A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
The cookies we use fall into the following categories:
The cookies we use are:
Google Analytics is a tool that monitors websites and allows us to see volumes of website visitors, their source, and to analyse how our website is viewed and navigated. This allows optimisation of the content and pages on www.cavanaghkelly.com and the marketing programs that drive traffic to the website. Google Analytics does not store any personal information about website visitors, but it does use persistent cookies to identify repeat visitors. You may universally opt-out of all Google Analytics tracking used by all websites by visiting the following url https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Inspectlet allows us to review how our visitors use our site and inform us if they are having any difficulties, this enables us to optimise the content of our pages and reduce the amount of time spent looking for items across the site. Inspectlet does not store any personal information about website visitors and doesn't use persistent cookies to identify repeat visitors. If you would like to opt-out of this please email the Data Protection Manager data.protection@cavanaghkelly.com.
| Used By | Name(s) | Type | Description | Justification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Anlaytics | _utma | Analytics | These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies our visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. | 3rd party cookie which does not personal store user data |
| Inspectlet | __insp_sid | Essential | IIS Session Code | Standard session cookie served by the web server. |
| __insp_ref | Analytics | Referral tracker | Does not store user data, only referral site. | |
| __insp_scpt | Essential | Session tracker | 3rd party tool used to track site usage which is only used by Inspectlet to track for website issues. | |
| __insp_nv | Session | Widget | 3rd party tool used to track site usage which is only used by Inspectlet to track for website issues. | |
| __insp_wid | Analytics | Widget | 3rd party tool used to track site usage which is only used by Inspectlet to track for website issues. | |
| __insp_identity | Analytics | Anonymous Visitor ID | Standard session cookie served by the web server. | |
| __insp_uid | Essential | Long Term User Identifier | Used to store long term analytics only. |