www.accountit-4u.co.uk cookies
Here you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit www.accountit-4u.co.uk and how to reject or delete those cookies.
Topics
- What is a cookie
- How we use cookies
- List of the main www.accountit-4u.co.uk essential cookies
- How to control and delete cookies
- How to turn cookies off
- Third Party Cookies set for users
- Cookies set by Third Party sites
- Social Sharing Cookies
What is a Cookie?
A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us tounderstand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you areusing our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well asproducts and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during yourweb session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – theyusually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website withouthaving to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data fromyour computer; or
- Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on yourcomputer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie canbe read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. [Weuse persistent cookies for Google Analytics.]
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable youto use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service.Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot beprovided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be usedfor marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improvethe performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits,identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to rememberchoices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able toprovide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They mayalso be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video orcommenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usuallyanonymised.
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website,the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use thisinformation to make our website and the advertising displayed on it morerelevant to your interests.
- First and third party cookies: Firstparty cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies onour website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where wehave adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show yourelevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and these are set out in the table below
List of the main www.accountit-4u.co.uk essential cookies
Necessary
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
Analytics
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_165438715_1 | 1 minute | Set by Google to distinguish users. |
Others
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| detectedLogoWidth | never | No description available. |
Cookie scan by By CookieYes
Third Party Cookies set for users
www.accountit-4u.co.uk also uses a number of third party plugins which set cookies on this website to deliver features like web traffic reporting and social media services. To find out more information about the cookies used by these plugins and details on how to disable each one specifically please review the information below.
| Third Party | Description |
| Twitter provides www.accountit-4u.co.uk with functionality to spread our content via social media. Twitter uses this cookie to determine if a twitter user is available to share content or not. Click here for information on how to reject or delete this cookie | |
| Google Analytics | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for information on how to reject or delete this cookie |
| Share This | Share This provides www.accountit-4u.co.uk with functionality to spread our websites content via social media or email. The cookies are required to operate this functionality. Click here for information on how to reject or delete this cookie |
| Facebook provides www.accountit-4u.co.uk with functionality to spread our content via social media. Facebook uses this cookie to determine if a Facebook user is available to share content or not. Click here for information on how to reject or delete this cookie | |
| LinkedIn provides www.accountit-4u.co.uk with functionality to spread our content via social media. LinkedIn uses this cookie to determine if a LinkedIn user is available to share content or not. Click here for information on how to reject or delete this cookie |
How to control and delete cookies
www.accountit-4u.co.uk does not use cookies to store personally identifiable information about you. However if you are wanting to block the cookies that www.accountit-4u.co.uk has set this can be done through your browser settings. You may consult the help feature of your web browser to do this.
You can also visit www.aboutcookies.org which has a How to control cookies section. This details how to control and delete cookies in all mainstream web browsers. Along with details on cookie law and other useful information.
Please note that disabling cookies will affect the usability of this website as cookies are required for a number of features to work.
www.accountit-4u.co.uk also uses a number of third party plugins which set cookies on this website to deliver features like web traffic reporting and social media services. To find out more information about the cookies used by these plugins and details on how to disable each one specifically please see section 4 below.
How do I turn cookies off?
Modern web browsers allow you to change your cookie settings and specify which cookies or sites to block and the ability to clear existing cookies. A good place to start is in your web browser's help section this is often found under the Help menu. For more information please use the below links.
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer support.microsoft.com
- Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge support.microsoft.com
- Cookie settings in Firefox support.mozilla.org
- Cookie settings in Chrome support.google.com/
- Cookie settings in Safari support.apple.com
Please note it's not recommended to disable cookies as this will affect the usability of this website.
Cookies set by Third Party sites
To improve the user experience there may be embedded media content from websites like YouTube and Vimeo. These embedded widgets can use cookies as part of their standard functionality. www.accountit-4u.co.uk does not control the creation or removal of these cookies. More information about these cookies can be found on the relevant third party website.
www.accountit-4u.co.uk Social Sharing Tools
www.accountit-4u.co.uk also allows the ability to embed social sharing tools. These tools allow users to easily share site content or links back to pages of interest over the popular social networks. These networks can set cookies when logged in to help streamline the sharing of this content. www.accountit-4u.co.uk does not control the creation or removal of these cookies. More information about these cookies can be found on the relevant third party website.
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