Cookie Policy for the IMRG knowledgebase

About our cookies – supporting your informed choice

Please note: this is our initially policy and we would ask that you consider this as our 1st stage of achieving privacy compliance for all visitors to our site (incl. opt in/out). There is a degree of confusion around what is currently considered consent for cookies - and this it likely to remain the case for a little while yet – so here at IMRG Limited we are not just addressing the legal compliance aspects, we also believe in open and transparent business operations.

Apart from the additional information provided by this update, the operation of the http://theknowledgebase.imrg.org/ website has not changed or being modified. The detail contained within this page is provided to ensure your are fully aware of the ‘cookies’ we have in use, allowing you to make an informed choice about your continue acceptance of them.

We are currently examining all elements of our web operations and working on a 3 stage approach to meet the EU guidelines relating to protecting your privacy online – we want you to be 100% confident in using our site, and for you to be more than satisfied that your privacy is of the upmost importance to us.

The 1st stage is all about us providing you with the detail around the cookies we use. The 2nd stage is about internal change across our business - to educate staff as to the importance and understanding of online privacy, together with the updating of our internal policies and procedures. The 3rd stage is ensuing that all of our suppliers ((internal and external) disclose the detail of any likely impact that their products and services could have on your privacy. There are a number of areas of our business under review and, where required, we may change our operating practices, technology, terms and conditions (mobile, email etc.).

Currently across www.imrg.org we make use of cookies to help manage the site and your visitor experience. These cookies may be used to collect analytics of non-personal visitor activity outlines, manage user logins and personal preferences, provide relevant or timely information to you or offer focused advertisements.

Cookies set across our site, set by our 3rd party partners or us, can be in the form of session or persistent cookies, and may use different technologies, such as JavaScript or Flash. If you would like to ‘opt out’ of the cookies set by our site, this can be accomplished on a cookie-by-cookie basis subject to browser settings. You may limit site operation or functions if you limit the cookies.

To ensure you are fully informed of all the cookies we are using (to the point of the last review), our site is independently audited by Cookie Reports Limited - in total 2 pages were reviewed on 2015-10-24.

If you have any further questions, would like any further clarification around our use of cookies or wish to discuss how we are embracing online privacy, please email us at insight@imrg.org.

Cookies for IMRG

	Name of cookie	Type of cookie	Expiry period	Purpose	Level of privacy/tracking	Company	Description
:	Name of cookie: PHPSESSID	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Expiry period:	Purpose: Your visit	Level of privacy/tracking: Low to none	Company: The PHP Group	Description: Stores session data during a website visit, issued by a PHP application, which is a Web Application framework for building websites, produced by The PHP Group.
:	Name of cookie: __atuvc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Stores the result of code executed by AddThis to maintain a consistent counter when content is shared.
:	Name of cookie: __atuvs	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 30 minutes	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Low to none	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Stores the result of code executed by AddThis to maintain a consistent counter when content is shared.
:	Name of cookie: __utma	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Analytics	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: Google Analytics, Google Inc.	Description: Collects data such as number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. This information is used by Google Analytics.
:	Name of cookie: __utmb	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 30 minutes	Purpose: Analytics	Level of privacy/tracking: Low to none	Company: Google Analytics, Google Inc.	Description: Takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate how long a website visit takes.
:	Name of cookie: __utmc	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Expiry period:	Purpose: Analytics	Level of privacy/tracking: Low to none	Company: Google Analytics, Google Inc.	Description: Takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate how long a website visit takes.
:	Name of cookie: __utmt*	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 10 minutes	Purpose: Analytics	Level of privacy/tracking: Low to none	Company: Google Analytics, Google Inc.	Description: This cookie is not normally present in a default configuration of the tracking code. The __utmt cookie passes the information provided via the _setVar() method, which you use to create a custom user segment. This string is then passed to the Analytics servers in the GIF request URL via the utmccparameter. This cookie is only written if you have added the_setVar() method for the tracking code on your website page.
:	Name of cookie: __utmz	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 6 months	Purpose: Analytics	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: Google Analytics, Google Inc.	Description: Collects data about where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from. Used by Google Analytics.
:	Name of cookie: __unam	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 8 months, 3 weeks	Purpose: Social networking (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: ShareThis, ShareThis Inc.	Description: Stores a "click-stream" for each website visitor, including the pages viewed and the time on each of the pages. Used by social networking platform ShareThis Inc. which offers online services and applications that allow users to share content on the Web more easily.
:	Name of cookie: bt2?	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Keeps an anonymised record of parts of the site that has been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site. Normally used on shop pages to recommend other products.
:	Name of cookie: di2?	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Records user sharing and social activity, on behalf of AddThis which is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. AddThis is a content sharing platform which gives end users a way to share content across the social web, and provides analytics to publishers.
:	Name of cookie: dt	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 month	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Records user sharing and social activity, on behalf of AddThis which is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. AddThis is a content sharing platform which gives end users a way to share content across the social web, and provides analytics to publishers.
:	Name of cookie: loc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years, 3 weeks	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Records user geographic location, on behalf of AddThis which is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. AddThis is a content sharing platform which gives end users a way to share content across the social web, and provides analytics to publishers.
:	Name of cookie: uid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Provides a uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID. AddThis, owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies, uses this information to give end users a way to share content across the social web, and provide publishers with in-depth analytics.
:	Name of cookie: uvc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Measures how often AddThis see a user. AddThis, owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies, uses this information to give end users a way to share content across the social web, and provide publishers with in-depth analytics.
:	Name of cookie: vc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Measures how often AddThis see a user. AddThis, owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies, uses this information to give end users a way to share content across the social web, and provide publishers with in-depth analytics.
:	Name of cookie: xtc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: AddThis, LLC	Description: Records user sharing and social activity, on behalf of AddThis which is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies. AddThis is a content sharing platform which gives end users a way to share content across the social web, and provides analytics to publishers.
:	Name of cookie: U	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 10 years	Purpose: Advertising (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: domainprivacygroup.com	Description: Collects unidentifiable data to an unidentifiable company for unknown purposes. The companys identity is guarded by Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
:	Name of cookie: u	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Advertising (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Aggregate Knowledge, Neustar, Inc.	Description: Used for analytics and online behavioral advertising purposes including real time targeting and consumer profiling functionality on advertisers’ and publishers’ websites.
:	Name of cookie: uuid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 5 years	Purpose: Advertising (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Aggregate Knowledge, Neustar, Inc.	Description: Unique user ID or OPTOUT if for opt-out. Used for analytics and online behavioral advertising purposes including real time targeting and consumer profiling functionality on advertisers’ and publishers’ websites.
:	Name of cookie: c	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: BidSwitch, Switch Concepts Ltd	Description: Stores the timestamp of the user first encountered in our system and is used for determining whether we want to cookie-sync this user or not.
:	Name of cookie: tuuid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: BidSwitch, Switch Concepts Ltd	Description: Stores the unique ID assigned by BidSwitch to every user we see for tracking purposes. If the user opts out by calling bidswitch opt-out endpoint this cookie stores the value "opt-out" and no tracking is conducted.
:	Name of cookie: ck	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 5 years	Purpose: Social networking (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Affectv Ltd	Description: Used by Affectv Ltd, a Social Targeting company who work with hundreds of websites and social media sites globally to display ads and video ads for users based on their internet browsing. The aim is to make display and video ads more relevant for users to enhance their web browsing experience.
:	Name of cookie: oo	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 5 years	Purpose: Social networking (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Affectv Ltd	Description: Used by Affectv Ltd, a Social Targeting company who work with hundreds of websites and social media sites globally to display ads and video ads for users based on their internet browsing. The aim is to make display and video ads more relevant for users to enhance their web browsing experience.
:	Name of cookie: pt	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 month	Purpose: Social networking (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Affectv Ltd	Description: Used by Affectv Ltd, a Social Targeting company who work with hundreds of websites and social media sites globally to display ads and video ads for users based on their internet browsing. The aim is to make display and video ads more relevant for users to enhance their web browsing experience.
:	Name of cookie: lidc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 day	Purpose: Social networking (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: LinkedIn Corporation	Description: Set by social networking platform LinkedIn Corporation when you load web pages that include a panel inviting you to Follow us.
:	Name of cookie: acs	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 180 days	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Media6Degrees Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data on behalf of social advertising company Media6Degrees Inc.. Used to analyse the user's browsing behaviour for targeted advertising. Can be set through an AddThis component.
:	Name of cookie: cckz	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 10 minutes	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: Media6Degrees Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data on behalf of social advertising company Media6Degrees Inc.. Used to analyse the user's browsing behaviour for targeted advertising. Can be set through an AddThis component.
:	Name of cookie: clid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 180 days	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Media6Degrees Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data on behalf of social advertising company Media6Degrees Inc.. Used to analyse the user's browsing behaviour for targeted advertising. Can be set through an AddThis component.
:	Name of cookie: ipinfo	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 180 days	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Media6Degrees Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data on behalf of social advertising company Media6Degrees Inc.. Used to analyse the user's browsing behaviour for targeted advertising. Can be set through an AddThis component.
:	Name of cookie: na_tc	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 month	Purpose: Advertising (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Datalogix Inc.	Description: Collects data such as retail information, clickstream data that is analysed by Datalogix Inc. and combined with psychographics, demographics, and geography. The data is focused and personalized for individual marketers to acquire and maintain new customer relationships, and optimize purchasing.
:	Name of cookie: bl	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years, 5 months	Purpose: Under review	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: To be completed	Description:
:	Name of cookie: eud	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years, 5 months	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Rocket Fuel, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous user data on behalf of Advertising platform Rocket Fuel, Inc.. Information such as which ads have been shown and on which pages, whether the user clicked them, IP address, whether the user purchased an item from a partner of Rocket Fuel, Inc.. This information is used with proprietary technology to target audiences and deliver personalized ads.
:	Name of cookie: euds	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Expiry period:	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: Rocket Fuel, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous user data on behalf of Advertising platform Rocket Fuel, Inc.. Information such as which ads have been shown and on which pages, whether the user clicked them, IP address, whether the user purchased an item from a partner of Rocket Fuel, Inc.. This information is used with proprietary technology to target audiences and deliver personalized ads.
:	Name of cookie: rud	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years, 5 months	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Rocket Fuel, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous user data on behalf of Advertising platform Rocket Fuel, Inc.. Information such as which ads have been shown and on which pages, whether the user clicked them, IP address, whether the user purchased an item from a partner of Rocket Fuel, Inc.. This information is used with proprietary technology to target audiences and deliver personalized ads.
:	Name of cookie: ruds	Type of cookie: Session cookie	Expiry period:	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Medium	Company: Rocket Fuel, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous user data on behalf of Advertising platform Rocket Fuel, Inc.. Information such as which ads have been shown and on which pages, whether the user clicked them, IP address, whether the user purchased an item from a partner of Rocket Fuel, Inc.. This information is used with proprietary technology to target audiences and deliver personalized ads.
:	Name of cookie: u	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years, 5 months	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Rocket Fuel, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous user data on behalf of Advertising platform Rocket Fuel, Inc.. Information such as which ads have been shown and on which pages, whether the user clicked them, IP address, whether the user purchased an item from a partner of Rocket Fuel, Inc.. This information is used with proprietary technology to target audiences and deliver personalized ads.
:	Name of cookie: ck1	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 6 months	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: LiveRamp, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data relating to browsing navigation. Used by advertising platform LiveRamp who work with online partners to build advertisements for their website visitors and with publishers to display personalized advertisements.
:	Name of cookie: ids	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 5 months, 28 days	Purpose: Under review	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: To be completed	Description:
:	Name of cookie: rlas3	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 6 months	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: LiveRamp, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data relating to browsing navigation. Used by advertising platform LiveRamp who work with online partners to build advertisements for their website visitors and with publishers to display personalized advertisements.
:	Name of cookie: rtn1	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 6 months	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: LiveRamp, Inc.	Description: Collects anonymous data relating to browsing navigation. Used by advertising platform LiveRamp who work with online partners to build advertisements for their website visitors and with publishers to display personalized advertisements.
:	Name of cookie: UID	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 year	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: ScorecardResearch, Full Circle Studies, Inc	Description: Collects information such as when a user visited a website, what page of the website it was, title of the web page, IP address. This information is used by ScorecardResearch, a service of Full Circle Studies, Inc., a part of the comScore, Inc. market research community. By analysing general visitation patterns and conducting surveys, ScorecardResearch is able to help companies better understand the likes and dislikes of consumers.
:	Name of cookie: UIDR	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 year	Purpose: Advertising (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: ScorecardResearch, Full Circle Studies, Inc	Description: Collects information such as when a user visited a website, what page of the website it was, title of the web page, IP address. This information is used by ScorecardResearch, a service of Full Circle Studies, Inc., a part of the comScore, Inc. market research community. By analysing general visitation patterns and conducting surveys, ScorecardResearch is able to help companies better understand the likes and dislikes of consumers.
:	Name of cookie: __stid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 1 year	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: ShareThis Inc.	Description: Stores a unique ID for each website visitor. Used by social networking platform ShareThis Inc. which offers online services and applications that allow users to share content on the Web more easily.
:	Name of cookie: __uset	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 4 hours	Purpose: Social networking (high impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: ShareThis Inc.	Description: Used by ShareThis Inc. to determine whether a user can accept cookies. ShareThis Inc. is a social networking platform which offers online services and applications that allow users to share content on the Web more easily.
:	Name of cookie: pid	Type of cookie: Persistent cookie	Expiry period: 2 years	Purpose: Social networking (low impact)	Level of privacy/tracking: Potential	Company: Twitter, Inc	Description: Collects anonymous data and monitors how users navigate and interact with the Site and Services of real-time information networking platform Twitter, Inc.. The aim is to customize and improve the Services.

Shopping cart / transactional areas

Parts of our site may make use of a shopping cart or web forms technology that at times has to make use of cookies. Any used on a permanent basis are detailed in the cookies table. From time to time we (temporarily) add functionally to our site e.g. surveys, comparisons etc, that may also use cookies. Often these come from 3^rd parties – we will endeavour to ensure full disclosure of any cookies is made.

Use of Flash files

Across this website we can make use of Flash files. These files present information, allow integration with third parties (such as YouTube) and can offer a richer online experience. Flash files can however store cookie-like data on your computer, known as "Local Shared Objects".

We have strived to identify any Flash elements that are likely to set cookies but, at this point in time, we cannot guarantee the status of every Flash file. Adobe offers a tool to monitor, prevent and remove "Flash cookies" — Global Storage Settings panel.

Cookie Policy for the IMRG knowledgebase

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