What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognise the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive.
Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
Cookies are stored in your web browser for various periods of time, this time can range from the duration of your browsing session (session cookie) to several months (persistent cookie) and allows the us or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful to you. Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
Our website uses cookies to keep track of your access to the site. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Your browser will give you the option of preventing websites using cookies, or deleting cookies that have been accepted. Your browser’s help service or help manual will show you how this is done. If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can “turn off” the cookie acceptance setting on your browser setting. However you must note that this may stop our website from working properly on your device. If you do not change your browser settings to refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit our website. If you continue to use our website, you agree and consent to our use of cookies on your device.
How we use cookies
When you use and access this Service, we may place a number of cookies in your web browser, we may use cookies for the following purposes:
- recording how many people (anonymous) in general are using the GETNS website, this is to ensure there is enough capacity and the website runs fast enough to give the user a smooth experience.
- analysing anonymous data to give us a better understanding of how people use and interact with the Service so that we can constantly strive to improve it.
How to manage cookies
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the “Help” pages of your web browser, however if you delete or refuse to accept cookies then you might not be able to use all the features provided on the service. To learn more about cookies you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ which has a comprehensive guide on them and on how to restrict / delete them for most common browsers.
What cookies do we use?
We use our own cookie to make the help make the Service run better, details of this is listed below
CookieName: ASP.NET_SessionId
Reason: Enables the server to recognise the user in their current browser session,
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
CookieName: _acceptCookie18
Reason: Records that the user has accepted the cookie policy so it is not shown again
Expires: 1 year
If we show a twitter feed on our Service then Twitter will use their own cookie for remembering the user’s language
CookieName: lang
Reason: Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
If we use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use the Service then the following will cookies will be created
CookieName: _ga
Reason: records statistical data on how you use the Service
Expires: 2 years
CookieName: _gat, _gid
Reason: records statistical data on how you use the Service
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
We use a Third party control to enable users to share articles with their friends
CookieName: _stid
Reason: records user browser for return visits
Expires: 1 year