Cookies

Cookies are small text files which are placed on your computer when you access a website – amongst other things; they help the website user to navigate efficiently between pages and the website operator to track usage of the site.

Cookies cannot contain viruses or anything else that might harm your computer. You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Why are cookies used?

Cookies may be used for many different purposes. In the first place, cookies can be required to make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in or visited the website before. These are called required cookies.

Cookies can also be used to analyse how a website is used, to count the number of visitors, to learn how the website may be improved. All tracking data and website usage are stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to individual website visitors. These cookies are called analytics cookies.

Thirdly, social media cookies are used to enable the integration of social media & your data with the platform in question into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page without having to reauthenticate your profile.

A fourth important use of cookies is to enable online advertising, which may be personalized to show ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. This is done by (targeted) advertising cookies.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies to track your activities on our website and to analyse trends and improve our site for our customers. Our cookies will not allow us to obtain information of a personal nature such as your name and address.

This website does not use any social media cookies or advertising cookies.

Unless you have set your browser to block cookies completely, this website will utilise the following cookies on your computer.

Name Type Purpose Expiry Duration
_conv_s Strictly necessary cookies Convert AB testing End of browser session
__RequestVerificationToken Strictly necessary cookies This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. End of browser session
_conv_v Strictly necessary cookies This cookie is the visitor-centric cookie that has a lifetime of max 6 months from the last update time. End of browser session
JSESSIONID Strictly necessary cookies General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. End of browser session
ASP.NET_SessionId Strictly necessary cookies General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. End of browser session
__cf_bm Strictly necessary cookies The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots.This is a CloudFoundry cookie End of browser session
AEC Strictly necessary cookies This cookie name is associated with Google which is used to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. It prevents malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user's knowledge. End of browser session
__CookieConsentV200 Strictly necessary cookies This cookie name is associated with a JavaScript plugin which is used to comply with EU guidelines and alert users of the use of cookies on the website. End of browser session
_cfuvid Strictly necessary cookies The _cfuvid cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. End of browser session
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Strictly necessary cookies This cookie name is associated with YouTube which is used to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain and ensure that user privacy choices are respected when watching embedded YouTube content. End of browser session
_gaexp Performance Cookies Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. End of browser session
_utma Performance Cookies This cookie name _utma is associated with Google Analytics which is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there is no existing _utma cookie. The cookie is updated each time data is sent to Google Analytics. End of browser session
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample Performance Cookies This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. End of browser session
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx Performance Cookies NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. End of browser session
_uetvid Performance Cookies This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. End of browser session
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx Performance Cookies NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. 365 Days
_hjTLDTest Performance Cookies When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. End of browser session
YSC Performance Cookies This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. End of browser session
_ga Performance Cookies This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. 365 Days
_utmc Performance Cookies This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics which is used to calculate the time a user spends on a website by taking timestamps of the exact moment a user enters and leaves the site. End of browser session
_hjid Performance Cookies Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. End of browser session
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress Performance Cookies This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. End of browser session
_gclxxxx Performance Cookies This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store and track conversions.Google conversion tracking cookie End of browser session
_hjIncludedInSessionSample Performance Cookies This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. End of browser session
_conv_r Performance Cookies This cookie name is used to hold the referral data for the current visitor, including source name, referral medium, and referrer search terms. It is overwritten each time the visitor comes from a new referrer. End of browser session
ajs_anonymous_id Functional Cookies These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. This cookie has a lifespan of 1 year. End of browser session
ANID Marketing Cookies This cookie name is associated with advertising, specifically to check if MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising purposes. End of browser session
anj Marketing Cookies This cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner. End of browser session
_gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Marketing Cookies This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.Google Analytics Cookies End of browser session
ajs_group_id Marketing Cookies These cookies track visitor usage and events within the website. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. End of browser session
AWSALB Marketing Cookies AWS ELB application load balancerUsed to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. 6 Days
ajs_user_id Marketing Cookies This cookie helps track visitor usage, events, target marketing, and can also measure application performance and stability. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. End of browser session
AID Marketing Cookies This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics and Google Ads which is used to link your activities on other devices you have previously logged into using your Google account. Based on this, the ads you see on your devices are coordinated and conversion events are measured. End of browser session
AWSALBCORS Marketing Cookies This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. 6 Days
_D9J Marketing Cookies This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. End of browser session
_dlt Marketing Cookies This cookie is associated with Google's real time bidding advertising exchange. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting. End of browser session
aam_uuid Marketing Cookies This cookie is associated with the Adobe Audience Manager ID - Data Management Platform (DMP). It is used to assign a unique ID when a user visits a website. End of browser session
1P_JAR Marketing Cookies This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. End of browser session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Marketing Cookies This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. End of browser session
_fbp Marketing Cookies Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers End of browser session
APISID Marketing Cookies This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. End of browser session
NID Marketing Cookies This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. End of browser session
_lfa Marketing Cookies This cookie is used by Leadfeeder to track visitor behavior on the website to build visitor profiles for improving site analytics and marketing effectiveness. End of browser session

Opt in?

We rely on the basis of explicit consent for our use of cookies. You have the option to refuse to accept analytics cookies each time you visit our website. This rejection only disables tracking of website use & behaviour and has no impact on the performance of the website.

Modern web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Visibility

There are some elements of data visible to us as part of your use of the website. The information we have visibility of regardless of your acceptance of analytics cookies is:

  • The internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider.
  • The type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, UNIX, macOS etc) that you use
  • The device you use, such as a mobile phone or tablet
  • The date and time of your visit
  • The page(s) you visit
  • The address of the website from which you linked to us, known as a referrer (if applicable)

We only use this information above to review website & server performance.

More questions?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at: [email protected]

For more information about the use of personal data within Inchcape plc, please visit our Privacy Policy or contact us at:

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Post: Group Legal Counsel, Inchcape plc, 22a St James’s Square, London, SWY1 5LP