cookie policy
COOKIE POLICY
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
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. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| _qca | _qca | Uses IP address, pixel code, referring HTTP location, current HTTP location, search string, time of the access, browser’s time and any searches made on the website | |
| _ga | _ga | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports | |
| _gat | _gat | Used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/display-features |
| _gat_ukcn | _gat_ukcn | Used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net. | |
| _gid | _gid | Used to distinguish users | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/cookie-usage |
| km_ai / km_lv | km_ai / km_lv | Used to provide information about how visitors use the site | https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/km_ai |
| _cfduid | _cfduid | Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. | https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-Cloudflare-cfduid-cookie-do- |
| datr | datr | Used to collect statistical information on the behavior of a browser on sites | http://www.adweek.com/digital/datr-cookie-belgium/ |
| fr | fr | Used for advertising purposes | https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/fb_tracking/ |
| mc | mc | Used for advertising and may track your behaviour on the website | https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/website/privacy/third-party-cookies |
| NID | NID | Used to remember users preferences and other information, such as your preferred language etc | https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/ |
| JSESSIONID | JSESSIONID | Used in session tracking | https://www.tutorialspoint.com/listtutorial/What-is-JSESSIONID-Cookie-in-J2EE-web-applications/4214 |
| optimizelyBuckets | optimizelyBuckets | Used to store the page variants assigned to a user for A/B performance testing, to ensure the user gets a consistent experience | https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/optimizelyBuckets |
| optimizelyEndUserId | optimizelyEndUserId | Used for unique user identifier | https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/optimizelyEndUserId |
| optimizelySegments | optimizelySegments | It holds audience segmentation information for a visitor | |
| __RequestVerificationToken | __RequestVerificationToken | Anti Forgery token | |
| X-Mapping-fjhppofk | X-Mapping-fjhppofk | Used to route data and page requests to the correct server where a site is hosted on multiple servers. | https://cookiepedia.co.uk/cookies/X-Mapping-fjhppofk |
| _biz_flagsA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_uid | _biz_flagsA, _biz_pendingA, _biz_uid | Used for perfomace tracking | http://hq.vevo.com/cookie-policy/?lang=gb |
| pcc | pcc | Used to store promocode from campaign email | https://www.nnit.com/about-us/Pages/cookies.aspx |
| d_pc | d_pc | Used to store customer details | |
| TwitterItems | TwitterItems | ||
| ScvSession | ScvSession | Used in session tracking |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
