This notice explains what cookies Cifas uses when you visit our website.
In general terms, we don't collect information about you over and above what we need to ensure that:
- you can use our site in a secure manner
- we can check (for example) the number of visitors to the different pages.
About our cookies
When you first visit our website, you will be asked to set your cookie preferences. This enables you to choose
whether or not to allow us to set our optional analytics and user experience cookies. Some cookies are strictly
necessary for the operation of certain pages on the Cifas website, but we only set those on the pages that
require
them.
If you have consented, we set analytical cookies to log the visit and details of the pattern of your visit
(whether
you linked from another website, which pages you view, and so on). We do this anonymously – making no
attempt
to find out or record your identity, nor the identities of anyone visiting our site.
If you have consented, we set “user experience” cookies which enable certain plug-ins (such as the
Twitter widget) to function on some pages of the Cifas website.
You can always change your mind about the optional cookies by clicking on the cog icon at the bottom left hand
corner
of any page.
The tables below explain the cookies we use and why.
Strictly Necessary cookies:
| Cookie |
Names |
Why |
| Cookie setting cookie |
cookiesetting |
This cookie is used to tell the website the status of the cookies being used. It is stored for 30
days
so the user does not need to keep selecting their option every time they use the website, and does
not
store anything other than status options. |
| Iesnare cookie |
mpsnare.iesnare.com |
Strictly necessary as part of the online data subject access request system to help to identify and
validate users and computers. Only set if you consent to electronic verification. |
| Google reCaptcha |
NID
CONSENT
1P_JAR
ANID
DV |
Strictly necessary to reduce the amount of spam being sent to the various forms on the website by
using
Google’s re Captcha system. Only set on the pages with forms. |
| Cifas website session cookie |
PHPSESSID |
The session cookie provides security on the pages to make a subject access request and to apply for
Protective Registration. For those pages, these cookies are strictly necessary for security. |
Optional Analytics cookies:
| Cookie |
Names |
Why |
| Cifas website session cookie |
PHPSESSID |
This gives each visitor a new unique number each time they visit, and is deleted when the user
leaves
the site. Although all visitors who allow cookies will be assigned a number so that the site knows
it is
talking to the same person, there is no personally identifiable data stored in this cookie. |
| Google Analytics |
_ga
_gat
_gid |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use Google
Analytics to monitor trends, to count how many users visit our site, which pages they favour, and
whether they linked to us from another site. The cookies collect the information in an anonymous
form.
Google stores the analytics data, not us. More information can be found on
the Google
Analytics website and Google's privacy policy also covers Google Analytics. |
| Double Click cookie |
IDE |
To analyse visitor traffic to the site as part of Google Analytics. |
Optional User Experience cookies:
| Cookie |
Names |
Why |
| Twitter cookie |
_twitter_sess
_tfw_exp
guest_id
daa
eu_cn
personalization_id
_ga
lang
tfw_exp
|
These cookies enables the Twitter widget to operate and appear on some news and blog pages.
|
| Cifas website session cookie |
PHPSESSID |
Used to remember filters on the blog and news search pages. |
Our own server – like all web servers – logs your Internet Protocol (IP) address, together with the
date
and time of your visit. This data is held on our server, which is located within the United Kingdom.
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set
cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store
personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced
mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘Cog’ icon located at the
bottom
left hand corner of the page. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or
‘Off’,
then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out
more
about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.