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Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device if you agree. Cookies can contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

What types of cookies does Kindred Health Insurance use?

There are generally four categories of cookies:

Kindred Health Insurance routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.

Performance Cookies

These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, whether you made an edit to an article on the website while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of website tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the website to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve customised the website in other ways, such as customising the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.

Targeting Cookies

These types of cookies are used to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other our website. This information may be shared with third parties, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate website usage statistics and aggregate website testing.

What cookies do we use?

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Name

Title

Purpose

More information

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Google Analytics

Cookies and other technologies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how you interact with a particular service. These insights allow services to both improve content and build better features that enhance your experience.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US

cc_cookie

Cookie Acceptance

Used to determine which cookies can be stored based on user preference.

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Stripe Fraud Prevention

Fraud prevention cookies set by the Stripe payment gateway. Used to learn things about computers and web browsers used to access Stripe Services. This information helps Stripe to monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use of their Services.

https://stripe.com/gb/cookie-settings

sessionid

Session ID

Used to identify a browser session.

csrftoken

Cross Site Request Forgery token

Used to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

Third party cookies

Third-party cookies, over which we have no control, may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Kindred Health Insurance, for example to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies, over which we have no control, may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.

How to control and delete cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our website and other parts of our website may not work properly.

You can find out more information on cookie settings at third-party information sites, such as: