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Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, which ones we use and your choices regarding how to manage them. We do update this policy from time to time so please do review this policy regularly.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies (also called HTTP cookies, web cookies, Internet cookies, or browser cookies) are small blocks of data created while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or device by their web browser. More than one cookie may be placed on a user’s device during a session and these help the website remember you and how you've used the site every time you come back.
For more information on cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org or aboutcookies.org.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?
We use a variety of types of cookies as described below:
- Necessary - Cookies that are essential to provide you with the service you have requested such as this website. The website cannot be used properly without the necessary cookies.
- Functional - Cookies that allow you to navigate the website and use our features, such as 'Add to Basket' and 'Add to Wishlist'.
- Personalisation - Cookies that remember your preferences (like your language or location), so we can provide a more personalised shopping experience.
- Analytics - Cookies that are used by online services to collect information about how people access them – such as, the number of users on a website, how long they stay on the site for, and what parts of the site they visit.
- Advertising - Cookies that are used to deliver ads relevant to you. They also limit the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
HOW WE USE COOKIES?
Where used, cookies are downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer’s hard drive. We may use cookies where appropriate to assist us in improving our website. We may gather information about your general internet use by using the cookie. Cookies assist us to distinguish you from other users of our website and to allow us to better serve you when you return to our website, and to monitor and analyse the usage of our website. Cookies also enable us and our third-party partners to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the onsite or customer experience through the provision of content, features, and advertisements. Cookies may collect personal data. For more information on how we process your personal data, please refer to our Privacy Notice.
THE COOKIES WE USE
COOKIE NAME | DESCRIPTION | DURATION | CATEGORY |
App.Session | Maintains session state for the current channel | Session | Necessary |
ASP.NET_SessionId | Maintains session state for ASP.NET | Session | Necessary |
App.CookieConsent | Maintains Cookie Consent between sessions. | Session | Necessary |
App.Authentication | Maintains authentication when a user is logged into the site. | Session | Necessary |
App.Persistent | Persists a users basket between sessions. | 30 days | Necessary |
App.ReceiptSignature | Improves the security of payments | 1 day | Necessary |
App.RecentlyViewedProducts | Records the products a user has viewed. | 30 days | Functional |
App.Popup | Records the popups the user has viewed. | 30 days | Functional |
Google Analytics cookies | |||
_ga | Counts how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years | Analytics |
_gid | Counts how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 24 hours | Analytics |
_gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property- id>. | 1 min | Analytics |
AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. | 30 seconds to 1 year | Analytics |
_gac_<property-id> | Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. | 90 days | Analytics |
Google Ads conversion (Details of the cookies can be found here) | |||
_gads | Enables Google to serve ads on third-party sites. | 13 months | Advertising |
_gac_ (prefix) | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and throttle request rates for advertising purposes. | 90 days | Advertising |
IDE | Used to personalize and measure the effectiveness of ads on sites and apps that partner with Google. | 13 months EEA UK / 24 months elsewhere | Advertising |
test_cookie | Checks if your browser accepts cookies. | Session | Necessary |
NID | Stores user preferences for Google ads and can be used to personalize ads shown to you. | 6 months | Advertising |
Microsoft Advertising | |||
MUID | A unique identifier assigned to your browser or device to track your interactions with Bing Ads and show you personalized ads. | 2 years | Advertising |
ANON | An anonymous identifier used to track your activity during a Bing Ads session. | Session | Advertising |
SRCHD | Records information about your recent search queries on Bing to better tailor ads to your interests. | 3 months | Advertising |
SRCHUID | A unique identifier for a specific search session on Bing. | Session | Advertising |
SRCHUSR | Stores your preferences for Bing search results, such as language and location. | 1 year | Functional |
Hotjar Tracking code (Details of the cookies can be found here) | |||
_hjSessionUser_{site_id} | Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. | 1 year | Analytics |
_hjHasCachedUserAttributes | Enables us to know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not. | Session | Analytics |
_hjUserAttributesHash | Enables us to know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated. | 2 minutes, extended every 30 seconds | Analytics |
_hjUserAttributes | Stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API. | No explicit expiration | Analytics |
hjViewportId | Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions. | Session | Analytics |
hjActiveViewportIds | Stores user active viewports IDs. Stores an expiration. Timestamp that is used to validate active viewports on script initialization. | 1 minute | Analytics |
_hjClosedSurveyInvites | Ensures the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. | 365 days | Analytics |
_hjDonePolls | Ensures the same Survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. | 365 days | Analytics |
_hjMinimizedPolls | Ensures that the Survey stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. | 365 days | Analytics |
_hjShownFeedbackMessage | Ensures the Feedback widget will load as minimized if the user navigates to another page where it is set to show. | 1 day | Analytics |
Linkedin Insight Tag (Details of the cookies can be found here) | Enables us to promote our business and better understanding our professional audience | ||
bcookie | Used to track the use of embedded services. | 2 years | Advertising |
lang | Used to remember your selected language preference during your time on the site. | Session | Advertising |
lidc | Used to track the use of embedded services. | 24 hours | Advertising |
UserMatchHistory | Used to identity you as a new or returning visitor. | 1 month | Advertising |
BizoID | Used to create a temporary identifier. | 1 month | Advertising |
LiveChat | Provides real-time support and interaction, enhancing user experience. LiveChat stores cookies on the customers' devices to verify their identity and track their interaction with our website. | ||
_lc_cid (customerId) | Verifies the identity of a customer created in LiveChat. | 2 years | Functional |
_lc_cst (customerSecureToken) | Verifies the customer's token. | 2 years | Functional |
_statisticsDat | Stores information about how many times the customer browsed through your page and how many greetings they have seen. | 2 years | Functional |
_customerName | Stores the customer's name, provided either by the pre-chat survey feature or via JavaScript API. | 2 years | Functional |
Salesforce Pardot (More details can be found here) | Tailors and tracks email marketing based on user interests, nurturing, and comprehensive user engagement tracking. | ||
visitor_id<accountid> | The visitor cookie includes a unique visitor ID and the unique identifier for your account. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345 stores the visitor ID 1010101010. The account identifier, 12345, makes sure that the visitor is tracked on the correct Pardot account. The visitor value is the visitor_id in your Pardot account. This cookie is set for visitors by the Pardot tracking code. | 2 years | Analytics |
pi_opt_in<accountid> | If Tracking Opt-in preferences is enabled, the pi_opt_in cookie is set with a true or false value when the visitor opts in or out of tracking. If a visitor opts in, the value is set to true, and the visitor is cookied and tracked. If the visitor opts out or ignores the opt-in banner, the opt-in cookie value is set to false. The visitor cookie is disabled, and the visitor is not tracked. | 2 years | Analytics |
pardot | A session cookie named pardot is set in your browser while you’re logged in to Pardot as a user or when a visitor accesses a form, landing page, or page with Pardot tracking code. The cookie denotes an active session and isn’t used for tracking. | Session | Analytics |
visitor_id<accountid>-hash | The visitor hash cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345-hash stores the hash “855c3697d9979e78ac404c4ba2c66533”, and the account ID is 12345. This cookie is a security measure to make sure that a malicious user can’t fake a visitor and access corresponding prospect information. | 2 years | Analytics |
lpv<accountid> | This LPV cookie is set to keep us from tracking multiple page views on a single asset over a 30-minute session. For example, if a visitor reloads a landing page several times over a 30-minute period, this cookie keeps each reload from being tracked as a page view. | 2 years | Analytics |
SalesLoft (More details can be found here) | Supports sales team in customising follow-ups and engagements based on user interactions | ||
sliguid | Uses in live website tracking to help identify and qualify leads. | 5 years | Analytics |
slireg | Uses in live website tracking to help identify and qualify leads. | 1 week | Analytics |
slirequested | Uses in live website tracking to help identify and qualify leads. | 5 years | Analytics |
site_identity | Uses to better understand your use of our websites | 2 years | Analytics |
YouTube Videos (We use YouTube to show videos on website pages. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages) | These cookies allow the sharing of content on social media channels. | ||
_use_hitbox | This is a randomly generated number that identifies your browser | Session | Analytics |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Lets YouTube count the views of embedded YouTube videos | 9 months | Analytics |
YSC | Sets by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos | Session | Analytics |
GPS | Sets by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location | 30 minutes | Analytics |
IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | 1 year | Advertising |
Teamtailor recruitment software | |||
_tt_session | This cookie is used to keep the context of a visitor (e.g. to keep you logged in on the site) | 2 days | Necessary |
_ttCookiePermission | Used to hide the cookie banner once you have interacted with it | 6 months | Necessary |
HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES
You can adjust the settings on your computer to decline any cookies if you wish. This can easily be done by activating the reject cookies setting on your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from being able to use the website to its fullest.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, before clicking ‘Accept and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. Learn about managing cookies on popular browsers.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this policy or you would like to exercise any data privacy rights, please contact us at dataprotection@astrea-bio.com or write to the following address: Unit 1 Horizon Park, Barton Road, Comberton, Cambridgeshire, CB23 7AJ, UK
Updated on 12 September 2024