1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to "remember" your actions or preferences over time.
Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.
2. OUR COOKIES
In order to operate this website, we may use cookies to help you navigate our site more efficiently and to identify returning users.
Types of cookies:
- Necessary
- Statistical
- Marketing
3. THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Our website may contain links to other websites and third party social media icons. When you click on a third party website and/or third party social network icon that takes you to that website or social network website, you will be presented with third party cookies from that relevant website.
Our website uses the following third party cookies:
Name | Origin | Purpose | Expiry | Link to Third Parties Cookies Policy |
---|---|---|---|---|
CookieConsent | Page source line number 421 | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. | Per session | https://www.civicuk.com/privacy |
__cfduid | webserver | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic | 1 year | https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/privacypolicy/ |
_ga | Page source line number 19 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
_ga_# | Page source line number 19 | 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 | 2 years | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
_gat | Page source line number 19 | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 day | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
_gid | Page source line number 19 | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site | 1 day | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage |
_fbp | Script tag, page source line number 126 | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement pro ducts such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
3 months | https://developers.facebook.com/docs/privacy/ |
_hjIncludedInSample | Script tag, page source line number 143 | Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. | Per session | https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy |
fr | Script tag, page source line number 126 | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
3 months | https://developers.facebook.com/docs/privacy/ |
tr | Script tag, page source line number 126 | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
Per session | https://developers.facebook.com/docs/privacy/ |
muc_ads | Script tag, page source line number 520 | Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. | 1 Year | https://twitter.com/en/privacy |
guest_id_marketing | Script tag, page source line number 520 | Twitter sets this cookie to identify and track the website visitor. | 1 Year | https://twitter.com/en/privacy |
guest_id_ads | Script tag, page source line number 520 | Twitter sets this cookie to identify and track the website visitor. | 1 Year | https://twitter.com/en/privacy |
personalization_id | Script tag, page source line number 520 | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. | 1 Year | https://twitter.com/en/privacy |
guest_id | Script tag, page source line number 520 | Twitter sets this cookie to identify and track the website visitor. It registers if a user is signed in to the Twitter platform and collects information about ad preferences. | 1 Year | https://twitter.com/en/privacy |
vuid | Iframe, page source line number 396 | Collects data on the user's visits to the web site, such as which pages have been read | 2 years | https://vimeo.com/privacy |
aka_debug | Page source line number 247 | Used by Vimeo to track u age of their embedded video player | Per session | https://vimeo.com/privacy |
__cf_bm | Page source line number 247 | Used to distinguish between humans and bots in order to make valid reports on the use of the website. | 1 Day | https://vimeo.com/privacy |
4. HOW CAN YOU CONTROL COOKIES?
Your browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. You can delete cookies (or disable future cookies) from your hard drive at any time. You will be able to use this website even if your browser is not set to accept cookies.
The following website contains comprehensive information on how to control cookies on a large selection of the leading desktop browsers: https://www.aboutcookies.org/
Please note that if you do not accept our cookies, you may not be able to use all functionalities of your browser software or our website.
5. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY
We will post any updated cookies policy on this page.
This policy was last reviewed and updated in July 2019.