What’s a cookie?
- A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
- Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time 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 essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
- We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards to how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and/or services in response to what you might need or want.
- Cookies are either:
– Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
– Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
- Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
– Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
– Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
– Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
– 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.
– First and third-party cookies: First-party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third-party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third-party cookies on our website and these are set out in the table below.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
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Cookie Name |
Expiry |
Category |
Purpose |
Provider |
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CookieConsent |
1 year |
Necessary |
Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain |
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hu-session |
Session |
Necessary |
Determines whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. |
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__cfruid |
Session |
Necessary |
This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare – Including load-balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators. |
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OptanonConsent |
1 year |
Necessary |
Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. |
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test_cookie |
1 day |
Necessary |
Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
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JOTFORM_SESSION |
29 days |
Necessary |
Preserves users states across page requests. |
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theme |
29 days |
Necessary |
Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly. |
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_abck |
1 year |
Necessary |
Used to detect and defend against replay-cookie-attacks – The cookie is necessary for the security and integrity of the website. |
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bm_sz |
1 day |
Necessary |
Used in context with the website’s BotManager. The BotManager detects, categorizes and compiles reports on potential bots trying to access the website. |
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m |
2 years |
Necessary |
Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly. |
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ak_bmsc |
1 day |
Necessary |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
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bm_sv |
1 day |
Necessary |
Used in context with the website’s BotManager. The BotManager detects, categorizes and compiles reports on potential bots trying to access the website. |
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__cf_bm |
1 day |
Necessary |
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
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wpcom_highlander_3pc_check |
Session |
Necessary |
This cookie determines whether the browser accepts cookies. |
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_calendly_session |
21 days |
Preferences |
If consent is given by the visitor, this cookie allows the website to add events into the visitor’s calendar. |
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loglevel |
Persistent |
Preferences |
Maintains settings and outputs when using the Developer Tools Console on current session. |
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wistia-video-progress-# |
Persistent |
Preferences |
Contains a timestamp for the website’s video-content. This allows the user to resume watching without having to start over, if the user leaves the video or website. |
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_at.hist.# |
Persistent |
Statistics |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user’s usage history of the AddThis sharing widget |
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_ga |
2 years |
Statistics |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
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_ga_# |
2 years |
Statistics |
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. |
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_gat |
1 day |
Statistics |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
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_gid |
1 day |
Statistics |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
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|
undefined |
Persistent |
Statistics |
Collects data on visitor interaction with the website’s video-content. This data is used to make the website’s video-content more relevant towards the visitor. |
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wistia |
Persistent |
Statistics |
Used by the website to track the visitor’s use of video-content – The cookie roots from Wistia, which provides video-software to websites. |
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|
guest |
29 days |
Statistics |
Registers data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. |
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bt2 |
255 days |
Marketing |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to keep a record of parts of the site that has been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site |
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di2 |
1 year |
Marketing |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to keep a record of parts of the site that has been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site |
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loc |
1 year |
Marketing |
Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). |
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mus |
1 year |
Marketing |
Sets an ID-string for the specific visitor. This is used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry. This allows the website to register the visitor’s behaviour and facilitate the social media sharing function provided by Addthis.com. |
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na_id |
1 year |
Marketing |
Used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry. This allows the website to register the visitor’s behaviour and facilitate the social sharing function provided by Addthis.com. |
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ouid |
1 year |
Marketing |
Sets an ID-string for the specific visitor. This is used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry. This allows the website to register the visitor’s behaviour and facilitate the social media sharing function provided by Addthis.com. |
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uid |
1 year |
Marketing |
Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. AddThis, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, uses the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. |
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|
um |
1 year |
Marketing |
Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. |
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|
uvc |
1 year |
Marketing |
Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user. |
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|
vc |
1 year |
Marketing |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
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xtc |
1 year |
Marketing |
Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. |
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|
uuid2 |
3 months |
Marketing |
Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
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|
__atuvc |
1 year |
Marketing |
Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features. |
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|
__atuvs |
1 day |
Marketing |
Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis. |
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|
_at.cww |
Persistent |
Marketing |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
|
|
_fbp |
3 months |
Marketing |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
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|
at-lojson-cache-# |
Persistent |
Marketing |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
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at-rand |
Persistent |
Marketing |
Used by the social sharing platform AddThis |
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bkdc |
179 days |
Marketing |
Registers user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
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bkpa |
179 days |
Marketing |
Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
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|
bku |
179 days |
Marketing |
Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. |
|
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demdex |
179 days |
Marketing |
Via a unique ID that is used for semantic content analysis, the user’s navigation on the website is registered and linked to offline data from surveys and similar registrations to display targeted ads. |
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dpm |
179 days |
Marketing |
Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
|
|
IDE |
1 year |
Marketing |
Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
|
|
fr |
3 months |
Marketing |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
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|
tr |
Session |
Marketing |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
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|
pt |
2 years |
Marketing |
Used to track the visitor across multiple devices including TV. This is done in order to re-target the visitor through multiple channels. |
|
|
userReferer |
29 days |
Marketing |
Determines how the user accessed the website. This information is used by the website operator in order to measure the efficiency of their marketing. |
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|
uuid |
1 year |
Marketing |
Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads. |
|
|
_mcid |
1 year |
Marketing |
This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance. |
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_ssuma |
29 days |
Marketing |
Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
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|
ssi |
1 year |
Marketing |
Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
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sync-his |
1 year |
Marketing |
Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. |
|
|
tidal_ttid |
1 year |
Marketing |
Registers the ads provided by Videology that the user has seen and/or clicked. Used to generate a demographic profile of the user. |
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|
uid |
179 days |
Marketing |
Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. |
|
|
matchaddthis |
29 days |
Marketing |
Presents the user with relevant content and advertisement. The service is provided by third-party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
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|
wfivefivec |
13 months |
Marketing |
Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads. |
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