Cookie Notice
Standard Cookie Policy
Information about our use of cookies
1. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us
to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to
improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
2. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard
drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your
computer's hard drive.
3. We use the following cookies:
3.1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our
website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our
website.
3.2. Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of
visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us
to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what
they are looking for easily.
3.3. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website.
This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your
preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
3.4. 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. We may also share this
information with third parties for this purpose.
4. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for
which we use them below:
1 Cookie Purpose: Cookies with suffix _session
Description: used by the Zapnito platform to identify who you are. Assigned when you log in,
this keeps you logged in to the site so you don’t have to constantly re-enter your username
and password. This isn’t set unless you are a registered user. Expiration: when the browsing
session ends.
__utma
Description: Google Analytics cookie, created when the javascript library executes and no
existing __utma cookies exist. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google
Analytics. Expiration: 2 years from set/update Used to distinguish users and sessions.
__utmb
Description: Google Analytics cookie, used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is
created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The
cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration: 30 mins from
set/update.
__utmc
Description: Google Analytics cookie, not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js.
Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine
whether the user was in a new session/visit. Expiration: End of browser session.
__utmz
Description: Google Analytics cookie, stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how
the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is
updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Expiration: 6 months from set/update.
Cookies with gs_u_GSN prefix
Description: GoSquared Analytics cookie, used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is
created when the javascript library executes and no existing gs_u_GSN cookie exists. The
cookie is updated every time data is sent to GoSquared. Expiration: 2 years from set/update.
Used to distinguish users and sessions.
2. Local storage
Description: HTML5 local storage used by the Zapnito platform to store local data to improve
performance of the website to improve the experience of using the site.
5. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of
external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have
no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
6. You block cookies 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 all cookies
(including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
7. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire when the browsing session ends.