What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files, placed on your device in order to remember certain information about you from your visit to our site. They usually consist of a randomly generated unique number which can be accessed either by a web server or the clients computer.
What do we use these cookies for?
These are used to make our website work more efficiently and help us to provide you with a good experience. We also use cookies to gather anonymous, aggregated statistics which we can then utilize to understand how visitors use our website and work towards improving the content and layout. We cannot personally identify you from this information.
Cookies used by Cairn Research
Cookies set by us are called first-party cookies however we do use third-party cookies which are from a different domain from Cairn Research. Third-party cookies are used to enhance our advertising and marketing efforts and are all GDPR compliant. Their privacy/cookie policies can be found listed below, along with a detailed description of what cookies they use. You can opt-out of each cookie category at any time (except strictly necessary cookies).
The four cookies that may be used on Cairn Research are:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
- Performance Cookies
- Functional Cookies
- Targeting Cookies
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are essential to enable you to move around our website and use its features and cannot be switched off. These are usually set in response to actions made by users such as setting your privacy preferences, accessing secure areas of our site, for example, my account or filling in contact forms. You can change your browser settings to block or alert you of these cookies, however, this can cause some parts of the site to not work.
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiration Time |
|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager (_dc_gtm_ | Google Tag Manager allows us to capture additional interactions with our site’s content such as scroll depth and other common kinds of tracking through Google Analytics. This is used to load scripts into our website pages via Google Tag Manager. | 1 Minute |
| Cairn Research PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP and enables our website to store serialized state data. This is used to establish a user session which then passes state data via a temporary cookie, commonly referred to as a session cookie. | After Session |
Performance Cookies
These are used to collect information about how you use our website, for example, what pages you visit as well as if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that can identify you; all information collected is anonymous which we use to improve the functionality of our website. If you choose not to allow these cookies, we will not be able to tell if you have visited our site. Should you choose to allow performance cookies, we have altered our Google Analytics by setting the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses to zeros. This means no full IP address is ever written to disk in this case meaning, even if you told us your IP address, we wouldn’t be able to find you in our analytics data.
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiration Time |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Google Analytics gathers information that allows us to understand the interactions users have with our website. Having a better understanding helps us to refine your experience to better serve you. | |
| _utma | This is used to distinguish users and sessions | 2 Years |
| _utmz | Identifies the traffic source or campaign that explains how users reached our site | 6 Months |
| _gat (_dc_gtm_ | This is used to throttle the request rate when Google Analytics is deployed through Google Tag Manager | 1 Minute |
| _gid | This is also used to distinguish users | 24 Hours |
| _ga | This is also used to distinguish user | 2 Years |
| _utmb | This is used to determine new sessions/visits. This is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics | 30 Minutes |
| _utmc | This is used to determine whether a user was in a new session/visit | End of browser |
Functional Cookies
These help to provide certain navigation elements of our website which enhance your browsing experience and the functionality of the website. These tend to be set by third-party providers to allow videos and live chats. Should you choose not to allow these cookies, some or all of these functionalities may not perform properly.
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiration Time |
|---|---|---|
| Tawk.To TawkConnectionTime | Tawk.To allows us to monitor and chat with visitors to our website in real-time. This cookie is set to allow us to connect directly with visitors via Tawk.To’s online chatting software where we are able to deal with customer queries quickly. | After Session |
Targeting Cookies
These cookies are set by our third-party advertising partners. These may be used to create a profile of your interests and therefore present you with relevant ads on other sites that you visit. These uniquely identify your browser and device; should you choose not to allow these cookies, our targeted advertising will no longer apply to you.
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiration Time |
|---|---|---|
| Lucky Orange | Lucky Orange is an analytics system that helps to improve usability and overall customer experience. | |
| _lotl | Identifies the traffic source URL of the visitor’s original referrer, if there is any. | 180 Days |
| _lo_ui | This shows the unique identifier for the visitor. | 2 Years |
| _lo-u | This is used to show the total number of the visitor’s visits. | 2 Years |
| _lo_v | This is also used to show the total number of the visitor’s visits. | 1 Year |
| _lorid | This is used to identify the ID of the visitors current recording. | 2 Years |
| Lo_session_in | This is used to distinguish the current users session. | After Session |
This cookie policy was updated on 24th May 2018. Please refer back to this from time-to-time as this will be kept up to date to reflect any recent changes.
