Cookie policy

Cookies on utilityweek.co.uk

All Faversham House Ltd websites use cookies for a variety of purposes. These include enabling you to log in and access your account on the site, differentiating between new and returning users for the purpose of site traffic analytics, and controlling the frequency and targeting of advertising. Additionally our site may deliver third party cookies via third party advertising or applications such as social media sharing buttons – these do not fall within our control.

Controlling cookies

You can use your browser settings to control or block cookies from all sites or from individual websites. For more information on how to do this, see: http://www.aboutcookies.org/default.aspx?page=1

To control your cookie settings in different browsers, see the specific page for each browser:

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More about cookies on this site

The cookies we use on this site include:

Essential cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences (See above). We also use analytical cookies, to opt out of these please see the section below on ‘Analytical Cookies’.

Cookie name Provider Purpose
ADFEAuthCookie, ADFLoggedOut, LoggedUserToken internal Maintain internal state
ADAnonymousAccessCookie internal Maintain internal state
wordpress_* internal Essential internal operations cookies
wp-settings-time-* internal Essential internal operations cookies
_dc*, _ga, _ga_*, _gid, _gali, _gat_UA-*, _gcl_au, __utm* internal Used by Google Analytics
CookieControl, hustle*, inc_optin* User preferences (for cookies and on-site popups etc)

Analytical Cookies

Analytical cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage.

For information on opting out of Google Anlytics see http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Cookie name Provider Purpose
__utma Google This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site pertaining to the cookie, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred
__utmb, __utmv, __utmt Google Works with __utma
__utmc Google Calculates how long a visit takes
__utmz Google Where the visitor came from, what search engine they used, what link they clicked on, what keyword they used, and where they were
_ga Google Used to distinguish users
_gid Google Used to distinguish users
_gali Google Usef for enhanced link attribution
_gat, _dc_gtm_{property-id} Google Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_{property-id}
_gat_UA-UA-223217-1 Google Universal Analytics. These are performance cookies which we use to collect information about how our visitors use the website

Marketing Cookies

We use marketing cookies to help us improve the relevancy of advertising campaigns you receive.

If you prefer to see generic adverts that are less relevant to you, see:

Google analytics
Google adverts
LinkedIn advertising
Twitter ads
YouTube cookie choices

Cookie name Provider Purpose
CONSENT Google Google Analytics cookie
NID Google The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language
_dc_gat_UA_{num}, _dc_gtm_UA_{num} Google Google Analytics ID, via Google Tag Manager, so that DoubleClick Campaign Manager can use it
1P_JAR, IDE, DV, UULE, APISID, HSID, SAPISID, SID, SIDCC, SSID Google Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes
BizoID LinkedIn LinkedIn Ad analytics, insights and ads tags
lidc LinkedIn Used for routing, share buttons and ad tags
bcookie LinkedIn Browser ID cookie, share buttons and ad tags
UserMatchHistory LinkedIn LinkedIn Ad analytics, LinkedIn insights and ads tags
personalization_id Twitter Twitter personalisation
O1_LIVE, YSC, SAPISID, CONSENT, APISID, SSID, LOGIN_INFO, SID, HSID, PREF YouTube YouTube cookies

AdvertServe

We deliver adverts using AdvertServe.

AdvertServe is a digital advertising platform used by thousands of advertisers and publishers since 1998. As part of their commitment to privacy we have created the AdvertServe Privacy Shield program to give you total control over your privacy as well as the ability to customize your digital advertising experience.

See AdvertServe Privacy Shield for more information.

Cookie name Provider Purpose
AVPUID, AVP_UUID AdvertServe AdvertServe cookie

Social Sharing Cookies

We use some social sharing plugins, to allow you to share certain pages of our website on social media

See http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out for more information.

Cookie name Provider Purpose
__atuvc, __atuvs AddThis USed by AddThis social sharing in order to make sure you see the correct counts. To opt out, see https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/
loc, mus, ouid, uid, uvc AddThis Which type of browser you are using, and your geographic location. AddThis may aggregate data about what pages are shared, when, where and how

Behavourial advertising

You may be shown advertising on other websites via the Google Display Network and other advertising networks, as a result of visiting this site. If you are concerned about behavioural advertising and how to control or prevent it, please see http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/ for more information.

Third party cookies

It is possible that cookies are also delivered via third party adverts or links on our site. These do not come under our control and are therefore not covered by our cookie/privacy policy. However any such cookies would not have access to any personal data stored by this site.