Cookie Policy
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should
you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies: Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Remembering affiliate ID
- Allowing you to login to client area
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use Google Analytics, an analytical tool which sets cookies to evaluate how many visits we have to our website and to see how users interact with our website content. Google Analytics compile reports for us on our website activity which in turn helps us improve the way our website works to give a better browsing experience. Google Analytics does not collect any personally identifiable information about users of our website. In addition to the cookie information given below, you can learn more about the cookies used by Google Analytics here.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.
Cookies used on our website
| COOKIES | DESCRIPTION | LIFETIME |
|---|---|---|
| affiliate | Used to store a unique identifier of our partner website from which the visitor arrived to our website. | 90 days from set/update |
Cookies set by our partners and other third parties
Google Analytics
| COOKIES | DESCRIPTION | LIFETIME |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to store a unique client identifier (Client ID), which is a randomly generated number. | 2 years from set/update |
| _gat | Used to create and retrieve tracker objects, from which all other methods are invoked. | 10 minutes from set/update |
| _utma | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
| _utmb | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 mins from set/update |
| _utmc | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | End of browser session |
| _utmz | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months from set/update |
| _utmv | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
| __utmt | Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes |
Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
PayPal
Further information can be found about there cookies and how these relate to your privacy options in the table below:
| PAYMENT GATEWAYS | LINK TO FURTHER INFORMATION |
|---|---|
| PayPal | https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/cookie-full |
| cloudflare.com | https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do- |
Cookies set by the Hotjar script
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. | 365 days |
| _hjDonePolls | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. | 365 days |
| _hjDoneTestersWidgets | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days |
| _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. | 365 days |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. | 365 days |
BoxBilling
This website has been built using BoxBilling, which places one ‘session cookie’ on your computer when you arrive on the website:
| COOKIE NAME | WHEN DOES IT EXPIRE? | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| is_returning | 5 years from the date that it was set | This cookie is used for login and comment functions on this site. It is created in order to track whether a visitor is new or returning. A “returning” visitor is one that has previously visited any tracked page on your domain within the last 5 years. |
| _rfrr | 1,000 days from the date that it was set. | This cookie is a persistent cookie used for storing internal reports regarding Google Analytics information. |
| _rfrr_start_time | 1,000 days from the date that it was set. | This cookie is a persistent cookie used for tracking sign up time of the visitor |
| _trk | 90 days from the date that it was set. | This cookie is a persistent cookie in order to track whether a visitor is new or returning. A “returning” visitor is one that has previously visited any tracked page on your domain within the last 90 days. It also tracks personal information about you in order to prefill forms on website. |
| PHPSESSID | session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie end of session/close of browser | This cookie is a session cookie used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie. |
| we-love-cookies | Saturday, January 1, 10000 at 1:59:59 AM | This cookie is used to see that you have accepted our cookie policy. |
Learning more about cookies
To learn more about cookies, and how you can manage the ones saved to your computer, visit All About Cookies.org
