About cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

• used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
• strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First and third party cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

List of cookies used

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

Name of Cookie	Essential or Non-essential?	Type of cookie	First or Third party?	Session or Persistent?	Expiry Time	Purpose
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Non-essential	Functional	Third Party	Persistent	179 days	Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
CAN_SId	Non-essential	Functional	First party	Session	End of browser session	This is the Session Identification cookie. This holds a unique (32-character) reference which allows Canddi to relate all the current tracking to a single Session.
_CAN_BId	Non-essential	Functional	Third party	Persistent	10 years	This is the User Identification cookie. This holds a unique (32-character) reference which identifies this visitor each time that they return to your site. This cookie is set on sites using the Canddi software.
SIDCC	Non-essential	Functional	Third party	Session	End of browser session	Security cookie to protect user’s data from unauthorised access.
__utmt	Non-essential	Functional	Third party	Session	End of browser session	Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.
bcookie	Non-essential	Functional	Third party	Persistent	1 year	Used by LinkedIn for social integration including share buttons and ad tags.
_gat	Non-essential	Functional	First party	Session	End of browser session	Used by Google to throttle the request rate.
_ga	Non-essential	Analytical	First party	Persistent	2 years	To distinguish website visitors.
_gid	Non-essential	Analytical	First party	Session	End of browser session	Generates statistical data on how a visitor uses the website.
CAN_qs_tabmin	Non-essential	Analytical	First party	Session	End of browser session	This records the current state of the Canddi capture pop-up window.
__utma	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as w ell as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
__utmb	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Session	End of browser session	Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a web site visit.
__utmc	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Session	End of browser session	Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a web site visit.
__utmz	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	6 months	Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.
SID	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps.
APISID	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps.
HSID	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps.
SSID	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps.
SAPISID	Non-essential	Analytical	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Used by Google to store user preferences and information of Google maps.
GPS	Non-Essential	Analytical	Third Party	Session	End of browser session	Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
YSC	Non-Essential	Analytical	Third Party	Session	End of browser session	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
lidc	Non-Essential	Analytical	Third Party	Session	End of browser session	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
NID	Non-essential	Advertising	Third party	Persistent	6 months	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
personalization_id	Non-essential	Advertising	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Twitter cookie used for ad personalisation purposes.
guest_id	Non-essential	Advertising	Third party	Persistent	2 years	Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visit to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, with the purpose of personalising and improving the Twitter service.

Non-essential cookies

We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:

• Functional cookies
• Analytical (or performance) cookies
• Targeting (or advertising) cookies

Functional cookies

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

• two first party cookies used by Canddi for user and session Identification. These hold a unique (32-character) reference which identifies this visitor each time that they return to your site, as well as allowing Canddi to relate all the current tracking to a single session. These cookies are the session cookie CAN_SId, and the persistent cookie _CAN_Bid which expires after 10 years.
• a first party session cookie used to help Google Analytics manage the number of users on our website. This cookie is called _gat
• a third-party session cookie used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. This cookie is called __utmt
• a third-party session cookie used as a security cookie to protect user’s data from unauthorised access. This cookie is called SIDCC
• a third-party persistent cookie used by LinkedIn for social integration including share buttons and ad tags. This cookie is called bcookie and expires after 1 year.
• a third-party persistent cookie to improve the loading time and functionality of videos on our website. This cookie is: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE. This cookie expires after 179 days.

How to opt in or out from functional cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing and enhancing the website’s functionality.

Analytical (or performance) cookies

Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:

• Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on and your location (based on your IP address). The Google Analytics cookies used on our website are: _ga and __utma which are persistent cookies and expire after 2 years, __utmz which is a persistent cookie and expires after 6 months and _gid, __utmb and __utmc which are session cookies. We also use the Google Analytics cookies _gat and __utmt, which are explained in more detail in the ‘functional cookies’ section above.
• Google also sets several cookies on any page that includes a Google Map or CAPTCHA image. These cookies are used by Google to generate images for maps or to generate CAPTCHA images to help protect our site from spambots. These cookies are: SID, APISID, HSID, SSID and SAPISID, which are all third-party persistent cookies that expire after 2 years.
• Our online service, Canddi, tracks existing customers and groups of customers who visit our website. We use a number of Canddi cookies, including a third-party session cookie used to record the current state of the Canddi capture pop-up window, called CAN_qs_tabmin. These cookies are set on sites using the Canddi software, which provides the capacity to identify individuals visiting a site in real time, linked up directly with personal data held about the visitor, to improve sales conversion rates. These cookies contain a unique identifier for each visitor, enabling consistent tracking between visits. We also use the functional Canddi cookies, CAN_SId and _CAN_Bid. More information on the Canddi functional cookies that we use are available above, under the heading ‘functional cookies’ above.
• YouTube cookies to track when you watch YouTube videos on websites across the internet. These generate statistics on the videos you watch such as how many videos you watch and for how long. These session cookies are: GPS and YSC.
• a third-party session cookie used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. This cookie is called lidc

More information

Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Canddi cookies are classified as both first party and third-party cookies, although Canddi processes information from our use of their cookies. To find out more about how Canddi handles information collected from its cookies, see Canddi’s privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.canddi.com/privacy/

For YouTube’s (Google’s) privacy policy, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

How to opt in or out from analytical cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.bbxuk.com/privacy-policy

Targeting (or advertising) cookies

Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes. We use the targeting cookies for the following purposes on our website:

• a third party persistent cookie used by Google’s AdSense network which registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device which is used to target advertisements to the user. This cookie is called NID and expires after 6 months.
• a third party Twitter persistent cookie used for ad personalisation purposes. This cookie is personalization_id and expires after 2 years.
• a third party persistent cookie which collects anonymous data related to the user’s visit to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and which pages have been loaded, with the purpose of personalising and improving the Twitter service. This cookie is guest_id and expires after 2 years.

For further information on Google’s advertising cookies, please see their cookies policy here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

How to opt in or out from advertising cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using advertising cookies by accepting the use of such cookies via our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies, including profiling and automated decision-making please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.bbxuk.com/privacy-policy

Facebook Pixel

We use Facebook Pixel on our website. Facebook Pixel is a tracking code which allows us to track and monitor the success of advertisements we use on Facebook and to improve the effectiveness of those advertisements by recording information such as the device you used to access our website and the actions you took on our website using cookies. We may also use Facebook Pixel to create retargeting advertisements and custom audiences for our advertisements on Facebook and on our website.

Facebook aggregates data gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel on our website with data it gathers from other sources, in order to improve and target advertisements displayed on its website or via its services, to improve its systems and to provide measurement services to third parties which use Facebook’s advertising services. You can find out more about how Facebook handles information they collect about you and other individuals by accessing their privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using Facebook Pixel turning on marketing cookies using our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel, including profiling please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.bbxuk.com/privacy-policy

Twitter Pixel

We use a Twitter Pixel on our website to track conversions for our Twitter advertising campaigns and to monitor the success of those campaigns.

You can find out more about the information collected by Twitter via the following links: https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads and https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using Twitter Pixel turning on marketing cookies using our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of Twitter Pixel, including profiling please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.bbxuk.com/privacy-policy

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.

You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org

Accepting or rejecting cookies

Cookie control tool

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool.

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
• Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042?locale=en_US

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third-party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

Existing cookies

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Adsettings

You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:

• unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
• switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).

Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

Facebook and Twitter Pixel

You can block Facebook and Twitter Pixel using our cookie control tool.

European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool

You can opt out of Facebook, Twitter and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Twitter (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.

Copyright

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