Last Updated: 5 Nisan 2024
Version Number: 1.0
With cookies we can give you a better browsing experience, improve the quality of our services, and keep our marketing costs down.
Below, we’ve explained how and why we use cookies, and what each of them do. We’ve broken them down into three groups:
Strictly necessary cookies. We need these cookies to run our website — your cookie preferences are saved and this helps keep the site secure. They’re always on.
Analytics. These let us use tools that show us how you interact with our products and improve our services. They help us find and fix problems for our customers, and they’re also known as analytical or performance cookies.
Advertising. Cookies that keep our marketing costs down. These cookies improve our marketing and keep our marketing costs down. We share this information in aggregate form with third parties, for the purpose of advertising.
You can see each cookie we use and our reasons for using them below.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Session or Persistent | Lifespan | Privacy information |
| STRICTLY NECESSARY (ESSENTIAL) COOKIES | |||||
CookieConsent | Cookiebot | To store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | Persistent | 1 year | https://www.cookiebot.com/en/privacy-policy/ |
| rc::a | To distinguish between humans and bots. | Persistent | – | google.com | |
| rc::b | To distinguish between humans and bots. | Session | N/A | google.com | |
__cf_bm | Cloudflare | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Persistent | 1 day | cloudflare.com |
| Youtube | To detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. | Persistent | 2 years | youtube.com | |
| NON-ESSENTIAL COOKIES | |||||
| ANALYTICS | |||||
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Persistent | 2 years | https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 | |
_ga_# | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | Persistent | 2 years | https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 | |
_gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | Persistent | 1 day | https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 | |
_gid | Used by Google Analytics to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Persistent | 1 day | https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 | |
| gid | Used by Google Analytics to store and count pageviews. | Persistent | 1 year | https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 | |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | HotJar | To detect the first pageview session of a user. | Persistent | 1 day | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjFirstSeen | HotJar | To identify a new user’s first session. | Persistent | 1 day | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | HotJar | To determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by our site’s pageview limit. | Persistent | 1 day | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | HotJar | To determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by our site’s daily session limit. | Persistent | 1 day | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | HotJar | Used to store performed actions on the website. | Session | N/A | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjSession_# | HotJar | To provide functions across pages for hotjar | Persistent | 1 day | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjSessionUser_# | HotJar | To store a unique user ID. | Session | N/A | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjTLDTest | HotJar | Used to enable us to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname, so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). | Session | N/A | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| hjViewportId | HotJar | Used to store user viewport details such as size and dimensions. | Session | N/A | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| _hjRecordingEnabled | HotJar | Used to read when the Recording module is initialised to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. | Session | N/A | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
| Affiliate links | Impact, Partnerize, Awin | Used for statistics purposes i.e. to track users referred from our website to our partners, for analytical purposes. | https://impact.com/privacy-policy/ https://partnerize.com/legal/privacy-statement https://www.awin.com/us/privacy | ||
| fr_last_loaded_page | Trackonomics | Used to provide information on the first page the user landed on in the site session. | Session | N/A | https://trackonomics.net/ |
fr_referrer_trace | Trackonomics | Used to provide information on which site the user arrived from. | Session | N/A | https://trackonomics.net/ |
| ADVERTISING | |||||
| _gcl_au | Google Adsense | This links Google advertisements to conversions made on our site. This cookie is also used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertising efficiency across websites using their service. | Persistent | 3 months | |
| Google AdWords | Google’s advertising services which may include remarketing, re-engagement or similar audience features in Google Ads that would allow us to reach people who previously visited our website, and match the right people with the right message. Google may display ads about our website or our services when you are browsing other websites. In providing these services Google may collect certain information about our website visitors. | – | https://policies.google.com/privacy | ||
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used by YouTube to decide on your bandwidth, with the purpose of serving the optimal player interface | Persistent | 179 days | youtube.com | |
| DEVICE_INFO | Used to track user interaction with embedded content. | 179 days | youtube.com | ||
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | Session | google.com | ||
| YSC | Used to store information about your session. | Session | N/A | youtube.com | |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Used to store information about the video to be shown after the current video. | – | – | youtube.com | |
| yt.innertube::requests | Used to record a unique ID to keep statistics on which YouTube videos the user has watched. | – | – | youtube.com | |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using an embedded YouTube video. | – | – | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. | Session | N/A | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Used to log the user’s video player preferences when watching embedded YouTube videos. | Session | N/A | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Used to log the user’s video player preferences when watching YouTube videos. | Persistent | – | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-device-id | Used to store the user’s video playback preferences for embedded YouTube videos. | Persistent | – | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Used to log the user’s video player preferences when watching embedded YouTube videos. | Session | N/A | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-session-app | Used to log the user’s video player preferences when watching YouTube videos. | Session | N/A | youtube.com | |
| yt-remote-session-name | Used to log the user’s video player preferences when watching embedded YouTube videos. | Session | N/A | youtube.com | |
| _fbp | Used to obtain encrypted data about visitors and users of our website for the purposes of measuring advertising effectiveness, showing relevant advertising to certain groups of users and excluding other groups of users from seeing irrelevant advertising. | Persistent | 3 months | https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy.php | |
_rdt_uuid | Used to identify users who’ve seen the ads of the website on Reddit so that we can run our ads more efficiently. | Persistent | 6 months | https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy-september-12-2021 | |
| SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES | |||||
| Youtube Integrations | Youtube is used to embed videos on our website. In providing this service Google may collect certain information about our website visitors. | – | – | https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=uk | |
| Facebook Integrations | Facebook button is used on our website in order to link users to our Facebook profile. Facebook’s advertising services may also be used. In providing these services Facebook may collect certain information about our website visitors. | – | – | https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/implementation/gdpr/ | |
| Instagram Integrations | Instagram button is used on our website in order to link users to our Instagram profile. Instagram may collect certain information about our website visitors. | – | – | https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 | |
| Twitter integrations | Twitter button is used on our website in order to link users to our Twitter profile. Twitter may collect certain information about our website visitors. | – | – | https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/privacy | |
How to control cookies
- If you want to opt-out of having your site activity available to Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. More information can be found here https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881 .
- You can also manage the cookies preferences by activating the settings on your browser. For more information you can visit the help pages below.
| Web Browser (provider) | Help page |
| Chrome web browser (Google) | https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 |
| Safari (Apple) | https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265 |
| Internet Explorer (Microsoft) | https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d |
| Firefox (Mozilla) | https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox |
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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has provided the following guidance on controlling cookies:
- A number of websites provide detailed information on cookies, including AboutCookies.org and AllAboutCookies.org.
- The European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website Your Online Choices allows you to install opt-out cookies across different advertising networks. Google has developed a browser add-on to allow users to opt-out of Google Analytics across all websites which use it. This is also available in the Chrome web store.
- Some browsers include a feature known as ‘Do Not Track’ (“DNT”). This allows you to indicate a preference that websites should not track you. However, whilst DNT is available in many browsers, websites are not required to recognise its request, so it may not always work. You can get help on how to use DNT in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.
- For more information on how private browsing works as well as its limitations, visit the support pages for your browser: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (IOS mobile and desktop) and Opera.
If you have any questions about the cookies or similar technologies in use on our website, please send an email to the address stated in the Privacy Policy.