Cookie Policy

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer’s hard drive and allows web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. 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.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

We give you control over the types of cookies you decide to accept from our website. These are grouped as follows:

• Strictly necessary cookies – these are essential for our website to function. We don’t ask for your consent to these and the only way to avoid them is to not use our website.
• Nice to have cookies – these help us to give you a better user experience on our website, but the website will still function if you choose to turn them off.
• Advertising cookies – these allow advertising to be tailored to your interests, both on our website and as you browse the web after leaving our website. You can choose to turn these off.

Certikit Cookies (Strictly Necessary)

Name	Description	Expires
PHPSESSID	Used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie.	When the browsing session ends
aelia_cs_selected_currency	Sets current currency.	1 day
alt-cookies-nice-to-have	Checks if the nice to have cookies are allowed.	3 months
alt-cookies-advertising	Checks if the advertising cookies are allowed.	3 months
alt-cookies-set	Checks if the cookie form has been submitted.	3 months
ga-disable-UA-61447653-1	Disables the Google Analytics cookies	3 months

Reviews.co.uk Cookies (Nice to have)

Name	Description	Expires
__cfduid	Used to display user reviews.	1 year

Vimeo Cookies (Nice to have)

Name	Description	Expires
vuid	Used to display and deliver videos on our website.	2 years

Quriobot/website chatbot (Nice to have)

Name	Description	Expires
qbClosed-<bot path>	Stores whether the user has interacted with the bot.	When the browser session ends
qbStartCount-<bot path>	Stores the number of times the widget was loaded.	When the browser session ends
qbStoredData-<bot path>	Session storage for storing the bot state. (optionally, when restore bot is used)	1 hour
	Inside of the bot IFRAME Quriobot uses Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to track chat events, which does use cookies as outlined below.

DoubleClick/Google (Advertising)

Name	Description	Expires
IDE	Third party These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web.	13 months
test_cookie	Used to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies.	Immediately

Google Analytics Cookies (Advertising)

Name	Description	Expires
_ga	This helps us count how many people visit certikit.com by tracking if you have visited before.	2 years
_gat	Used to manage the performance of Google Analytics data collection.	1 minute
_gid	Used by Google Analytics to store information about the pages you visit on our website.	1 day

Facebook Cookies (Advertising)

Name	Description	Expires
_fbp	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers	3 months
fr	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.	3 months

Google Re-marketing cookies (Advertising)

Name	Description	Expires
_gcl_au	Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites.	3 months
ads/ga-audiences	Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor ‘s on line behaviour across websites.	immediately

Microsoft Cookies (Advertising)

Microsoft Ads cookies allow us to identify you as a previous customer so that relevant advertisements appear for you when you search through Bing. Learn more about Bing cookies at http://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-uk/privacy-policy. 

 

Name	Description	Expires
SRCHHPGUSR	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	2 years
OIDI	This is set by a third party service Bing for advertisement tracking purposes	1 year
_RwBf	This is set by a third party service Bing for advertisement tracking purposes.	1 year
_HPVN	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of the website.
MUID	Microsoft User Identifier tracking cookie used by Bing Ads	1 year
SRCHUSR	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	2 years
MSCC	These cookies track user behaviour through the site and interactions with the Bing Maps API.	6 months
ANON	This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie to enable user-based content