Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

As with most oth­er com­mer­cial web­sites, our web­site uses a stan­dard tech­nol­o­gy called​ ‘cook­ies’. Cook­ies con­tain infor­ma­tion that is trans­ferred to your computer’s hard drive. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A ​‘cook­ie’ is a very small text doc­u­ment, which often includes an anony­mous unique iden­ti­fi­er. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, vis­it www​.about​cook​ies​.org.

How we use cookies

We use the fol­low­ing cook­ies on our website:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Analytical/performance cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies operated by Google for these purposes.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our web-site. This enables us to personalise our content for you or remember your preferences. We use cookies operated by Twitter, Craft CMS, PHP and CloudFlare for these purposes.

Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website, and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

Doubleclick – Google DoubleClick

These cookies set by a third party (DoubleClick) and are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to you based on your previous visits to this website. For example, advertisements about a topic you have expressed an interest in while browsing our site may be displayed to you across the web. In addition, these cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.

For more information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

Universal Analytics (Google)

_ga – Google Analytics – For VPS to track site usage – Used to distinguish users

_gid – Google Analytics – For VPS to track site usage – Used to distinguish users

_ga_DEC86K305V – Google Analytics – For VPS to track site usage – Used to persist session state

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Youtube

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface

YSC – These cookies are set by YouTube to track usage of its services.

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel. This may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player.

Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

YSC – * expires at the end of your session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – *expires after eight months

CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN – Craft CRM security cookie – To stop Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack

A cookie named CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN will be created to facilitate protection against cross-site request forgeries. This helps to safeguard data as it is submitted through forms on the website.

CraftSessionId – Craft CRM – For PHP sessions to maintain sessions across web requests

Craft relies on PHP sessions to maintain sessions across web requests. That is done via the PHP session cookie called “CraftSessionId”. This cookie expires as soon as the visitors browsing session expires.

For exam­ple, we use cook­ies to record infor­ma­tion about a user’s access to this web­site. Users may view the web­site with­out the use of cook­ies by leav­ing the web­site, dis­abling cook­ies in their Inter­net brows­er and re-enter­ing the web­site, but this may lim­it your access to this web­site or the func­tion­al­i­ty of cer­tain pages with­in the web­site. By using this web­site with­out dis­abling cook­ies, you con­sent to us col­lect­ing and using infor­ma­tion obtained from cookies.

Infor­ma­tion gath­ered through cook­ies and web serv­er logs may include the date and time of vis­its, the pages viewed, time spent at our web­site, and the web­sites vis­it­ed just before and just after our website.

We may col­lect infor­ma­tion about your com­put­er, includ­ing, where avail­able, your IP address, oper­at­ing sys­tem and brows­er type, for sys­tem admin­is­tra­tion pur­pos­es, and to report aggre­gate infor­ma­tion to any third par­ty adver­tis­ers on our web­site. This is sta­tis­ti­cal data about our users’ brows­ing actions and pat­terns and does not iden­ti­fy any individual.

Please note that any third par­ty adver­tis­ers on our web­site may also use cook­ies, over which we have no control.

Why we use cookies

As you browse on our web­site, the web­site uses its cook­ies to dif­fer­en­ti­ate you from oth­er users, in order to make sure you don’t see the same con­tent repeat­ed­ly, to deliv­er con­tent spe­cif­ic to your inter­ests, and to help pro­vide you with an excel­lent user expe­ri­ence. They help us to improve our web­site and to deliv­er a bet­ter and more per­son­alised ser­vice. They also save you from re-inputting infor­ma­tion when you return to our website.

Cook­ies, in con­junc­tion with our web server’s log files, also allow us to cal­cu­late the aggre­gate num­ber of peo­ple vis­it­ing our web­site and to check which parts of the web­site are most pop­u­lar. This helps us gath­er feed­back in order con­stant­ly to improve our web­site and bet­ter serve our customers.

Choices about cookies

• You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s):
• Strictly necessary cookies    ALWAYS ACTIVE
• Analytical or performance cookies    OFF
• Functionality cookies    OFF
•  Targeting cookies    OFF
• You can also choose to “Reject All” cookies in the cookie banner.
• However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
•  Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after [EXPIRY PERIOD].

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at privacy@vpsgroup.com.