Exertis Ltd Cookie Policy
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are simple text files that a site saves to your computer or mobile device using your website browser. Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to 'remember' you, either for the duration of your visit (using a 'session cookie') or for repeat visits (using a 'persistent cookie').
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn't use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site - for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won't recognise you and it won't be able to keep you logged in.
HOW DOES EXERTIS USE COOKIES?
Cookies enable us to identify your device, or you when you have logged in. We use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features. We use cookies to enhance the functionality of the website. We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our website in order to provide you with a better user experience. Ticking the 'stay connected' box will use a cookie to keep you logged in. If you do not tick the box, that cookie is not used.
HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?
Different browsers have different ways of allowing you to enable or delete cookies, or limit the kinds of cookies that can be placed on your computer. When choosing your browser (ie, Google Chrome or Safari), you may want to consider which best suits your privacy preferences.
If you don't want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. However, if you disable cookies you may limit your browsing experience, but most browsers' settings will allow you to block third-party cookies without also disabling our first-party cookies.
You may wish to visit some of the following links which contain comprehensive information about cookies and how you can manage your settings on a wide variety of desktop browsers.
aboutcookies.org
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| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga_MKK2GHS5MY | This cookie is a cookie used by Google Analytics to store data related to a user's website visit. | Performance | 729 days |
| _ga | This cookie is associated with Google Universal Analytics and 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 site's analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customizable by website owners. | Targeting | 1 year |
| _ga_V1VQCPSY6V | 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. | >Performance | 729 days |
| _ga_HDM6BN56JZ | 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. | Performance | 729 days |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | ASP.Net_SessionId is a Microsoft cookie which is used to identify the users session on the server. The session is an area on the server which can be used to store data in between HTTP requests. ASP.NET_SessionId is created by the webserver when the session starts so in the next requests, the Request Header has that ASP.NET_SessionId and it is the same as the Response Header. This ASP.NET_SessionId will be used to identify the specific user session and ensures that this request is from the same client that created the previous request. | Strictly Necessary | End of session |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly Necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALB | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This cookie is used to introduce stickiness across the session. Used to map the session to the instance. When the load balancer (the server) first receives a request from a client, it routes the request to a target, generating this encrypted cookie that encodes information about the selected target, and includes it in the response to the client. Also, it registers which server cluster is serving the visitor, and this is used in context with load balancing to optimize the user experience. | Strictly Necessary | 7 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS and is for Weighted Target Groups associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. With CORS requests, some browsers require SameSite=None; Secure to enable stickiness. In this case, the elastic load balancer generates a second stickiness cookie, AWSALBCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie, AWSALBTG, plus the SameSite attribute. Clients receive both cookies in response. | Strictly Necessary | 7 days |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, and it is used to throttle the request rate-limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Performance | 1 minute |
| AWSALBTG | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: The ASWALBTG cookie is a load balancer-generated cookie for Weighted Target Groups. It is used to honor sticky sessions and enable target group stickiness. When the load balancer first routes a request to a weighted target group, it generates an encrypted cookie named AWSALBTG that encodes information about the selected target group and includes the cookie in the response to the client. When the load balancer receives a request from the same client that matches a rule with target group stickiness enabled and contains the cookie, the request is routed to the target group specified in the cookie. | Strictly Necessary | 7 days |
| _gat_newTracker | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics and is placed by Investis Digital's Sitecore platform on which this website is built. It is used to throttle the request rate-limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. This is further used in rate-limiting on logging to Insights GA. | Performance | 1 minute |
| __CookieConsent | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | Strictly necessary | 90 days |
| __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | Strictly necessary | A few seconds |
| _gid | A Google Universal Analytics cookie as of Spring 2017, store and update a unique value for each page visited. It stores information of how visitors use a website by allocating unique IDs but in an anonymous form, and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | Functionality | 1 day |
| _ga_6FDDRGJVLC | This cookie is a cookie used by Google Analytics to store data related to a user's website visit. | Performance | 729 days |
| _gat_INVDSitecore | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics and is placed by Investis Digital's Sitecore platform on which this website is built. It is used to throttle the request rate-limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Performance | 1 minute |
| ANID | If you have personalized ads enabled, ANID is used to remember this setting. It lists ads on Google sites based on recent searches. Also, if you have disabled personalized ads, ANID is used to store that setting. | Targeting | 720 days |
| AEC | This cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites | Targeting | 6 months |
| 1P_JAR | The cookie is used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. | Targeting | 30 days |