This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Avaris, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website. This Cookies Policy is effective from 25th May 2018.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
Contents
· About cookies
· List of cookies used
· Essential cookies
· Non-essential cookies
· Web beacons
· How to accept or reject cookies
· Copyright, credit and logo
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 click here.
List of cookies used
Name of Cookie
Essential or Non-essential?
Type of cookie
First or Third party?
Session or Persistent?
Expiry Time
Purpose
_hjClosedSurveyInvites
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.
_hjDonePolls
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjMinimizedPolls
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjDoneTestersWidget
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjMinimizedTestersWidgets
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.
_hjIncludedinSample
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.
cookiebanner-accepted
Non-essential
Preferences
1st party
Persistent
Never
Records cookie bar acceptance
MoneypennyHistory
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Moneypenny Live chat cookie.
MoneypennyVisit
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Session
When the browsing session ends
Moneypenny Live chat cookie.
SLIBeacon
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
2 years
SLI search cookie
SLIBeacon_746980806
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
2 years
SLI search cookie
SLISYNC
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
7 days
SLI search cookie
_cfduid
Essential
Security
1st party
Persistent
1 year
Cloudflare cookie. Strictly necessary for Cloudflare’s security features and cannot be turned off.
_ga
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
2 years
Google Analytics. Universal Analytics. To distinguish users.
_gid
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
24 hours
Google Analytics. Universal Analytics. To distinguish users.
_utma
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
2 years
Google Analytics Cookie. Urchin Tracking Model. To distinguish users.
_utmz
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
6 months
Google Analytics Cookie. Urchin Tracking Model. To identify how users reached the site.
sli_customer_online
Non-essential
Analytical
1st party
Persistent
72 hours
SLI search cookie
templateset
Essential
Preferences
1st party
Session
When the browsing session ends
Sets design template of website
Essential cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:
· templateset – first party session cookies to set the design template of the website.
· _cfduid – first party persistent cookie used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per client basis.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
How to opt out of essential cookies
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.
You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
· Analytical (or performance) cookies
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.
The information we collect using analytical cookies is collected on an anonymised basis.
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.
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please click here.
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.
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.
Other technologies
Web beacons
We (and any marketing companies we use) also embed web beacons in our marketing emails. Web beacons are small GIF image files which enable us to track your receipt of our marketing emails, how often you view our adverts or website pages, your location, IP address and browser information. These web beacons are activated whenever you open a marketing email or access a page on our website which contains a web beacon. You will find that web beacons transmit data when you view them but are not capable of accessing any other information on your computer. It is important to know that web beacons are not stored on your hard drive unless you download a GIF image containing them.
Some (but not all) browsers enable you to restrict the use of web beacons by either preventing them from sending information back to their source (for example, when you choose browser settings that block cookies and trackers), or by not accessing the images containing them (for example, if you select a ‘do not display images (in emails)’ setting in your email server).
How to opt in or out
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest: analysing the effectiveness of our email marketing campaigns. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of web beacons please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our 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. 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 All About Cookies.
Accepting or rejecting cookies
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:
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 Adsettings
You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here and by:
o unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalise ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
o 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.
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.
Web beacons
You can opt in to us using web beacons in our marketing emails by: adjusting your contact preferences in the My Account screen.
You can opt out of our use of web beacons in our marketing emails by: following the link ‘unsubscribe’ link in our marketing emails.
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool
You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting Your Online Choices, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.
Copyright, credit and logo
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit GDPR Privacy Policy.
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy.