Cookies Policy
What cookies Mortgage Advice Bureau use and why
Cookies are small text files, which often include a unique identifier that is sent by a web server to your computer, mobile phone or any other internet enabled device (“device”) when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently and help provide us with business and marketing information to enable us to make informed decisions on the development of our websites.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential - Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
- Performance - Performance cookies help owners understand how the website is used by visitors. This information can then be used to improve the way the website works.
- Preference - Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
- Statistics - Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Marketing - Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
| Name | Description | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cf_bm | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Essential | 1 day |
| _RequestVerificationToken | Used to prevent CSRF attacks | Essential | Session |
| JSESSIONID | Used by metrics.responsetap.com to preserve user states across page requests | Essential | Session |
| rc::a | Used by Google to distinguish between humans and bots | Essential | Persistent |
| rc::b | Used by Google to distinguish between humans and bots | Essential | Session |
| rc::c | Used by Google to distinguish between humans and bots | Essential | Session |
| FontsLoaded | Used to inform the site that fonts have successfully loaded | Essential | Session |
| _grecaptcha | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Essential | Persistent |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Essential | 179 days |
| ARRAffinity | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Essential | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Essential | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Used to preserve the visitor's session state across page requests | Essential | Session |
| AWSALBTGCORS | Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | Essential | 6 days |
| CookieConsent | Used to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | Essential | 1 year |
| FontsLoaded | Used to keep track of special fonts used on the website for internal analysis. The cookie does not register any visitor data. | Essential | Session |
| rc::a | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. | Essential | Persistent |
| rc::b | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Essential | Session |
| rc::c | Used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Essential | Session |
| test | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | Essential | Persistent |
| _adiCookieCheck | Used to provide statistics of what pages the user has visited and how often an ad click leads to a sale or other actions | Statistics | Session |
| _at.hist.# | Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user's usage history of the AddThis sharing widget | Statistics | Persistent |
| _dc_gtm_UA-# | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | Statistics | 1 day |
| _ga | Used to register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Statistics | 2 years |
| _ga_# | Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. | Statistics | 2 years |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Statistics | 1 day |
| _gid | Used to generate statistical data on how visitor uses the website | Statistics | 1 day |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Used to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. | Statistics | 1 day |
| _hjFirstSeen | Used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website. | Statistics | 1 day |
| _hjid | Used to obtain data on visitor behaviour. | Statistics | 1 year / Persistent |
How to withdraw consent to, control, and/or delete cookies
It is possible to remove cookies or block them from recording this information. You also have the option of blocking third party cookies only.
This option is generally found within the Options menu then Privacy section of your particular browser. Each browser is slightly different and constantly updating.
For more information consult the Help menu of your browser. The links below provide information on how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
This information has been provided to show our commitment to legislation regarding cookie awareness so that you can understand what cookies we use and why we use them. This ensures transparency in the data collected on you.
Further information
http://www.allaboutcookies.org
This policy was last updated 2nd August 2022
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