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Our Sites may use “cookies” and similar technologies. Cookies are small bits of information that are stored in separate files within your computer’s Internet browser. Cookies store information about your activities on a Site or other platform. For example, cookies can store your session information for easy sign-in to a website or other platform you have previously visited. Cookies are used for the operation of our Sites, help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of Sites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of certain aspects of the Site. By continuing to use our Site, you consent to our use of Cookies.
Description of Cookies and Related Technologies
We (and third party partners or vendors) may use technologies that communicate Information from your Internet browser to a web server. Such technologies may be embedded in web pages, videos, or emails, and can allow a web server to read certain types of information from your browser, check whether you have viewed a particular web page or email message, and determine, among other things, the time and date on which you viewed the information, the IP address of your computer, and the URL of the web page from which the information was viewed. We, and certain third parties that we engage to provide services may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, or similar technologies to perform this activity. They may also obtain information about applications you use, websites you visit, and other information from across your devices and browsers in order to help serve advertising that may be more relevant to your interests on and off our Sites and across your devices and browsers.
Cookies can either be persistent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser). Check your browser settings to learn how to delete cookies. You can configure your Internet browser to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or to refuse cookies completely. However, unless you accept cookies, your access to the site may be limited and certain functions of a Site may be inoperable.
Like other sites, we also gather some Information automatically and store it in log files. This Information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We treat Information collected by cookies and these other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we may also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. Some of our Sites may use locally stored objects to provide certain content. Adobe’s Flash player and similar applications use this technology to remember settings, preferences, and usage similar to browser cookies. Flash cookies are not managed through your web browser, but you can access Flash management tools from Adobe’s website. Your browser may also offer other tools to delete or reject other locally stored objects.
Some of our sites may use Google Analytics to analyze traffic. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. To opt-out of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Sites, you can download and install the Browser Plugin available via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Cookies Used on this Site
Certain cookies that we use on this Site, and the purposes for which these cookies are used, are provided below. Please note that additional cookies may be added, and we may update or remove the cookies below. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools:
Further Information
For further information regarding cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.aboutcookies.org, or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie, or www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/all_about_cookies, or www.whatarecookies.com, or cookiecontroller.com/what-are-cookies, or cookiepedia.co.uk.
First party cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Session / Persistent | Length of Storage |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress_test_cookie | WordPress cookie to test if cookies are in use | Session | n/a |
| wp-settings- | WordPress cookie used to customise certain features on the Website | Session | n/a |
| wp-settings-time- | WordPress cookie used to customise certain features on the Website | Session | n/a |
| PHPSESSID | Allows us to track the current User’s session ID | Session | n/a |
| _session_id | To help identify a specific user | Session | n/a |
| session_last_active_at | To track if a user can be given cached content | Session | n/a |
| _csrf_token | Token to stop cross-site request forgery | Session | n/a |
| user_id | To help identify a specific user who has ticked ‘Remember me’ | Persistent | Two weeks |
| ahoy_visit, ahoy_visitor | To help identify a specific user across multiple devices. We use the ahoy library for this. | Persistent | Four hours (visit) / two years (visitor) |
| vanity_id | To help identify a visitor for the purposes of A/B testing. We use the vanity library for this. | Persistent | 1 month |
| traffic_source | If a visitor has come to site from a promotional campaign, this records campaign details we can measure the effectiveness of campaigns. | Persistent | 30 days |
| browser_prompt | If a browser is unsupported, we may display a warning banner. This cookie records if a user has dismissed this banner. | Persistent | One week |
| fl-video-player-subtitles_enabled | This cookie is used to record user subtitle preference and persist this choice across pages with embedded videos. | Persistent | Until cookie is purged. |
Third party cookies
| Service | Purpose | Cookie detail |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Website usage statistics | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
| Hotjar | Website usage statistics | We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link. |
Date
This Cookie Policy was last updated on April 01, 2019