Cookie Policy
Information about our use of cookies
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 consent to us using cookies). Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
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 website.
Our cookies help us to:
- Make our website work smoothly as you would expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed and security of the site
- Allow you to share pages easily across social media networks
- Continuously improve our website
- Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are consenting to this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Third Party Functions
Our Website, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. Our site includes cookies from:
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Individual Cookies and Purposes
COOKIE
NAME
PURPOSE
MORE INFO
Google Analytics
_ga, _gat, _gd, _gid
Tracking the path of visitors through the website and identifying returning visitors. Statistics derived from this information help us identify how well certain pages and aspects of the site perform and where we can make improvements to help visitors access the information they need more quickly and with less hassle.
google.com
Wordfence.com
Verifies human user
WordFence.com
Fr
Functionality for sharing content via Facebook. Used by Facebook to deliver a series of Ads such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
facebook.com
DoubleClick
test_cookie, id, IDE
Generated by double-click floodlight tags. Holds CheckForPermission value
Get Clicky
GetClicky tracking codes set cookies to better identify unique visitors, to make tracking more efficient and to lessen bandwidth used by free or inactive accounts
clicky.com
Session
wfvt
Contains information about user general georgraphic location such as time zone. This is a session cookie and deleted when a user leaves the site
webcookies.org
Guest_id
Functionality for sharing content via Twitter
Twitter.com
Adscale.de
uu, tu
Adscale is a German online advertising business and the cookies they install are for targeting advertising.
Adscale.de
Taboola.com
T_grid,
taboola_asg,
taboola_usg
Taboola provides sponsored news stories on websites. Users receive a User ID allowing for the targeting of advertising and content to this specific user ID. USG keeps track of user segmentation.
Taboola.com
Adroll.com
_ar_v4, _adroll
Anonymised remarketing cookie. Adroll provides interest based advertisements to show ads on other websites via installation of a remarketing cookie. This is an anonysmised process.
Adroll.com
Adxcore.com
Advst_uid_11, DISPATCHER
Unclassified
Adxcore.com
RubiconProject.com
C, rpb, put_3644, rpx, khaos
Registers anonymised user data such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites & what Ads user has clicked on with the purpose of optimising ad display based on user’s on websites that use the same Ad network.
RubiconProject.com
Casalemedia.com
CMID, CMPS, CMPRO, CMST, CMDD, CMRUM3, CMSC
Collects anonymous data related the user’s visits to the website such as number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted Ads
Casalemedia.com
Adtech.de
CFP, JEB2
Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. ID used for targeted ads.
Adtech.de
Bidswitch.net
C, tuuid, tuuid_last_update
Regulates Synchronisation of user identification and the exchange of user data between various ad services
Bidswitch.net
Openx.net
j
Register anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what Ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network
Openx.net
Rlcdn.com
Ck1, rlas3, rtn1-z
Collects anonymous data related to the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads
Rlcdn.com
Adsymptotic.com
U
Collects unidentifiable data and sent to an unidentifiable source. The source’s identity is kept secret.
Adsymptotic.com
Monarchads.com
BMID
Session cookies. Unrated. Behavioural targeting. Deleted after 13 months (or 30 days on inactivity)
Monarchads.com
Admatic.com
_adm_uibsw,
_adm_uiex,
ARRAFFINITY
Behavioural targeting. Deleted after 13 months (or 30 days on inactivity)
Admatic.com
Kiosked.com
tuuid_last_update, umdd
Behavioural targeting. Deleted after 13 months (or 30 days on inactivity)
Kiosked.com
Pubmine.com
tuuid,
tuuid_last_update,
rum
Unclassified
Pubmine.com
Admixer.net
Am-uid
Behavioural targeting. Deleted after 13 months (or 30 days on inactivity)
Admixer.net
Converse-digital.com
tuuid, tuuid_last_update,
um
Unclassified
Converse-digital.com
Atemda.com
RT1, UM1, vi, fid
Persistent cookie provides targeted commercial content, cookie lasts for 2 months.
Atemda.com
S3xified.com
admRtbUidCKey34334Ssp245
Unclassified
S3xified.com
Pubmatic.com
KRTBCOOKIE_10,
PugT,
PUBMDCID
Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device during return visits across websites that use the same ad network. ID used to allow targeted ads. Behavioural targeting. Deleted after 13 months (or 30 days on inactivity)
Pubmatic.com
Adnsx.com
Sess, uuid, anj
Unique identified. What adverts browser has seen, what page browser was on when they saw the advert, whether advert was clicked on, what type of pages browser has visited, IP address. Used for targeted advertising.
Adnsx.com
FixingBHP.com
Disclaimer_accepted, _gali, gd, _te_, x-mapping-eobchhon
Website Functionality cookies
FixingBHP.com
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