A cookie is a small piece of data in the form of a text file that may be stored on your browsing device after visiting a website. It allows a website to “remember” your actions or preferences over a length of time and helps us improve your experience each time you visit.
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There are two main categories of cookie:
Session Cookies: These temporary cookies are not stored on your device. They are deleted once your browser is closed or your session is inactive for 20 mins or more and times out.
Persistent cookies: Persistent or Duration cookies are placed on your browsing device for a pre-determined duration once you visit a website.
Profile Technology may use Google Analytics to assist in managing our website to ensure we provide relevant information in an easily accessible format and as a tool to give our customers best browsing experience.
Below is a list of cookies that we use. We have tried to ensure this is complete and up to date, but if you think that we have missed a cookie or there is any discrepancy, please let us know.
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Cookie Name |
Expiration |
Cookie Descriptor |
|---|---|---|
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_gid |
24 hours |
Used to distinguish users |
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_gat |
10 minutes |
Used to throttle request rate |
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_ga |
2 years |
Identifies unique users |
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_utma |
12 months |
Analytics. Used to distinguish users and sessions. |
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_utmb |
30mins |
Analytics. Used to determine new sessions/visits. |
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_utmc |
Close of session |
Analytics. To determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
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_utmv |
6 months |
Analytics. Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. |
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_utmz |
6 months |
Analytics. Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. |
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PHPSESSID |
Close of session |
Login functionality |
Re-marketing
Profile Technology utilise paid advertising tools including Google AdWords for advertising personalisation & remarketing purposes. These persistent cookies enable our marketing team to serve tailored advertising across Googles Display Network as well as tailoring search results for website visitors.
More information on Google AdWords Remarketing Cookies can be found here.
If you would like to opt out of interest-based advertising, you can do so at the link below
NAI Consumer Opt Out
What Personal Data is collected by using this website?
This website will collect the IP address of visitors. While Profile Technology cannot identify an individual by an IP address (an identifier number assigned to each computer and other device) that same information may be passed on to the competent Authority, so they make take the necessary steps to obtain information from the relevant ISP to identify an individual if they consider initiating criminal prosecutions as a result of a cyber-attack against this site.
Managing/Removing Your Cookies
To control the cookies from/on your browsing device, please see the attached links for the most common web browsers in use. Note: Third Party Cookies may be set when using hyperlinks to another website. Note: The 5 links below take you to external websites.
Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge
To provide our website visitors with the option of preventing their data from being used by Google Analytics, please click the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript here.
To view Google analytics data privacy and security analytics information click here.
Profile Technology welcomes objective feedback in respect of this Cookie Policy. NOTE: This Cookie Policy is part of our overall Privacy Statement.
