Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better understand the users’ experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
Measuring Website Usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies in accordance with Google’s privacy policy:-
Universal Analytics
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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_ga |
This helps us count how many people visit the site by tracking if you’ve visited before |
2 years |
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_gid |
This helps us count how many people visit the site by tracking if you’ve visited before |
24 hours |
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_gat |
Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made |
10 minutes |
Google Analytics
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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_utma |
Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to the site or to a certain page |
2 years |
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_utmb |
This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on the site |
30 minutes |
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_utmc |
This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser |
When you close your browser |
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_utmz |
This tells us how you reached the site (for example from another website or a search engine) |
6 months |
Email Mailing List & Marketing Messages
We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers about relevant legal sector and digital marketing insights and news. Users can subscribe through an online automated process. Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed and stored in accordance with the regulations named in this policy. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time via the footer of sent marketing messages.
Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement and already stored subscriber data.
Our email marketing service provider is Mautic and you can read their privacy policy here: https://www.mautic.org/privacy-policy/
Call Tracking and Recording
We use telephone tracking numbers to link a user’s call to the marketing channel that they originated from. This is done using cookies - you can choose to decline cookies, as explained above, if you would prefer not to be tracked. The following cookies are set for this purpose:-
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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ictf_master |
Unique Visitor Ref - Stores the unique Visitor Reference; One of the cookies used to track phone calls for the purpose of linking a user’s call to the marketing channel that they originated from. |
10 years |
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ictf_il2295 |
Contains per Installation tracking source cache; One of the cookies used to track phone calls for the purpose of linking a user’s call to the marketing channel that they originated from. |
10 years |
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ictf_in2295 |
Contains per Installation number replacement source cache; One of the cookies used to track phone calls for the purpose of linking a user’s call to the marketing channel that they originated from. |
10 years |
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ict_0 |
Contains 3rd party tracking and number replacement source cache; One of the cookies used to track phone calls for the purpose of linking a user’s call to the marketing channel that they originated from. |
10 years |
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ict_master |
Unique Visitor Ref - Stores the unique Visitor Reference;One of the cookies used to track phone calls for the purpose of linking a user’s call to the marketing channel that they originated from. |
10 years |
Google reCAPTCHA
We use Google reCAPTCHA on our site to reduce spam, with the following cookies being set:-
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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These are essential site cookies, used by the google reCAPTCHA to reduce spam on our site. These cookies use an unique identifier for tracking purposes. |
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PREF |
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NID |
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HSID |
When you close your browser |
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APISID |
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SID |
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Mautic
We use Mautic cookies to detect how visitors engage with the website, in order to improve the information we provide on the website or through marketing campaigns. Visitors that choose not to engage with any website form or email-link will remain anonymous.
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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Mautic cookies (“mautic_refer_id, mautic_session_id, mautic_session_name”) |
These cookies are used to detect how visitors engage with the website, in order to improve the information we provide on the website or through marketing campaigns. Visitors that choose not to engage with any website form or email-link will remain anonymous. |
2 years |
Joomla
We use cookies as an essential functioning part of our Content Management System (Joomla) as follows:-
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Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
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Joomla Sessions Cookie (joomla_user_state) |
Our website is powered by the Joomla web Content Management System (CMS). By default, Joomla CMS automatically installs a cookie into your web browser as soon as you visit this website. Below, this cookie is referred to as a "session" cookie; that means, the cookie lasts only as long as your current session when using our website. |
When you close your browser |
