Cookie policy

 

Last updated March 2022.

This Cookie Policy explains how "IDPP Consulting Ltd", doing business as "IDPP" (“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our“) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at "https://www.idpp.com" (“Websites“). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, IDPP) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

The specific types of first and third party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit https://optout.aboutads.info/ or https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

 

Name

Category

Goal

Cookie expiration time

Provider

uvc

Advertising

Cookie set by AddThis. These plug-ins allow you to set bookmarks or share interesting content with other users. The plug-ins allow you to interact with social networks and other users so that we can improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user.

1 year 4 weeks 2 days 23 hours

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loc

Advertising

This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.

1 year 4 weeks 2 days 23 hours

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__atuvs

Functional

This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service.

30 minutes

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__atuvc

Functional

This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.

1 year 4 weeks 2 days 23 hours

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gdsid

Unclassified

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6 hours

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gdId

Unclassified

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9 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day

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cass

Unclassified

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2 hours

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asst

Unclassified

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30 minutes

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alr

Unclassified

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30 minutes

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__cf_bm

Necessary

The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots.

30 minutes

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__cf_bm

Necessary

The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots.

30 minutes

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SameSite

Unclassified

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30 seconds

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JSESSIONID

Necessary

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.

6 hours

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GSESSIONID

Unclassified

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2 hours

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AWSALBCORS

Necessary

Required for load balancing service and ensures that a single user is assigned to a single website host

1 week

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AWSALB

Necessary

Registers which server cluster serves the visitor. This is used in conjunction with load balancing to optimise the user experience.

1 week

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ADRUM_BTa

Unclassified

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30 seconds

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_gid

Performance

Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics.

1 day 27 seconds

Google, Inc

_gat_*****

Performance

Set by Google Analytics to control the request rate.

1 minute

Google LLC

_ga

Performance

Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics.

2 years 27 seconds

Google, Inc

PHPSESSID

Necessary

Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages.

Session

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G_ENABLED_IDPS

Functional

Persistent Cookie, used by Google services to function properly on the website

7977 years 9 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours 7 minutes 25 seconds

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cookiefirst-id

Necessary

This cookie contains your unique ID so CookieFirst can identify unique visitors to this website.

11 months 3 weeks 5 days

Cookie First

cookiefirst-consent

Necessary

This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily.

11 months 3 weeks 5 days

Cookie First

 

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

Websites may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention and for other site operations.

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Websites. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by them using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at marketing@idpp.com or by post to:

Operations Manager, IDPP Consulting Ltd. 65 Petty France Westminster London SW1H 9EU

 

Our UK offices

Horsham
The Courtyard, 30 Worthing Road
Horsham, RH12 1SL

Chester, UK
Ground Floor, Honeycomb East (Purple),
Chester Business Park,
CH4 9QN

London, UK
65 Petty France,
London,
SW1H 9EU

Swindon, UK
Regus, Windmill Hill Business Park,
Swindon,
SN5 6QR