Cookies are essential for hoord to provide you a secure & user friendly experience, by using hoord you are agreeing to our cookies being stored by your browser. more info
This cookie policy is version 1.00 and is effective from 6th June 2013.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website.
A cookie typically consists of:
A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Hoord uses 4 different classification of cookie:
First Party Cookies
A First party cookie is a cookie created by hoord and is only readable by our site.
Third party cookies
Third party cookies are cookies created by organisations other that hoord, typically these are Analytical or Advertising cookies. Hoord does not use Advertising cookies but we do use Analytical cookies specifically Google Analtyics.
Session cookies
As the name suggests only last until you close your browser. They are not stored on your hard drive. They are usually used to help provide a secure experience, track the pages that you visit so that information can be customised for you for that visit.
Persistent cookies
These are stored on your hard drive until you delete them or they reach their expiry date. These may, for example, be used to remember your preferences when you use the site.
Hoord uses Google Analytics to monitor traffic on our pages, this help us understand how hoord is being used & show us possible ways we can make improvements.
You can find extra information about how Google Analytics here
Safeguarding your data in Google Analytics
Depending on the privacy settings of you browser, cookies will either be stored automatically, ask permission to be stored or be rejected.
You can change the way you browser deals with cookies in your browser settings, however be aware that rejecting some cookies may affect the functionality of hoord.
Here are some links to the cookie support section for popular browsers
Chrome
Manageing cookies in Chrome
Firefox
Manageing cookies in Firefox
Internet Explorer
Manageing cookies in Internet Explorer
Opera
Manageing cookies in Opera
Safari
Manageing cookies in Safari
There are other browsers and device specific version of the browsers listed above where managing cookies maybe be different, if so please do review the browser help section or the developers website.
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What do we use it for? |
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random 32 digit code |
This a first party session cookie that is created when you visit hoord and is used for security purposes. |
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hoordcookies |
This is a first party persistent cookie that is created after you accept our cookie policy, and stops the cookies statement appearing at the top of the page. |
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__utma |
A third party Persistent cookie created by Google Analytics it is valid for 2 years and updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish users and sessions and help us count how many people visit hoord. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. |
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__utmb |
A third party Persistent cookie created by Google Analytics it is valid for 30minutes and updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. We use this cookie to to determine new sessions/visits – that is, individual visits to our site, which may include several different pages or areas of the site. If you don’t do anything for 30 minutes, this cookie expires and a new cookie is set when you begin using the site again. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. |
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__utmc |
A third party Session cookie created by Google Analytics We don’t use this cookie any more: you can delete it if you want to but there’s no risk in leaving it set. |
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__utmz |
A third party Persistent cookie created by Google Analytics it is valid for 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics This cookie stores how people arrive at hoord – for example, from an advertisement campaign or using a partictrar search engine. |