What is a Cookie and Why is it Important?
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser/ computer. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies are an essential part of the website technology and without them, web pages would not be functional and useless. For examples, they give websites the ability to remember your login session and preferred language.
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site e.g it enables us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can improve our site and services. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
We may use 'Session' cookies and 'Persistent' cookies on the site. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.
Here is an explanation about what a cookie is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I01XMRo2ESg
About Cookie Consent
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can choose to accept or decline cookies. When you browse our website and that your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret your action as an indication of your consent to accept our cookies. You can modify your browser settings to decline/ disable cookies if you prefer but this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the site and getting the best possible browsing experience.
For more information about turning off cookies, follow this guide at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/
Cookies Categories
Our Cookies are categorised in 4 main sections:
How we use Cookies
Below is a full list of the cookies used on our website:
| Cookie Name |
Purpose of Cookie | Duration | Provider | Category |
| PHPSESSID | The session ID is part of a cookie that is sent to the user browser - it is used to maintain your session as you navigate through the website (our server send cookie using the Set-Cookie header – it contains the ‘HttpOnly’ flag for security purposes). | When browser is closed (session) | beecontact.net | Essential |
| gdprPlugin | This cookie is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on this website. It refers to the settings selected by the user as a preference (JS Cookies). It also prevents the Cookie alert bar from appearing at the bottom of the browser window. |
1 Month | beecontact.net | Essential |
| gdprPluginGroup | This cookie is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on this website. Once you've consented it, your cookies setting is set on the device. | 1 Month | beecontact.net | Essential |
| group_1, group_2, group_3 and group_4 | This cookie is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on this website. Once you've consented it, your cookies setting is set as cookies groups format on the device. | 1 Month | beecontact.net | Essential |
| gdprPluginCountry | This cookie is used to remember if you have consented to the use of cookies on this website based on your country - it detects if you are accessing our website from the EU countries and if that is the case, it shows the Cookie alert bar so that you have the right and control over the cookies setting. | 1 Month | beecontact.net | Essential |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - we use it to prevent spam bots and we have no control over such cookies being set. Normally, this cookie collects website statistics and track conversion rates. | 1 Month | google.com | Essential |
| ANID | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - it is a Google Analytics cookie for tracking and analysing information. | 6 Months | google.com | Performance |
| CGIC | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - it is a Google Analytics cookie to store user preferences and information for tracking and analysing purposes. | 6 Months | google.com | Performance |
| CONSENT | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - we use it to prevent spam bots and we have no control over such cookies being set. It carries out information about how you uses our website, and to save user consent preferences. | 20 Years | google.com | Essential |
| DV | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - it is a Google Analytics cookie to store user preferences and information for tracking and analysing purposes. | 15 Mins | google.com | Essential |
| NID | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - we use it to prevent spam bots and we have no control over such cookies being set. This cookie contains a unique ID, Google use it to remember your preferences and other information such as your preferred language (e.g. English), customise ads on Google on search results page etc. | 6 Months | google.com | Essential |
| SNID | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - it is a Google Analytics cookie for tracking and analysing information. | 6 Months | google.com | Performance |
| _gat | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - we use it to prevent spam bots. This cookie is part of the Google Analytics and it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites | 1 Min | google.com | Performance |
| _ga | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - we use it to prevent spam bots. This cookie is used to uniquely identify you as a visitor to this site. | 2 Years | google.com | Performance |
| _gid | This cookie is set due to reCAPTCHA v2 tool being used on our website - we use it to prevent spam bots. This cookie is used to distinguish you as user to Google as it stores a unique user session identifier. | 1 Day | google.com | Performance |
| _pk_id | This is a analytics cookie to collect and analyse information about how you interact with our websites, this helps to provide better engagement with you so that we can improve our services | 1 Year | matomo.org | Performance |
| _pk_ses | This is a analytics cookie to collect and analyse information about how you interact with our websites, this helps to provide better engagement with you so that we can improve our services | 1 Year | matomo.org | Performance |
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