The Albert Bartlett website uses a number of different cookies. These cookies allow us to help you get the best out of your visit to the website and improve your user experience. Below we explain the cookies we use and why we use them.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is saved on your device when you visit our site. When you next visit our site these cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users and remember your preferences.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
Persistent cookies – Persistent cookies remain on your device until you delete them manually or they are automatically deleted after a set period of time.
Session cookies – Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser when they are automatically deleted.
How we use cookies
The following is a list of cookies used by our website, and what they are used for:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Session Cookie | We use a session cookie to maintain information about each visit to the website and enable core site functionality. This cookie does not contain any personal information, only lasts for the duration of your visit, and is deleted as soon as you close your web browser. |
| Google Analytics | _utma (Persistent) deleted 2 years from set/update _utmb (Persistent) deleted 30 mins from set/update _utmc (Session) _utmz (Persistent) deleted 6 months from set/update | These cookies allows us to count page visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site, using a service provided by Google Analytics. For more information about Google’s privacy policy, and more details on how this cookie operates, please use this link:www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. |
| DoubleClick | Persistent | This cookie is used to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. DoubleClick cookies contain no personally identifiable information. |
| Session | These cookies are used when integrating twitter feeds into our site’s pages and to allow the sharing of content. | |
| Add This | Persistent | We allow visitors to our website to share content via their social media accounts (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) through a service called AddThis. When this is used AddThis assign a cookie to the visitors’ web browser. AddThis do not install any tracking software onto our visitor machines |
| Mathtag.com | Persistent | This Third Party tracking cookie from MediaMath Inc allows us to better understand user profiles and enables us to tailor our adverts to make them more relevant to our customers’ needs. |
| tinyurl.com | Persistent | TinyURL creates friendly URLs from larger URLs for easier sharing. TinyURL set a cookie for their own internal records. |
| abmr.net | Persistent | Tracks frequency of visits to the website, the length of time spent on the site and basic information about the user including browser type, IP address. |
| Vimeo | Persistent | Stores user preferences for the playback of videos from Vimeo.com |
| YouTube | Persistent | A unique identifier given to each computer that allows tracking of YouTube videos by Google. |
| bidswitch.net | Persistent | Used by advertising company Swicth Ads in tracking web browsing behaviour. |
| ibillboard.com | Persistent | Used by advertising company iBillBoard in tracking web browsing behaviour. |
| adnxs.com | Persistent | This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
| go.affec.tv | Persistent | This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
| scorecardresearch.com | Persistent | This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
Removing and disabling cookies
If you do not wish to accept cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However this will affect the functionality of the websites you visit.
For more help on how to disable your cookies or delete them visit www.aboutcookies.org.
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