What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files, usually consisting of letters and numbers that are stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. Cookies are used by websites and have a number of different functions - some are strictly necessary and some are optional.
Which cookies does this website use?
Our website uses both first and third party cookies. First party cookies are set by Ecology and third party cookies are set by another site.
We use cookies to allow the website, session or Ecology’s online accounts, to work properly and these are considered strictly necessary so are always on (active). We also use cookies for performance and analysis, advertising and to interact with social networking sites and these cookies are optional.
The table below lists the cookies we use on our website and explains why we use them. We believe in only gathering information that is necessary.
| Cookie | Placed By | Functionality | Purpose | Expiration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OptanonConsent | Ecology | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | Strictly Necessary | 1 year |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Ecology | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information. | Strictly Necessary | 1 year |
| SOCS | Stores user’s consent choices for Google services | Strictly Necessary | 1 year | |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Smart Money People | Prevents cross-site request forgery. | Strictly Necessary | 2 hours |
| _cf_bm | Cloudflare | Bot protection & security | Strictly Necessary | 30 minutes |
| bigbite_session | Smart Money People | Maintains a user session to enable functionality such as submitting and managing reviews via the Smart Money People service. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| wp_lang | WordPress | Used to store the user’s language preference to ensure content is displayed in the correct language. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | Used to check whether the user’s browser supports cookies. This is necessary for the proper functioning of the website. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| visitor_session_partitioned | Glia | Used by the Glia customer service platform to maintain a user session and enable chat functionality. | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| api.glia.eu | Glia | Used by the Glia customer service platform to maintain a user session and enable chat functionality. | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| incompat_visitor_session | Glia | Used by the Glia customer service platform to maintain a user session and enable chat functionality. | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| visitor_session | Glia | Maintains visitor chat/support session | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| visitor_session_partitioned | Glia | Maintains partitioned visitor chat/support session for privacy/browser isolation | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| ts_did, ts_hwid | Transmit Security | Used by Transmit Security to identify devices and support secure authentication and fraud prevention. | Strictly Necessary | 1 Year |
| GCLB | Google Cloud Load Balancer | Used to ensure requests are routed to the correct server and to maintain session consistency. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| _cfuvid | Cloudflare | Used for rate limiting and bot detection to help protect the website from malicious traffic. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| __RequestVerificationToken | Ecology | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ARRAffinity | Ecology | The ARRAffinity cookie is a feature of Azure App Service that allows users to communicate with the same Azure App Service worker instance until their session ends. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Ecology | The ARRAffinitySameSite cookie is a cookie used by websites that run on Microsoft Azure to ensure that page requests from visitors are directed to the same server during a browsing session. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Ecology | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
How do I manage my cookies?
To view the cookies we use on our website and manage the optional cookies click here.
To find out more about cookies please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office (often referred to as ICO).