Cookie Policy

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First Party Cookies

Google Analytics

Third Party Cookies

Further Information

The Waterside website may use a “session cookie” to identify your browser “session” as you move between pages on the website and perform activities. The website cookie allows our website to recognise each subsequent request from your browser as being the same browser that made the initial request to our website.

Cookies are a very small text file that is stored on your device (for example, your PC or your phone) by your web browser. It contains a simple text code that your browser sends back to our website each time you browse to a new page. This allows the website to look up your specific session and associate data for that session with your browser. The data itself is not stored in your cookie but on the server(s) operating the website.

Each page on our website is generated by a sophisticated Content Management System (CMS) called Umbraco. This system may provide a number of interactive features where your experience may be tailored according to your past activity on the website. Such features require the “session cookie” to operate. As we improve our website over time, more advanced features may be added that also require a “session cookie” to operate. These cookies have names that begin with ASPNET or UMB.

We use a minimal number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ for detailed guidance.

The list below describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.).

You should also read our privacy policy in conjunction with this information about cookies.

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

Google Analytics

The Waterside website uses cookies to allow Google Analytics to function correctly. Google Analytics is a free web analytics tools that helps us understand how visitors engage with the Waterside website. These cookies have names that begin with __utm such as __utma and __utmz.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously; it reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. The cookies store information such as the number of visits to the website and what site referred the visitor to the web page. We use the information to view reports about how visitors interact with the website and to help us improve the website. A different set of cookies is used for each website, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB 

Visitors may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Information about these cookies and how to reject or delete them: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ads/#toc-analytics

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Google’s privacy policy: www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

Cookie Name Provider Purpose
ASP.NET_SessionId .NET Framework Used by the website to differentiate between current visitors and remembering website and form preferences
__RequestVerificationToken ASP.NET MVC CSRF anti forgery cookie that ensures that submitted forms were generated by this website
cb-enabled Waterside Tracks whether the user has accepted the cookie notification
     
_ga, _gid Google Analytics Google’s Universal Analytics cookies used to track a users interactions and journey around our website
_gcl_au Google AdSense Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency

 

Further Information

If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).

To find out more about cookies and how to manage them, visit: www.aboutcookies.org Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Waterside website.