Cookies

What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are created by websites you visit and stored on your computer.

They help websites remember important information about you. For example, if you're on a website adding items to a shopping cart, and you leave the website, a cookie will store information about you, so that the next time you arrive at that site, your shopping cart will have the items you previously added to it

Usually a cookie can only be access by the website that created it.


Can we use cookies?
We use cookies to see how many people use our site, and which parts are the most popular. Can we continue to use cookies? You can say NO and it won't have a major impact on how you view our site.




What is the problem about Cookies?
Althought cookies can only be accessed by the website that created them, there are a number of technical ways to share cookies between sites. This means that some websites can track a user across the internet. A common example of this is in advertising. Advertising networks use cookies to build a profile of you, and show you relevant products and services.



What are Smart Cookies?
Smart Cookies are a type of technology that allows a cookie to be shared between a website.

They were developed by PrivacyTrust to help users set their own privacy preferences once, and then be used on other websites.



What is a secure cookie?
A secure cookie is a technical classification for a cookie. These cookies are secure in the sense that they cannot be accessed via Javascript.

This means that only the server they were set on can access them, making them more secure than normal cookies and more resistant to XSS attacks.




Cookies Types
There are the following main types of cookies:



Criticial Cookies
Criticial Cookies are required for a site to function. They perform a task or operation without which a site's performance would be compromised.

Functional Cookies
unctional Cookies help a site work well, they enable additional features which can make the user experience better.



Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies are used to determine usage of a site, they may track an individual users, but only to the extent to allow a users journey through the site. They are not used for targeting adverts (Marketing Cookies)



Social Cookies
Social Cookies are a new class of cookie.

They are set by Social Media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, when you view or use embedded media.

An example would be a cookie set by YouTube to measure views of an embedded video.

These cookies can sometimes track your activities and so are closely related to advertising cookies.

However, disabling them may result in you not being able to view the embedded content..


Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies are used to target advertising to a user (behavioural targeting). They are often served by third party companies, and track a user across websites.



GDPR - The General Data Protection Regulation

The General Data Protection Regulation is a series of laws that were approved by the EU Parliament in 2016. They came into affect on May 25th 2018.

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an initiative by the EU to bring data protection legislation into line with new ways that data is now used.

The new regulations give users great control over their data, including the ability to export it, withdraw consent and request access to it.

It also makes data protection rules more or less identical throughout the EU, allowing for the easier transfer of data through out the European Union.

It affects any company that does business with Europe, whether they are based in the EU or not.

It serves as a leading regulatory model for other data protection authorities throughout the world.

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