Cookie Policy.
Last updated: 6 April 2021
We use cookies to improve your experience on the Website, and to recommend content that may be of interest to you. You can find out more below about what cookies are, the cookies we use and how to switch them off.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a text file containing small amounts of information which is downloaded to your device when you access a website. The text file is then sent back to our server each time your browser requests a page from the server. This enables us to operate the Website more effectively and load the Website so that it reflects your personal preferences, based on your previous browsing on the Website as well as keywords we may be able to gather from URLs of other webpages from which you accessed the Website. Cookies can also allow us to do various other things, as explained below.
What cookies do we use?
When you visit the Website, the following types of cookies may be downloaded to your device:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are cookies that are required for the administration and operation of the Website. Some cookies that we use are necessary for the Website to function properly and to enable you to move around the Website and use its features.
Functional Cookies (Useful Features)
We may use functional cookies that allow us to remember choices you have made on the Website so as to provide you with a more enhanced user experience by delivering content specific to your interests. We may also use cookies to embed certain social posts on the Website.
Analytical and Performance Cookies (Visit Tracking)
We may use analytics service providers for website traffic analysis and reporting. Analytics service providers generate statistical and other information about the use of the Website by using cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how often visitors return to the Website, how long they stay and how visitors move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Website works, for example, it helps users to find what they are looking for easily. The information generated relating to the Website may be used to create reports about the use of the site and the analytics service provider will store this information.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
These cookies record your visit to gpissolutions.com, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed to other sites. We will use this information to try and make the Website (and other sites that you visit) more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with others, such as other GPIS entities and carefully selected third parties, for this purpose.
We work with technology partners to support the Website and to provide you with relevant information about the products and services of other GPIS entities both on the Website and on affiliated sites or sites within the advertising networks we work with. We may use cookies on the Website to help us to place relevant GPIS entity advertising on third party websites when you visit those sites. If you are not happy for us to do this, please see the section of this policy titled “How do I turn cookies off?” below.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below:
Google Analytics Cookies: Analytical and Performance Cookies
Used for serving and recording clicks for certain links on the website.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga _gid |
2 years 24 hours |
Used for visitor identification |
| _gac_UA-XXXXXXX | 90 days | Used to hold campaign information |
| _gat | 1 minute | Used for the throttling of data to Google Analytics |
| DV HSID SID SIDCC |
2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years |
Used to ensure security and privacy |
| NID SSID |
90 days 2 years |
Used to store visitor preferences |
| UULE | At end of session | Used to store visitor geolocation information |
YouTube Cookies: Functional Cookies
Used for embedding social posts onto the website.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| YSC VISITOR_INFO1 use_hitbox LOGIN_INFO |
At end of session 6 months At end of session 2 years |
Used to gather information about visitors and video usage and allow the embedding of videos on the site |
| PREF | 10 years | Used to store visitor preferences |
| GPS | A few seconds | Used to gather information about visitors and video usage and allow the embedding of videos on the site |
| IDE test_cookie |
1 year A few seconds 2 years |
[As part of DoubleClick] Used to gather information about visitors and video usage and allow the embedding of videos on the site |
Facebook: Advertising and Targeting Cookies, Strictly Necessary Cookies
We use Facebook to embed content such as video and posts onto the website. We also use Facebook to advertise to you based on your website history.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| act c_user datr locale sb spin wd xs |
90 days 90 days 2 years 1 week 1 year 1 day 1 week 90 days |
Used for storing visitor data, security, personalising Facebook and integrating content |
| fr | 90 days | Used for delivering advertising |
| presence | At end of session | Used for storing Facebook chat information |
Instagram Cookies: Strictly Necessary Cookies
We use Instagram to embed content such as video and posts onto the website.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| csrftoken ig_cb ig_did mid rur urlgen |
1 year 100 years 10 years At end of session At end of session At end of session |
Used for integrating Instagram posts onto the website |
LinkedIn Cookies: Strictly Necessary Cookies
We use LinkedIn to embed content such as video and posts onto the website.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _guid amcv li_oatml li_sugr lang liap lissc |
2 months 2 years 30 days 3 months At end of session 1 year 1 year |
Used to allow sign in, track behaviour, record demographics and gather insights |
| aam_uuid BizoID BizoUserMatchHistory UserMatchHistory |
30 days 6 months 30 days 30 days |
Used for LinkedIn Insights and Advertising analysis |
| bcookie / bscookie lidc |
2 years 1 day |
Used to ensure security, privacy and routing |
| DSID UID |
2 weeks 2 years |
[As part of Scorecard Research] Used for LinkedIn Insights and Advertising analysis |
Twitter Cookies: Strictly Necessary Cookies
We use Twitter to embed content such as video and posts onto the website.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| tfw_exp guest_id remember_checked_on kdt eu cn external_referer syndication_guest_id |
15 days 6 months 6 months 1 year 6 months 6 months 7 days 2 years |
Used for storing visitor data, identifying visitors and security |
| Personalization_id ct0 |
2 years At end of session |
Used to allow the sharing of content through Twitter |
| rweb_optin ads_prefs dnt |
1 year 10 years 15 days |
Used to stores preferences over advertising, tracking and Twitter functionality |
gpissolutions.com: Strictly Necessary Cookies, Functional Cookies
These cookies are used to make the site function properly and store your cookie preferences.
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| has_js | At end of session | Used to store whether the user has JavaScript enabled |
| user_cookie_preference | 1 year | Used to store cookie preferences |
Do we use any third-party cookies?
Because the GPIS Group has a strong presence on various social networks, we try to make it as easy as possible to share content and to see what content is popular on those networks. We add buttons to allow people to easily share to those networks. When we include these social ‘plugins’, it gives those sites the flexibility to use their own cookies. They can’t read any cookies we set from the Website, and we can’t read any cookies they set, but it lets them do the same kind of traffic measuring that we do on the rest of the Website (and it also lets them know whether you’re logged into their site).
Other sites and services (including, for example, advertising networks, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services and content recommendation engines) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical and performance cookies or advertising and targeting cookies and we use these to improve your experience on the Website.
The following third parties may use cookies:
- YouTube