What is a Cookie and Why is it Important?
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser/ computer. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies are an essential part of the website technology and without them, web pages would not be functional and useless. For examples, they give websites the ability to remember your login session and preferred language.
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site e.g it enables us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can improve our site and services. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
We may use 'Session' cookies and 'Persistent' cookies on the site. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.
Here is an explanation about what a cookie is – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I01XMRo2ESg
About Cookie Consent
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can choose to accept or decline cookies. When you browse our website and that your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret your action as an indication of your consent to accept our cookies. You can modify your browser settings to decline/ disable cookies if you prefer but this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the site and getting the best possible browsing experience.
For more information about turning off cookies, follow this guide at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/
Cookies Categories
Our Cookies are categorised in 4 main sections:
- Necessary Cookie – This cookie help us to make our website usable e.g by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Functionality Cookie – This cookie enables our website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
- Performance Cookie – This cookie help us to understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This allows us to improve our site performance, services and business operations such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
- Third-Party Cookie – These are mainly marketing cookies. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. The cookies do not provide us with any confidential information about your account when you logged-in via our website.
How we use Cookies
Below is a full list of the cookies used on our website:
| Cookie Name |
Purpose of Cookie | Duration | Provider | Category |
| SESSIONID | The session ID is part of a cookie that is sent to the user browser – it is used to maintain your session as you navigate through the website (our server send cookie using the Set-Cookie header – it contains the ‘HttpOnly’ flag for security purposes). | When browser is closed | kongnectdesign.co.uk | Necessary |
| cookieconsent_status | This cookie is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on this website. Once you've consented, a cookie is set which prevents the Cookie alert bar from appearing at the bottom of the browser window. | 1 Year | kongnectdesign.co.uk | Necessary |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – we use it to prevent spam bots and we have no control over such cookies being set. Normally, this cookie collects website statistics and track conversion rates. | 1 Month | google.com | Necessary |
| ANID | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – it is a Google Analytics cookie for tracking and analysing information. | 6 Months | google.com | Performance |
| CGIC | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – it is a Google Analytics cookie to store user preferences and information for tracking and analysing purposes. | 6 Months | google.com | Performance |
| CONSENT | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – we use it to prevent spam bots and we have no control over such cookies being set. It carries out information about how you uses our website, and to save user consent preferences. | 20 Years | google.com | Necessary |
| DV | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – it is a Google Analytics cookie to store user preferences and information for tracking and analysing purposes. | 15 Mins | google.com | Necessary |
| NID | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – we use it to prevent spam bots and we have no control over such cookies being set. This cookie contains a unique ID, Google use it to remember your preferences and other information such as your preferred language (e.g. English), customise ads on Google on search results page etc. | 6 Months | google.com | Necessary |
| SNID | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – it is a Google Analytics cookie for tracking and analysing information. | 6 Months | google.com | Performance |
| GAPS | This cookie is used to collect information in an anonymous form about how user use our site, track user behaviour (e.g number of visitors to the site) and facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. This cookie is associated with Google +1 button, which is embedded on our site. | 2 Years | google.com | Third-Party |
| _pk_id | This is a analytics cookie to collect and analyse information about how you interact with our websites, this helps to provide better engagement with you so that we can improve our services | 1 Year | matomo.org | Performance |
| _pk_ses | This is a analytics cookie to collect and analyse information about how you interact with our websites, this helps to provide better engagement with you so that we can improve our services | 30 Mins | matomo.org | Performance |
| _gat | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – we use it to prevent spam bots. This cookie is part of the Google Analytics and it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites | 1 Min | google.com | Performance |
| _ga | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – we use it to prevent spam bots. This cookie is used to uniquely identify you as a visitor to this site. | 2 Years | google.com | Performance |
| _gid | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website – we use it to prevent spam bots. This cookie is used to distinguish you as user to Google as it stores a unique user session identifier. | 1 Day | google.com | Performance |
| _twitter_sess | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site. It is used to maintain your session as you browse through our Twitter feed on our website. | When browser is closed | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| ads_prefs | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to remember logged-in users, track user behaviour and facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. | 5 Years | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| auth_token | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to remember logged-in users, track user behaviour and facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. | 5 Years | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| csrf_same_site_set | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it enables us to track visitor activities from our Twitter feed/ ads for marketing purposes and facilitate sharing from our site. | 1 Year | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| csrf_same_site | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it enables us to track visitor activities from our Twitter feed/ ads for marketing purposes and facilitate sharing from our site. | 1 Year | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| ct0 | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it enables us to track visitor activities from our Twitter feed/ ads for marketing purposes and facilitate sharing from our site. | 1 Day | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| dnt | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it enables users to login to their Twitter account and share content and posts from our site for marketing purposes. | 1 Day | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| eu_cn | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it enables us to track visitor activities from our Twitter feed/ ads for marketing purposes and facilitate sharing from our site. | 1 Year | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| external_referer | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it enables us to track visitor activities from our Twitter feed/ ads for marketing purposes and facilitate sharing from our site. | 1 Week | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| guest_id | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to distinguish you as user to Twitter as it stores a unique user session identifier. | 2 Years | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| kdt | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to monitor referral links and login status via Twitter widget and button. | 18 Months | twitter.com | Funtionality |
| personalization_id | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to remember logged-in users, track user behaviour and facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. | 2 Years | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| remember_checked_on | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to remember logged-in users, track user behaviour and facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. | 5 Years | twitter.com | Funtionality |
| tfw_exp | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to provide Twitter content on our site. | 14 Days | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| twid | This cookie is set due to our Twitter widget/ feed being embedded on our site, it is used to remember logged-in users, track user behaviour and facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. | 5 Years | twitter.com | Third-Party |
| fr | This cookie is used to provide personalized ads, and improve ads performance. This cookie is associated with Facebook 'Like' and 'Share' buttons, which are embedded on our site. | 3 Months | facebook.com | Third-Party |
| loc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to facilitate sharing for marketing purposes. This cookie carries geolocation information. | 2 Years | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| na_id | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to give visitors the option to recommend our website/ page content on social media networks. | 1 Year | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| na_tc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to give visitors the option to recommend our website/ page content on social media networks. | 1 Year | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| ouid | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to give visitors the option to recommend our website/ page content on social media networks. | 1 Year | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| ssc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to give visitors the option to recommend our website/ page content on social media networks. It tracks sharing when the AddThis functionality is used. | 2 Years | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| uid | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to give visitors the option to recommend our website/ page content on social media networks. It is also used to assign machine-generated user ID. | 1 Year | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| uvc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to give visitors the option to recommend our website/ page content on social media networks. It is also used to count number of visitors. | 1 Year | addthis.com | Third-Party |
| __atuvc | This cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behavior for users. | 1 Year | addthis.com | Funtionality |
| __atuvs | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is embedded on our website to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. | 30 Mins | addthis.com | Funtionality |
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