conditions. Such information can help identify which pages are useful, where visitors encounter difficulty, and whether the website performs properly across devices.

Where possible, analytics should be configured to use limited or aggregated information. Analytics providers may nevertheless process technical identifiers under their own terms. The presence and configuration of analytics may change as website needs and platform features change.

6. Functional and embedded services

A website platform may provide embedded features, media, fonts, security tools, content delivery, or other functionality. A third-party feature may place or read cookies when it is loaded or used. We do not control every browser technology used by an independent provider, and the provider’s own terms may govern its processing.

The website is not intended to include social-media feeds, social-login functions, or public advertising trackers as a necessary part of the requested design. If optional third-party functionality is added later, the cookie notice and consent controls should be reviewed and updated.

7. Project form behavior

The website project form uses browser-side validation to check whether required fields are complete and to display an on-page confirmation. This validation may rely on the current page state but does not, by itself, require a marketing cookie. The form does not open an email application. If a future submission, customer-management, scheduling, or analytics service is connected, that service may use additional technologies and this policy should be reviewed accordingly.

8. Browser and consent controls

Most browsers allow users to view, block, limit, or delete cookies through settings. Some browsers also allow blocking third-party cookies, clearing site data on exit, or sending privacy preference signals. Instructions vary by browser and device. Blocking all cookies may affect security, preferences, embedded content, or other site functionality.

Where a consent banner is presented, visitors can use the available controls to accept or decline categories that are not essential. A consent preference may itself need to be stored so the site remembers the visitor’s choice. Clearing browser data may remove that choice and cause the banner to appear again.

9. Do Not Track and privacy signals

Browsers may offer “Do Not Track” or other signals. Industry practices for interpreting some signals are not uniform. Where a legally recognized opt-out signal applies to a specific processing activity, the website platform or configured consent service may respond according to its technical capability and applicable requirements.

10. Retention

Cookie duration depends on purpose and configuration. Session cookies typically expire when the browsing session ends. Persistent cookies remain for a stated period or until deleted. Server and security logs may be retained separately for troubleshooting, abuse prevention, and operational recordkeeping. We aim to avoid retaining technical information longer than reasonably needed for its purpose.

11. Updates and review

Cookies may change when the website platform, security configuration, analytics settings, or embedded services are updated. This policy may therefore be revised periodically. The date above identifies the version presented on this page. Material additions of new optional tracking categories should be accompanied by an appropriate update to visitor controls where required.

12. Relationship to the Privacy Policy

The Privacy Policy provides broader information about categories of information, purposes, sharing, security, retention, and individual choices. This Cookie Policy supplements that information for browser technologies. If a visitor has a question about technical data connected with them, the visitor may contact us with enough detail to evaluate the request.