Cookie policy

Cookies and tracking

A cookie is a piece of data about a website that is stored in your web browser. Cookies are often used to store choices about how you use the site to improve your user experience. The UKSA website makes use of cookies in this way. They only give us information about the number of visitors to our site.

 

Most browsers will allow you to control how cookies are handled, whether they are accepted and how long they are stored for. All browsers do this differently, but if you’re concerned about privacy and security then please have a look in the ‘help’ documentation for your particular browser.

 

Essential Cookies

We have currently three essential cookies to enable the site to work as detailed below, one of which is registering whether you’re allowing non essential cookies or not.

 

Non-essential Cookies

We also make use of some simple image files provided by suppliers, such Google Analytics, to help measure the usage of our site. Google Analytics is a web analytics service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies in order to analyse your use of this website.

 

The information about your use of this website collected using cookies is usually transferred to and stored on servers of Google Inc. in the US. Prior to the transfer to the US, Google masks and thereby anonymises your IP address within the territory of the EU or of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and masked by Google servers in the US.

 

On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not combine your IP address with any other data held by Google.

 

You may refuse to have cookies stored on your device by appropriately configuring your browser or by using a privacy plugin. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB

 

Further Information: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ and https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

 

Other tracking – we have embedded our social media content on instagram, facebook and twitter in order to show you our latest posts from them.

 

If you are logged into one of those sites, they may be able to identify that you are using our site, even though on the last check the embedded code did not leave any cookies.

 

Cookie details

Google analytics cookies

Cookie Name: _ga

Data Stored: A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your browser, the times and dates that you interacted with the site recently and the marketing materials or referring pages that led you to the site.

Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Source: Google Analytics

Expires: 2 years after your last visit to the website. The moment you close your browser.

 

Cookie Name: _gat

Data Stored: A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your browser.

Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

Source: Google Analytics

Expires: Session – The moment you close your browser.

 

Cookie Name: _gid

Data Stored: A random unique number or string of letters and numbers to identify your browser, the times and dates that you interacted with the site recently and the marketing materials or referring pages that led you to the site.

Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Source: Google Analytics

Expires: Session – The moment you close your browser.

 

Our site may currently use the following strictly necessary cookies.

Cookie Name: CloudFront-Signature

Data Stored: A user’s signature to prevent unauthorized file dowloads

Purpose: Amazon Cloudfront to identify user eligible for download

Expires: Session – The moment you close your browser.

Source: squirrelaccord.uk

 

Cookie Name: CloudFront-Policy

Data Stored: A CloudFront download policy to prevent unauthorized file dowloads

Purpose: Amazon Cloudfront to identify resource eligible for download

Expires: Session – The moment you close your browser.

Source: squirrelaccord.uk

 

Cookie Name: CloudFront-Key-Pair-Id

Data Stored: A CloudFront key pair

Purpose: Amazon Cloudfront to identify resource eligible for download

Expires: Session – The moment you close your browser.

Source: squirrelaccord.uk

 

Cookie Name: _cfduid

Data Stored: A CloudFront key pair

Purpose: Amazon Cloudfront to identify resource

Expires: Session – one year.

Source: squirrelaccord.uk

 

Cookie Name: lang

Data Stored: A CloudFront key pair

Purpose: Amazon Cloudfront to identify language

Expires: Session – The moment you close your browser.

Source: squirrelaccord.uk

 

Other essential cookies.

Cookie Name: Cookie Consent status

Data Stored: allow or deny

Purpose: to remember your decisions on that browser, so the warning dialog isn’t asking you every page

Expires: Session – one year.

Source: squirrelaccord.uk