Cookies
A cookie is string of text information that is placed on your computer via your web browser. It can store helpful information for the site owners that help them understand your use of a website.
What cookies are used on this site uses and why
Essential cookies
Cookie preference
This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on ansa.co.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
Analytics cookies
Google Analytics
Like many websites, we use Google Analytics to help us to identify the way in which our website is used so we can try to improve it. The following cookies are set by Google analytics:
- _utma
- _utmb
- _utmc
- _utmz
- _utma
These are all used to collect non-personal information about how visitors use our site in terms of the numbers of visitors, the pages that they visit and the website they came from.
Marketing cookies
- _uetvid_uetsid - this cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site
- _gid - this cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited
- _fbp - used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisersplayer
- _ga - this cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service
- _gcl_au - used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
- continuous_play_v3 - this cookie keeps a booking engine running
Vimeo videos
We have embedded privacy-enhanced Vimeo videos on the site. Privacy-enhanced mode allows us to embed Vimeo videos without using cookies that track viewing behaviour. This means that when loading the page, no activity is collected to personalise the viewing experience. If a viewer clicks or taps to play the video, the following cookies are enabled:
- vuid and player - these cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites
How to change cookie settings
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then selecting close. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
Further Reading