COOKIES (effective date 22/05/2018)
To make this site work properly, we place small data files called cookies on your device in order to give you a better user experience. Most websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies are specific to the browser you are using, so if you use Internet Explorer some of the time and Firefox or Chrome (for example) at other times, then each browser will ask if you agree to cookies for this site.
How we use cookies
On this site, cookies are used to gather anonymous visitor data. They are not necessary for the correct functioning of the site, but they do enable us to know which pages are of most interest, where our visitors come from and so on. They do not tell us who you are!
The full list of cookies used in the hybridGEOTABS website can be found below. If you don't want cookies to be stored on your computer, you can amend the settings of your browser. The help function within your browser will tell you how to achieve this. You could also visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains very helpful information about cookies, the way that they are used and how to stop them from being stored on your computer. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functions offered by the site may not be available.
If you are concerned about how our website uses cookies, you can get in touch with us via the Contact email at the bottom of our webpages.
PHPSESSID
No personal information is stored in this cookie. This allows the website to store some common information that is used throughout the site without having to reload it from the database on every page.
Cookie purpose description: Preserves user session state across page requests
Google Analytics
These are for tracking of stats, page views, bounce rate etc and is provided to us by Google.
_ga
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
_gat
Cookie purpose description: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_gid
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
collect
Cookie purpose description: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
See this link for more information:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
YouTube
On some pages there may be videos from YouTube. Cookies are required to view these.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Cookie purpose description: Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated You Tube video
YSC
Cookie purpose description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from You Tube the user has seen
WS_Currency
Although hybridGEOTABS website has no currency on the site this is wired into the CMS from Eskimo as default currency cookie.
Finally, cookies are used to record if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site so that you are not asked the question every time you visit the site (when the cookie expires, you will be asked again).