Cookies
Like most websites, Gridsource use cookies to help provide the best possible experience to all our visitors. The information below explains what cookies are and how our website uses them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
You decide how your computer deals with cookies through your browser settings. See your browser’s help pages for more information on how to block or remove cookies.
What Cookies are used on the Gridsource website?
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
| __atuvs | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. | 30 minutes | Functional |
| loc | This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. | 1 year | Advertisement |
| __atuvc | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. | 1 year | Functional |
| _gat_gtag_UA_120591209_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| uvc | The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service. | 1 year | Analytics |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics |
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
| __atuvs | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. | 30 minutes | Functional |
| loc | This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located. | 1 year | Advertisement |
| __atuvc | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. | 1 year | Functional |
| _gat_gtag_UA_120591209_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. | 1 minute | Analytics |
| uvc | The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service. | 1 year | Analytics |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics |
| Cookie | Description | Duration | |
| allow_cookies | Gridsource | Lets us know that you have consented to allow our website to use cookies. | 90 Days |
| _atuvs
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Add This (shares to social media) | This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. | 30 minutes
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| _loc
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Add This (shares to social media) | This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.
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1 year
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| uvc
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Add This (shares to social media) | The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service.
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1 year
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| _ga _gat _gtag | Google uses these cookies to distinguish users.
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1 minute – 2 years
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| _gid
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Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day
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| _ga
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Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
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2 years
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| __utma | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 Years |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. | End of Browser |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 Months |
| __utmv | Google Analytics | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 2 Years |
If you have any questions about this cookie policy, please write to us by:
Email – info@gridsource.co.uk
Post – Gridsource, Olney Office Park, 25 Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP
There is further information regarding cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org