Cookie Policy

Cookies are small parcels of information routinely used by websites, such as an option you’ve selected or a page you’ve visited. Most cookies expire as soon as your session expires, unless a user has self-selected options and book-marked pages within our website. Cookies do not collect any personal identifying information.

Most browsers allow you to manage cookies saved on your computer.

Why we use cookies

We use cookies and other similar files on our website to:

Give you a better experience.
Enable us to use content such as videos on our website, via third-party cookies.
Remember some of your choices, such as your preferences.
Embed third party tools such as forms, maps and videos.
Show you reminder adverts on platforms such as Facebook when you leave our website and to help us understand how successful our adverts are, to keep costs down.
Provide us with aggregate analytics about how people are using our website.

Your cookie choices

You can manage the cookies on our website in your browser settings.

All browsers let you manage which cookies you have on or off. You can usually change your settings through the preferences or tools options. If you want to prevent new cookies being stored and/or delete existing cookies, here are some links for each of the most common browsers:

You can also learn more about browser settings and cookies in general on the About Cookies website.

Cookies we use on ibduk.org

Statistics: Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie name & purpose	Provider	Expiry
_ga Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	ibduk.org	2 years
_gid Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	ibduk.org	1 day
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress This cookie is used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice.	ibduk.org	1 day
_hjFirstSeen This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website.	ibduk.org	1 day
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample Used to detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics.	ibduk.org	1 day
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_# Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.	ibduk.org	1 day
_hjSession_# Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.	ibduk.org	1 day
_hjSessionUser_# Collects statistics on the visitor's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.	ibduk.org	1 year
Collect Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.	google-analytics.com	Session

Marketing: Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Cookie name & purpose	Provider	Expiry
_fbp Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.	ibduk.org	3 months
i/jot/embeds Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers.	twitter.com	Session

Unclassified: Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

Cookie name & purpose	Provider	Expiry
CachedCssMTime Unclassified	ibduk.org	7 days