Introduction
To make our website work properly and to improve your browsing experience, we sometimes place small data files on your computer or mobile device.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you do not need to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies can also be used for online behavioural target advertising and to show adverts relevant to something that the user searched for in the past.
How do we use cookies?
We use the various cookies referenced below (“our cookies”) to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Our cookies operate as tools that help website owners to measure how users interact with website content and store their employment preferences. Our cookies “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website, for example what pages you visit, how long you are on the website, how you got here and what you click on. This data is collected by way of our cookies in the pages of our website and is not tied to personally identifiable information. Our cookies do not store any personal information about our website users.
For further details of how our cookies collect and process data please follow the following links: https://www.google.com/analytics/analytics/features/
https://www.sharethis.com/
https://www.doubleclickbygoogle.com/
https://www.livechatinc.com/
https://www.salesfusion.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/
https://twitter.com/
Cookie details
GR8 Connect sets the following third party cookies:
| Name | Type | Purpose | Expiry |
| Google Analytics _utma | Persistent | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics | 2 years from set/update |
| Google Analytics __utmt | Persistent | Used to throttle request rate 10 minutes Google Analytics _utmb Session The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 mins from set/update Used to determine new sessions/visits. |
| Google Analytics __utmz | Persistent | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months from set/update |
| Google Analytics __utmv | Persistent | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 years from set/update |
| doubleclick.net id | Persistent | DoubleClick uses cookies to improve the performance of online advertisements. | 2 years |
| Sharethis | Session | ShareThis makes it easy for you to share anything on the web with your friends on social sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Email, Digg, Reddit and more through one tool. | 14 months |
| Social Media Facebook LinkedIn Twitter | Session | These cookies are used based on social connect functionalities or when you make use of a social media add on button (e.g. clicking on the ‘Like’ icon on a webpage) | 12 – 24 months |
| Live Chat | Persistent | When you sign into our Live Chat service this cookie recalls previous chats accessed through your email address to allow us to help you with ongoing or future queries. | Up to 3 years |
| Sales Fusion a.bid b. rid |
Persistent | This cookie allows us to suggest the most relevant and useful content to you from our website, via email, based on your activity. This content may include but is not limited to job opportunities, blogs, whitepapers and guides. | 10 years |
Managing cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. For details see www.aboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.