BFREPA Cookie policy
Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier.
If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in. Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’).
What is in a cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.
What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set
Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their computer or mobile device a bit intrusive, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party without them knowing. Although this is generally quite harmless you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions of that website. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to set your cookie permissions.
TYPES OF COOKIES
First party cookies
First party cookies are set by the website, you are visiting and they can only be read by that site.
Third party cookies
Third party cookies are set by a different organisation to the owner of the website you are visiting. For example, the website might use a third party analytics company who will set their own cookie to perform this service. The website you are visiting may also contain content embedded from, for example YouTube or Flickr, and these sites may set their own cookies.
More significantly, a website might use a third party advertising network to deliver targeted advertising on their website. These may also have the capability to track your browsing across different sites.
Session cookies
Session Cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies
This type of cookie is saved on your computer for a fixed period (usually a year or longer) and is not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies are used where we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, we use this type of cookie to store your preferences, so that they are remembered for the next visit
Cookies we use
Our Site uses cookies from:
- Youtube (to show videos)
- Google Analytics (to enable us to better understand the traffic to the website)
- Facebook (to enable social media interaction)
- Twitter (to enable social media Interaction)
- and a few cookies which enable our site to function.
NECESSARY COOKIES
CookieConsent
Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
Provider: bfrepa.co.uk
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 1 year
MARKETING COOKIES
GPS
Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 1 day
IDE
Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
Provider: doubleclick.net
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 1 year
PREF
Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 8 months
test_cookie
Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies.
Provider: double-click.net
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 1 day
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 179 days
YSC
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session
yt-remote-cast-installed
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session
yt-remote-connected-devices
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Persistent
yt-remote-device-id
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Persistent
yt-remote-fast-check-period
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session
yt-remote-session-app
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session
yt-remote-session-name
Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Provider: youtube.com
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session