Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Selectabase Limited, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, www.selectabase.co.uk (our website). This Cookies Policy is effective from 1st May 2018.

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.

For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.

For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.

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 About cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

 Essential and non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

  • used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
  • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

Session and persistent cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First and third party cookies

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.

First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.

Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit All About Cookies.org

List of cookies used

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

Name of Cookie
 		 Essential or Non-essential? Type of cookie First or Third party? Session or Persistent? Expiry Time Purpose
PHPSESSID Essential User state preservation related First party Session End of browser session Preserves user session state across page requests. Essential for site operation, including basket and checkout functionality.
ASP.NET_SessionID Essential User state preservation related First party Session End of browser session Preservers user state across webpages.
DotNetOpenAuth.WebServerClient.XSRF-Session Essential System related First party Persistent 1 day Cookie allowing transparent login between Selectabase and Prospectlists.
Token Essential System related First party Persistent 1 day Cookie allowing transparent login between Selectabase and Prospectlists.
wl Essential System related First party Persistent 1 day Prospectlist site settings and user ID related cookie.
DEBUG_MSSQL Non-essential Functional First party Persistent 1 day Cookie used for system debugging.
DEBUG_MYSQL Non-essential Functional First party Persistent 1 day Cookie used for system debugging.
site_referer Non-essential Functional First party Persistent 1 day System cookie used for storing referrer information.
contact_referer Non-essential Functional First party Persistent 1 day System cookie used for storing referrer information.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary Essential Functional First party Persistent 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Non Necessary”.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary Essential Functional First party Persistent 11 months This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”.
viewed_cookie_policy Essential Functional First party Persistent 11 months The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
_gat Non-essential Functional First party Session End of browser session Used by Google Analytics to throttle requests received by users.
_ga Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 2 years Google Analytics cookie used to generate statistical information on the use of a website by distinguishing its users.
_gid Non-essential Analytical First party Session End of browser session Google Analytics cookie which registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_fbp Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 90 days Facebook Pixel collects data that helps us track conversions from Facebook ads, optimize ads, build targeted audiences for future ads.
MUID Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 1 year This is a Microsoft cookie that contains a GUID assigned to your browser. It gets set when you interact with a Microsoft property, including a UET beacon call or a visit to a Microsoft property through the browser.
_uetmsclkid Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 1 year This is the Microsoft Click ID, which is used to improve the accuracy of conversion tracking.
Note: UET sets a first-party cookie on your site’s domain for this parameter. When auto-tagging of the Microsoft Click ID is enabled, the ad click information is generated at ad click time and appended to the landing page URL.
_uetsid Non-essential Analytical First party Session End of browser session This contains the session ID for a unique session on the site.
_uetvid Non-essential Analytical First party Persistent 1 year
UET assigns this unique, anonymized visitor ID, representing a unique visitor. UET stores this data in a first-party cookie.

Essential cookies

These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:

  • first party session cookies which preserve a user’s state across pages on the website. These cookies are essential for the website to operate, including its basket functionality. These cookies are PHPSESSID and NET_SessionID.
  • first party persistent cookies used to allow transparent logins between Selectabase and Prospectlists. These cookies are WebServerClient.XSRF-Session and Token and both expire after 1 day.
  • a first party persistent cookie used in connection with the website’s settings and user IDs. This cookie is called wl and expires after 1 day.

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.

How to opt out of essential cookies

Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.

You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.

For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Non-essential cookies

We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:

  • Functional cookies
  • Analytical (or performance) cookies

Functional cookies

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

  • a first party session cookie used to help Google Analytics manage the number of users on our website. This cookie is called _gat
  • first party persistent cookies used for system debugging. These cookies are DEBUG_MSSQL and DEBUG_MYSQL and both expire after 1 day.
  • first party persistent cookies used for storing referrer information. These cookies are site_referer and contact_referer and both expire after 1 day.

How to opt in or out from functional cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using functional cookies by turning on those functional cookies using our cookie control tool.

Analytical (or performance) cookies

Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on our website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:

  • Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, your location (based on your IP address). We use the following Google Analytics cookies on our website are: _ga which is a persistent cookie and expires after 2 years, and _gid which is a session cookie. We also use the Google Analytics cookie _gat, which is explained in more detail in the ‘functional cookies’ section above.More informationGoogle Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: Google Analytics’ privacy policyFor information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit Google’s information page.
  • Facebook Pixel allows user behaviour to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, which is why we are informing you, based on our knowledge of the situation. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes.The legal basis for the use of this service is Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR. You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by contacting the following address: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.Facebook is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active).

How to opt in or out from analytical cookies

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: GAOptOut
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies

Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Consent: you give your consent to the purposes for which we process your information using analytical cookies by turning on those functional cookies using our cookie control tool. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.selectabase.co.uk/privacy-policy

How to accept or reject cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below.

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.

You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting All About Cookies.org.

Accepting or rejecting cookies

Cookie control tool

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool.

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third-party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

Existing cookies

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: GAOptOut

Copyright

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